cyberhobo

Month: November 2006

  • Pit Stop

    Mile 957. A remote Nevada rest area provides a perfect midday refreshment opportunity. With the help of the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches I brought, we’re ready to shoot for Oregon.

  • Registration and Muffin in Elko

    Mile 729. Pete has an appointment to register for his spring semester classes online at 10 am, so we stop in Elko at the Red Lion Hotel & Casino. There we find some internet terminals at the Starbucks, so Pete buys a blueberry muffin. While he’s making the token purchase an employee sits at the…

  • Lulu’s

    Mile 679. We stop for gas in Wells. I’m tempted by Lulu’s Espresso Shop across the street. Once inside, we see by the employee T-shirts that we’ve entered Lulu’s Espresso, Cafe, and Gentlemen’s Club. A short, squat, aging blond with a crew cut makes me the worst cappucino I’ve ever tasted. It would have been…

  • Daybreak on the Great Salt Lake

    Mile 537. We sleep in the car at a familiar rest stop in Utah, wake up before dawn, and are well on our way to the great salt flats by sunrise. Thoughts of the first meal of the trip begin to occupy our minds.

  • I-80 Closed (Storm #1)

    Mile 367. Between Rock Springs and Evanston the weather gets snowy. There are a few signs warning that the road is closed at Fort Bridger. I keep driving until an endless line of motionless trucks appears. A few people bail, driving the wrong way down the shoulder until it’s possible to cross to other side.…

  • A Road Trip Begins

    Mile 0. Pete arrives, having traveled by train from Chicago, in a rented Chevy Malibu. We have ambitious plans to drive to Oregon to commemorate our 1996 Pacific Crest Trail hike, and the pacts associated with it. We really have no idea if the amount of driving we plan is even possible, but we figure…

  • Gradient

    Is it possible to capture the perfect gradient of an Indian Summer twilight? For each color caught, how many are missed? Where is the touch of warm November air on the skin? How do the dry leaves smell as they begin their atonement with the earth?

  • Movie: Inside Man (2006)

    Following in the footsteps of Dog Day Afternoon is a tall order, and this film steps up to the plate. I didn’t mind the inevitable social commentary added by Spike Lee – after all, Dog Day is all about social commentary. There are the obligatory references and homages, and a reasonably fresh plot. Pretty good…

  • Arthur’s Rock

    Sean joins us for a jaunt up to Arthur’s Rock, a hike he hasn’t done yet. Ann has been working overtime, and none of us have been getting outside as much as we’d like. This feels like stepping into heaven for a couple of hours. We soak up all we can to keep us going…

  • Geo Mashup 0.5.2 Release

    More minor updates to the WordPress plugin. Get it on the download page. Added a setting for whether to automatically open the center marker info window. Removed logging that caused errors in IE. Added a hook for custom map operations in custom-marker.js, example in custom-marker-sample.js. Fixed an error when no page slugs are found. Changed…