The answer is 135 (in case you were wondering)
Westbound, JFK to SFO. I fished through my pockets for receipts from the trip, and only have one: GHc 42 – about $21, for dinner that first night on the […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
The Future, Plus Noodles and Rice
I have to capture this moment, right now, right in the thick of it. Papers and mobile phones are strewn across the floor amid Styrofoam cartons of take-out noodles and […]
Mr. Duncan and the Cats
This is a story told to me by my friend Peter Dolan. It isn’t a story about Africa, but I was telling it to someone as we inched through traffic, […]
This is the story of how we begin to remember…
[from yesterday, late in the flight] I didn’t feel it this time. Strange – that thing I call “the magic of departures”, the moment when the carousel of the journey […]
Three Crazy Days
Crazy week already, and it’s only just starting. Sun’s coming up, somewhere over the Atlantic. My watch says it’s 7:45, but that’s miles and hours ahead, in Accra. Back home […]
Test Pilot
It was not an auspicious start to the morning. Tiptoeing downstairs in the pre-dawn dark to avoid disturbing anyone, I misjudged the last step and clattered down to the landing on […]
And was Jerusalem builded here…?
And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? On a day like this, it’s […]
This Story Doesn’t End the Way You’d Expect
Or maybe it does – I don’t know. Those of you who know me better than I know myself (and you know who you are!) will have to weigh in […]
Short Final
“Hold it, hold it…. airspeed… airspeed… hold it…hold…I’ve got the [whump] controls!” The only thing I can imagine more disheartening to a student pilot’s ears than “I’ve got the controls” […]
Inarticulate
A few words on flying the Spitfire: Wwww….bbbb…wwww…bb…wow. Okay, let me rephrase that: a few inarticulate syllables on flying the Spitfire. There’s no way I’m going to be able to […]
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