Eno River State Park, North Carolina
(Sunday nights seem to be getting more difficult – the switch from Daylight Saving Time back to Standard Time doesn’t help at all. Moments like this I wish I could get back to places like North Carolina or Ohio or Maine or Wyoming or Washington, either to visit and explore, or more.)
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Brussels
(The Cathedral of St. Michael in Brussels, to be specific. I may have mixed feelings, at best, about churches, but I do love me some great architecture and stained glass.)
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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
(I could be the one hanging under that parachute. You could be the one laughing your ass off on the boat towing it. Or vice versa. We would both have large, fruity alcoholic beverages. It would be warm.)
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Echo Lake, Vermont
(Eleven years and two days ago. Why am I here and not there?)
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Toronto, Canada
(A happy place in a happy city. Thinking of Canada tonight, for reasons.)
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First Landing State Park, Virginia
(I have SUCH a weird, funny, off beat story to tell today that’s just the essence of what the last few weeks have been like – and I’m too freaking tired to even start telling it. Which is also the essence of what the last few weeks have been like.)
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Temecula, CA
(The dawn patrol was worth it for glassy smooth air, a touch of haze, and a tour of the wine country at about 2,000 feet – downwind all the way!)
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Seattle, Washington
(I took the available opportunity & finished “Red Storm Rising” tonight. The thrill of being in that world was great – the letdown after finishing and coming back to this one is not so much.)
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Prague, Czech Republic
(First of what will no doubt be a long series of posts on nights when I want to post something but just don’t have the time or the brain cells to spare. “Someplace Special” is so much more polite than “Places I Would Rather Be Than HERE Tonight!” It should be noted that the correlation between the first set of conditions and the desire to use the second title is extremely high.)
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In Kansas City we bought snacks to carry around on our adventures, chasing holes in the clouds to try to find holes in the sky. (I really will get around to telling all those stories and downloading the video and pictures, but I’m still totally slammed trying to get caught up at the office and at the hangar, and trying to get ready for tomorrow’s “special event,” and there are only so many hours in the day…) Not all of those snacks got eaten. Since we had excess capacity in our baggage allowance (thanks, Southwest Airlines!!) many of the non-perishable snacks got brought home with us for use here.
Today I checked on one of them, a package of Oreo cookies.
It was horrible.
They had been badly smashed and broken. Those poor cookies had been sitting there like that for days, crying, screaming, suffering.
I put them out of their misery.
Every single one of them.
Every fragment.
Every loose dollop of creamy frosting.
It was the only merciful thing to do.
You would have done the same.
You know you would have.
And you would probably feel just as bad about it right now as I do.
If you know what I mean.
We Love The Stars Too Fondly 