Travel

71 posts

Question About Travel Adapters for iPhones

I'm looking for some advice, friends. █████ and I will be traveling in France and Italy this summer. We are reasonably experienced world travelers, which of course means we have a small collection of electrical power adapters and transformers. Our last overseas trip, though, was three years ago, and

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By: William Shunn

Workshops Days Three Through Six

I was going to catch up on more of the week at the workshop yesterday, but Michael Jackson died and took Farrah Fawcett and most of the internet with him. You live on earth. You know. On Tuesday, Brad Beaulieu made us all eggs benedict with crabmeat for breakfast. This

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Workshop Day One

The first official day of Starry Heaven went very well, I thought. We critiqued the first four of our twelve first-fifties. (For those curious, we spend the first three days looking at the first fifty pages of everyone's novel, on the theory that those pages have to be

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Sparkly Heaven

In other news, I arrived today in Flagstaff, Arizona, to attend the Starry Heaven novel workshop! I'm here with my poor half-finished novel Technomancers, which I hope my fellow workshoppers give a swift kick in the ass. I was hoping that at 70,000 words I'd

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Overheard at the Breakfast Counter

Old man: "Where are you going?" Waitress: "India." Old man: "Have you seen Slumdog?" Waitress: "No." Old man: "You need to see Slumdog." Waitress: "I'm not going to that part of India." Old man: "Every

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By: William Shunn

In London

Having a great time. Have seen ❦fjm and ❦secritcrush and ❦grahamsleight. Now at crypt of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. More later, and photos.

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By: William Shunn

Varying the 'Stache

The morning I found out about the AC/DC ticket snafu, I was very upset. Finding replacement tickets on StubHub helped, but didn't lift my (back in) black mood. It took a special delivery to accomplish that. What arrived in the mail was a Sinclair Edwardian club collar

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Down to London

So, if we were going to London next week on the cheap, what sorts of things should we not miss that guidebooks would not tell us about?

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The End of Summer

Obsessing about politics is not all I've been up to lately. First and foremost, if you hadn't divined it from cryptic postings or from status messages on Facebook and Twitter, █████ and I are moving again this month. Not a huge move, just up to the northern

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By: William Shunn

The Curse of the Second Pyramid!

Just when you thought it was safe to come back to my blog, I'm going to start talking about Egypt again. I've been uploading more of our Flip Videos to YouTube, and here's one █████ took of me just after (as I've mentioned

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Borderline Retarded

We knew that Friday, May 30, as another long travel day, was going to suck. We just didn't know yet how badly it was going to suck. Over dinner the evening before, Ra'ed had broken the news to us that there would be yet another change

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Rose Red City, Half As Old As Time

Petra is an ancient city established in what is now Jordan in the 6th century B.C. by a tribe called the Nabateans. The city inhabits an extensive valley defended by a narrow canyon called the Siq. The Nabateans carved open channels into the canyon walls to bring irrigation water

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