In 2011 I traveled 15,000 miles around the US and Canada visiting friends and colleagues I have known through my online work.
You wont get for down the road if you only look at the rear view window, but it is a good idea to glance at it every now and then. It is almost 5 months since writing about the odyssey I am on and my leaving my job after 5 years at the NMC. There […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Without some large foundation funding to pay my AT&T bill, here in Canada I am SOL for doing life ds106 radio broadcasts from the road. But on the drive yesterday to Regina from Saskatoon, I decided to record a short audio recording. Here are some […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 48 Miles Driven: 50905 5095 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 9 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: 1 Money spent on gas: $1132.56 Photos posted: 1247 (that is an average of 26.0 per day) Number of nights in hotels/B&B: 9 […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve spent an enjoyable evening visiting George Siemens in Edmonton= happy accident as the original plan was to meet mid afternoon for coffee and I was going to truck on to North Battleford to meet Rob Wall, but I was late getting to town– I […]
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Damn, Canada is a big place. I’m 10 days in, and thought maybe I was 1/3 the way, but looking at this map (pink is where I have been, green where I think I am going) I am lucky if I have traversed a quarter of the Great Baconated North. Heck, Looking at where I am now in Calgary, I am not even east of where I started in Arizona!
Beyond the weekly stats, the blogging here has been light, I know (and my Mom has told me so on the phone). The results are clear, no blogging and the peeps go away:
One obvious insight so far is when I was at home how much time I got to not only blog, but also to read and stay in tune with my networks. With some days of being on the road 8, 10 hours, and then wanting to spend time visiting with the people I am seeing– well, the blogging has slid down the list, but my most reliable updates are daily (network providing) photos at http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog.
But I am damned if I will apologize for not blogging. I may slow down, but will never stop, and when I do get some time, look at, there is a backlog lined up.
Yet, that was not the goal when I started typing in this box, it is to try and get some thanks in to all of the people I have gotten to spend time with on the Canada leg, this stretch special because there are among the friends I have known the longest online. Plus I have had blue sky weather the whole way.
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog (All blogging etc has been held up due to long hours behind the wheel or just enjoying the time not tethered to a computer) Number of days on the road: 42 Miles Driven: 4131 Number of States/Provinces driven in: 7 Number of US/Canadian Border Crossings: […]
My scrambling of the title of this book I just finished means nothing, or maybe it does represent my confidence of understanding. ZatAoMM is certainly among the Books I Ought to Have Read but Didn’t, and served as a perfect early book of reading while on the road. The heady philosophy parts are still muddy […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Number of days on the road: 35 Miles Driven: 3790 Number of States driven in: 6 Number of Islands Slept On: 1 (Whidbey Island, WA) Money spent on gas: $793.40 Photos posted: 882 (that is an average of 25.2 per day) ds106 Mile marker Photos: […]
Here is another one from the Department of Internet Serendipity, where I am fortunate enough to have a mail slot. I got to Seattle yesterday, with a plan for a quiet catch up night at a non-descript airport hotel as I wait for my girlfriend to fly in tomorrow (now today) (now soon). That act […]
July 24 is a bitter sweet memory here at the Dog House, that being the day in 1993 that I made the dreadful decision to put Dominoe to sleep, the faithful dog who traveled cross country with me form Baltimore to Phoenix, who tagged along on my excursions up and down the west, and whose […]
