vacation

A Jaunt to Utah and Back

Can you take a jaunt on an airplane? Probably not, if you consider the delays involved sometimes. Jaunts shouldn’t include unforeseen setbacks. Not that this one was particularly egregious. Just three hours more in Chicago than I’d’ve liked to spend. In any case, Denisa and I went out on Tuesday and were back on Sunday. […]

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The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

Before I bought my tickets for Scotland, I had no real idea what to expect there. I didn’t know much about the country other than kilts and bagpipes. I soon discovered that going to Scotland in August–anywhere in Scotland–is somewhat problematic, because everyone and their brother comes to Scotland in August due to the Edinburgh

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Off to Scotland

A heads up that I’m heading off to Scotland on Sunday, so the blog posts are going to be . . . non-existent while I’m gone. What am I going to be up to? Some of it is business: it’s the World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow next weekend. The rest of it will be

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