Trip to St. Louis
Kyle came up with the idea – we’d all go to St. Louis to attend Pat’s daughter’s wedding. Pat and Kyle were best friends growing up, and Pat’s family and our family were the...
End of summer travels
After a blistering period of work through spring and summer, I began to make plans to take some time off. I was still in Kabul, finishing up a final project report there and also...
Kabul Confidential
Oh, yeah, right, like I have anything interesting to report from Kabul. If I want to be important, daring, bold, or devil-may-care, everyone else here has long since beaten me to it. There’s an...
Be my Pakistani Valentine
Kyna and I in our shalwar kameezes. She introduced me to her many adoring friends in Islamabad. Gul Nawaz, the guard is at the right – he’s great, funny, and misses 85% of what...
Thanksgiving family edition
This will be my longest blog yet – tons of fun with Kyle, Maureen, Lauren, Dad and the cats in Alaska for Thanksgiving. Kyle and Maureen live in a beautiful high-ceilinged house near Palmer...
The Great Circle Map
These are my flights so far this year, totalling 128,674 miles. The Internet is very cool! More soon from Alaska…