In 2011 I traveled 15,000 miles around the US and Canada visiting friends and colleagues I have known through my online work.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 84 Miles Driven: 9569 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 17 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2 Money spent on gas: $2553 Amount of time required to drive 47 miles from Falls Church VA to Baltimore DC: 2.5 hours (frustration: […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog “Excited” is an understatement for how I felt about having the opportunity today to be a guest at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University — like I said today, this was like a baseball fan getting to go to Cooperstown. […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I landed today in Falls Church, VA, at the invite of George Brett, a long time internet colleague who I finally met for the first time in February at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference. He urged me to visit him, so I did– I am. He […]
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You can go back to a place, but you can’t go back. Nor should you want to. But maybe you want to.
On my trip around the East Coast, I have visited bits of my past, e.g where I did my undergrad years (or where I did my undergraduate fun). On plotting today’s odyssey leg from southeastern Pennsylvania to Washington, I noticed my route went very near Thurmont Maryland.
Which is near Cactoctin Mountain Park.
Which us where, almost exactly 25 tears ago (well in 3 weeks), is the place I lost Dominoe in the woods, and she found me.
I hate to come off as an outdoor snob, but on my trip, what many people describe as “camping” is pulling some giant metal box into a parking lot, unrolling the satellite dish, and sleeping inside. At the campground at Glacier National park, a giant ‘bago rolled in, the lights went on, and no one […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Kevin and I go back to Mr Murray’s 9th grade Biology class — and so we sat some 34 years later in his home in State College, PA rejoicing a long lived friendship. And what’s best is that only part of it is reliving the […]
That is 31 years between a photo of me at 17 in my parent’s basement and just last night in my friend’s son’s basement. Much chnages and miles between. But that blonde telecaster is the same as it ever was, a thing that I just enjoyed holding, then and now. I have written up the […]
Today is Sunday, I am reaching for the phone to call Mom (still, forever in my “favorites”), but alas, set it down. My day is brightened. Yesterday while at my friend’s soccer game, I saw a butterfly waft over the field. The #cookielove that started September 4 rolls on — and I keep piling it […]
This first order of business after arriving at Cole Camplese‘s house (past a huge hello hug) was a trip to Otto’s to fill up the fuel tanks for the evening’s activities… cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Well, actually before all this was a round of play in the front yard […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 84 Miles Driven: 8788 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 15 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 2 Money spent on gas: $2313.36 Photos posted: 1829 (that is an average of 21.7 per day) Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9 Number […]
