As I was driving from Chicago to Columbus in a driving rainstorm at 4:00 this morning, I got to tallying up my 2008 travels…or…er…travails to the West Coast. Four trips so far in 2008 — three to California, one to Victoria, British Columbia — and none of them were for more than two nights (two [...]

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This is my “Trip from Hell” tale. It’s my own fault. To a point. (And it’s not over yet.)
On fairly short notice a couple of weeks ago, I decided to make a one-night trip to San Francisco this week to attend a user group/product feedback meeting with one of my company’s key technology partners. Yes, [...]

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It’s been two weeks since our last post. Excuses galore:

My parents were in town (we kept them busy)
I headed to Austin for a week
Our digital camera has gone missing

The last point is the real kicker. It’s got two or three sets of pictures that prompted Julie to exclaim, “I’m definitely going to blog THAT!” (she [...]

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Tim’s departure from Dripping Springs: 1:55 AM (CDT), Saturday morning
Arrival in Dublin, OH: 10:22 PM (EDT), Saturday evening
Google trip time estimate: 19h 42m
Actual trip time: 19h 27m
That’s a variance of 1.3% by my reckoning, which ain’t bad!
Unfortunately, Molly didn’t take off either time that I let the dogs out of the truck for a potty/water [...]

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