Florida

Posted by landoman - 26/04/09 at 01:04:39 am

Been a couple weeks since my last post. After I got home, all my fun traveling came to a dead stop for about a week. I spent some time catching up with relatives and friends and then decided that WV sucked and that I needed to leave again. So where else do you go when you’re in such a depressing place? Florida!

Stephen’s family lives just outside of Tallahassee so I took off down this way and spent a few days with them. The weather was much nicer down this way with temperatures in the high 70s and 80s (25-28C). It was a nice change. And I definitely hadn’t re-acclimated to cold weather because I was walking around in long sleeves when it was anything less than 70 (25C). Still do, too. And I somehow sprained a tendon in my foot while running one morning. Go figure, another non-fighting injury. I’m doing something wrong… But a couple nice days with the Adams’ before I met up with my parents who were passing through Tallahassee. They had just come from Texas and through New Orleans as part of Pianafiddle’s tour.

We headed to Orlando and hit Universal Studios. Islands of Adventure opened the year after we were last there so it was a whole new park to explore. With actual roller coasters, too! The Hulk was especially fun. The coaster is almost immediately accelerated out of a tube that launches you over the edge and into a corkscrew. None of that boring clink-clink-clink up a hill. And no time to get that lovely nervous feeling; just straight into terror! After a bit we headed over to the old Universal side. That side of that park is fun, but the nostalgia was shattered after going through the Jaws ride. I remember it so clearly from my younger days…but this time it was such a scripted ride. I guess that’s the downside of being old enough to know what’s going on.

After Orlando we moved on to Juno Beach, just a few minutes above West Palm Beach. The first night there was actually pretty cold (by my standards). We were just a block from the ocean and a front was pushing through that evening. Between the cooler evening temperatures and the cold ocean wind I was definitely feeling out of place. But things warmed up and cleared up for the rest of the week so I was back to normal. Pianafiddle played great concerts in Boca Raton and later in Palm Beach Gardens. And I was able to meet up with a few old work friends on my last night there. A nice time, all in all.

Now I’m back in Tallahasee for a few days, relaxing and trying to figure out what I want to do with my life. It warmed up a lot over the past week and is in the 90s (33C) this weekend! I gave my friend Patrick a call but as luck would have it he was in the process of packing his car and heading home for a couple weeks. Bastard. But I’ve at least had time to think about my future career. Though it hasn’t helped much. I’ve no desire to go back to IT and I’ve been rolling around the idea of journalism, geology, and microbiology (not all at once, of course). I hear Umeå University in Sweden is a pretty fantastic uni. Who knows!

Home

Posted by landoman - 03/04/09 at 12:04:56 pm

Well, I’m home. Back to fast internet again, at least. It feels so surreal being back; like I haven’t been here in years. The flights back were uneventful enough. Nobody interesting sat near me. To make matters worse, my flight from Seoul to Dallas was on an antiquated Boeing 777 that hailed from the days when people could still smoke in their seats (ash trays built in) and therefore was too old to have interactive in-flight entertainment. Flight from hell…

But the icing on the cake? Phuket, Suvarnabhumi (Bangkok), and Dallas are all airports without a drop of free wifi. Apparently these places missed the memo about the 21st century. Pretty disappointing. And quite annoying.

So I’m home and…well, what now?

Coming Home

Posted by landoman - 02/04/09 at 07:04:05 am

So I left for home a few hours ago. Phuket Int’l doesn’t have free wifi and as big and nice as the airport in Bangkok is there isn’t free wifi there either. I’m in Seoul now.

I sat next to a pretty cool Swede named Fredrick on the way to Bangkok. He had been in Phuket for a couple weeks on vacation. We stumbled around the airport for a bit before we each found out where we needed to be and then decided to go to find out gates and meet back for a drink. But my gate ended up being about 2km away behind two security checks. So Fredrick, if by some freak chance you find this blog, sorry dude!

It’s 5C in Seoul and I’m freezing my ass off. Going from 90F to 38F is a huge change. It sucks. No doubt that WV holds certain misery for me…

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