And Sometimes it All Comes Together
It’s a wonderful feeling to spend days out on the ramp with the Collings folks, talking with kids, talking with veterans, helping guide people through the planes and sharing that […]
Once More, With Feeling
We’re sitting around the bar at the Best Western, and I’m trying to ignore the ever-present TVs blaring overhead. They seem to be everywhere here, in the lobbies and hallways […]
Maybe Tomorrow
So, remember that prediction about becoming very grumpy? We did manage another short hop three days ago, but since then, every day has been staring up at the sky thinking […]
In Which The Weather Gods Taunt Me Again
Last time I was out in Florida to get my P-51 checkout, we got in almost two days of flying before the weather shut us down. I had my procedures […]
And Away We Go
It’s been close to three months since my last Roadtrip post, and that one wasn’t even about me. This should not be surprising: it’s been a full four months since […]
A Thanksgiving on Planet Tokyo, 1987
It was late November in 1987, in a cramped studio apartment lost in the urban sprawl west of Tokyo, that I realized Socrates was wrong. Hunger, Cicero had quoted him […]
Chalk up One More Lost Soul
I love telling the story about how – how many years ago was it? – Beth and I were sitting there on the floor of a friend’s house and I […]
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 […]
That’s All, Folks
And just like that, we’re done. I woke this morning at 3:00 a.m. to the sound of flat water moving past the hull, and a blissful lack of pings from […]
Under the Hood
For the past month, we’ve been living in an enormous machine, transported and sustained by massive, magical contraptions that hum and whir in the mysterious caverns beneath our feet. These […]
David Pablo Cohn 