April 2010
9 posts
The Apple of Death, Bret Michaels, Brain...
We left on our On the 10s Road Trip almost two weeks ago (on April 13!), and we have had many, many adventures, many of which I have not yet blogged about because I haven’t found the time! The blog posts about our adventures post-New Mexico will be coming in the days ahead. Our blogging in real-time has been complicated by, you know, actually having the adventures. It was further...
Top Ten I-10 Road Trip Tips, by Susan C. Kim
(Our friend Eric Barker has a friend Susan C. Kim, who we asked for travel tips as we road trip <a href=”http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/on-the-10s-tour“>on the 10s tour</a>. Thank you Susan for this wonderful reply!!!) Advice on driving the 10? Well, I’ve never done it, but I can say: 1. Don’t sleep at rest stops at night 2. If you do, lock your car—and...
Top 10 things on the 10s: Tucson and New Mexico.
We woke up early on Day 2 of our On the 10s Tour, and headed out from Phoenix to Tucson for breakfast and a visit to Saguaro National Park. The rest of the day was spent uneventfully racking up the miles through New Mexico and a little bit of Texas, which we drove into this morning at midnight. This post is dedicated to the thousands of bugs who gave their lives to decorate our windshield… ...
Top 10 things on the 10s: LA and Phoenix.
In accord with the theme of our On the 10’s road trip, we’ll be blogging our Top 10 observations every day, yay! Before we do, BIG THANKS to Jessica Guynn of the LA Times for writing about our Road Trip as we were driving through LA! Now, on to the Top 10 list. First leg: Palo Alto to the start of Interstate 10 in Santa Monica to Phoenix. 1. Pizzeria Bianco. Allegedly the best...
On the 10s Tour.
I’m sick of death. I’m sick of unemployment. I’m sick of the crappy economy. We’re a quarter into 2010. It’s time to do something completely different. Like drive the 10, coast to coast, from Santa Monica, California, to Jacksonville, Florida. Yes, we should do that. 10 days. 10 wireless devices. 10 internet services. 10 states (if you count Texas as 3 states,...
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Death Panda.
The past week I’ve been thinking a lot about Death — about missing those who’ve left us, about feeling the pain of their departures, about grieving and how to overcome grief, about why we die, about what we should do about the things we never had a chance to say or do. In short, I’ve been a “Death Panda”, repeatedly thinking about these five tenets: 1. Missing...
My bucket list.
1. <a href=”http://ifindkarma.posterous.com/life-goal-fly-to-chengdu-and-hug-pandas“>HUG PANDAS!</a> 2. Drive <a href=” View Larger Map “>On the 10s</a>, coast to coast.3. Stay at Yosemite between Labor Day and Halloween on at least one occasion.4. Take a private jet to Hattiesburg, Mississippi so that for once it doesn’t take an entire...
Life is... delicious ambiguity.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -<a href=”http://www.wisdomquotes.com/000978.html>Gilda...
Eulogy for Bob.
It is with deep sadness that I write about the passing yesterday of my great friend of 16 years, Bob. He was an exceptional friend and cat, and I cannot stop thinking about him and his life, and how much better my life was because of him. He shared in my happiness often, and he absorbed my pain when I needed him most.Was it only last Wednesday that I wrote that every aneurysm is a reminder that...
