Go Time
I’ve always loved that moment of disorientation, in the dark of a movie theater, right after the previews have ended. You’ve been barraged by lights and sounds of half a […]
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Okay, This Is Nice
[Part Three, in which a miracle occurs\h\h\h\h\h\h\David and Devon actually catch that series of flights, sit a butt-numbing number of hours in the seats of different airliners, and pop out […]
Plan B
Plan A had us spending Friday night in the luxury of Row 9 of American Airlines Flight 953, sipping an aperitif prior to settling in for the night in our […]
Showtime, Part II
Just a short note here, so as not to keep everyone wondering: we made it to the ship about as uneventfully as could be imagined. A small mountain of paperwork […]
The Days Fly By…
Is that five days already? Dang – I barely got started back into my summer reading. Rounded out a short story, got more than a smidge of work done, finished […]
If You Want to Hear the Gods Laugh…
The plan was that within a few hours of now, I’d be settling in behind my old desk below deck on the icebreaker, down at the end of Muelle Prat […]
New Story: Jaguar
The man on the bus said he had to tell me. I figured he just had to tell anyone who would listen. And I figured that, as the only gringo […]
End of the Road
“Well, I thought the highway loved me, but she beat me like a drum,” -Jason Isbell
I’m on the last leg of over 24 hours on airplanes, coming back from a month and a half […]
The Road to El Calafate
About this time last night, I was walking into town from the ship, guitar over my shoulder, eagerly anticipating my first chance to lie down on something that didn’t spend […]
Torres del Paine, in Two Stories
I want to tell you two stories about yesterday. There’s the story about the lousy bus connections and dodgy weather. About the hostel with mediocre, overpriced food. The steep, muddy […]
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