Necessary Roughness

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Archive for the 'travel' Category

Extended Stay vs. Hotels
Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Thursday night or Friday you will see a Hotel Report about the place I am staying in, which is an extended stay hotel. You’ll get the specifics then, but the general differences deserve a post of their own.
I usually do not like extended stay hotels. Housekeeping usually doesn’t make the bed every day or take [...]

A Day in L.A.
Sunday, March 30th, 2008

For my day off I drove down to Los Angeles and Hollywood.
My first stop was the Hard Rock Cafe in Hollywood. I got there right at opening and got really good service. The waitress informed me that the Los Angeles location was temporarily shut down; the landlord had raised the rent, and the HRC [...]

Cranach: Secular Liturgies
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

Dr. Veith over at Cranach linked to a Washington Post column that notes that there is a pattern, dare he say, a liturgy, about the way politicians reveal their wrongdoing to the public. The comments are great, as they cover Little League, kids in trouble at school, the birthday party, and the wedding reception.
I give [...]

Stuck in Denver
Friday, March 7th, 2008

I’d had some warning that the weather was going to be rough in Columbus, so I spent some of my few United miles and got a First Class ticket. The first leg, from Sacramento to Denver, went fine, and I got some cool pictures from the window of the airplane:
When I got to Denver, the [...]

Great San Francisco Day!
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

I met Lutheran Lucciola and her husband for an awesome tour of San Francisco. She has written a great post about the day’s happenings. I took over 40 pictures, uploading the best to the gallery.
San Francisco looked great with its parks, cable cars, and bridges, but the homes completely overgrew the island like Coruscant in [...]