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Welcome to Road Trip USA
Welcome to Road Trip USA
07/31/2004 05:02 PMWelcome to Road Trip USA
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07/31/2004 02:12 AM
Road Trip USA. This
simply titled site is one of the better travel sites I have seen for
back-road ramblings around the USA. Not only are the routes described
some of the best, the writing is extensive (at least book length), of
high quality and obviously by someone who has traveled every single
mile personally. I only wish I had it on my last trip. Recommended for
the arm-chair or car-seat traveler alike.
The Road Trip Effect 1.3
The Road Trip Effect 1.3
03/29/2005 05:06 PMCreate video travel logs of the places you visit.
Concorde makes road trip 'home'
Concorde makes road trip 'home'
04/19/2004 07:06 AMScotland's Concorde arrives at its final destination, the Museum of
Flight in East Lothian.
Kerry Campaign Begins 21-State Road Trip
Kerry Campaign Begins 21-State Road Trip
07/30/2004 10:19 AMThe question for Democrats now is whether the convention boosted Mr.
Kerry’s standing with the American public.
Son of Road Trip - TomTom Navigator
Bluetooth GPS reviewed
Son of Road Trip - TomTom Navigator
Bluetooth GPS reviewed
08/23/2004 02:25 PMPocket PC Thoughts Aug 23 2004 6:12PM GMT
Christopher Coppola's road trip espresso
machine
Christopher Coppola's road trip espresso
machine
06/23/2004 07:16 PMBoingBoing reader Nora read our current guestblogger's post about a
super-rad mobile espresso maker that plugs in to your car's cigarette
lighter. She was inspired to do some googlesleuthing, and says:
"I needed to find the Millennium Coffeebreak Car espresso maker that
Christopher Coppola talked about. Wooden spoons from Italy, Coffee mug
art from Alessandro Bartolozzi. Plus french presses, frothers and
funnels. Espresso is a beautiful thing."
Playa lattes, ahoy!
Link to Caffe Tucano
Text Messaging Destroys The Family Road
Trip
Text Messaging Destroys The Family Road
Trip
07/27/2004 02:51 PMFirst it was people complaining that kids watching DVDs in the
backseat were killing the spirit of the "family road trip," but now
you don't even need a fancy expensive in-car entertainment system to
lose out on all the joy of family bonding (fighting) in the car.
Textuall
y is pointing to a story saying that
kids in the UK spend
a good portion of time text messaging their friends during road
trips. They also prefer to listen to music, rather than actually talk
with their family, but I imagine that's been true since the walkman
first came on the scene.
Reader Request -- Historical Places for
Road Trip
Reader Request -- Historical Places for
Road Trip
03/20/2003 08:31 AMBlogging the US Inside BBC News Online's
US election road trip
Blogging the US Inside BBC News Online's
US election road trip
09/10/2004 07:10 AMBBC Sep 10 2004 11:50AM GMT
Red Sox Trip Tigers 5-3 (AP)
Red Sox Trip Tigers 5-3 (AP)
08/27/2004 10:42 PMAP - Manny Ramirez singled and scored before leaving with a bruised
knee, and the streaking Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers 5-3
Friday night for their 10th victory in 11 games.
Field Trip
Field Trip
01/30/2004 03:07 PMGet out of the house with this week's educational freeware. You'll be
going places and learning new things.
Join me for my informative and entertaining picks in this week's Freeloader Friday.
Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign
"Acid trip 1"
"Acid trip 1"
01/07/2004 06:08 PMThe trip has continued
The trip has continued
03/13/2003 10:20 AMHi The trip is now on is 17th day. Sorry for not keeping You updated,
but we have literally been...
Trip Mapping with PHP
Trip Mapping with PHP
11/07/2002 08:59 PM
Do PHP and cartography go together? David Sklar thinks so. In this
article from the PHP Cookbook coauthor, he demonstrates how to plot
your trips with PHP and census data.
The trip has begun
The trip has begun
03/13/2003 10:20 AMHi there A travel letter from Cape Town, South Africa. The airplane
companies are not funny... The problems started right...
acid trip
acid trip
01/07/2004 02:01 PM acid
trip wow.
[ via newstoday ] $10 raffle for a trip to Zero G
$10 raffle for a trip to Zero G
04/05/2005 04:48 PMXeni Jardin:
Yuri's Night founder,
recently minted
3D science movie star, and astrobiologist
Loretta
Hidalgo tells Boing Boing:
The industrious kids at MIT are raffling off a trip to Ft Lauderdale
to ride Zero-G's 727 microgravity jet. The organizer is a member of
Zero G Corp.'s flight crew. Everyone always tells him they wish they
could fly in zero gravity, too -- so he created a raffle so that one
of them could!
Included in the prize: airfare (based on a R/T to the takeoff site in
Ft. Lauderdale on Song airlines from Boston), and hotel. The raffle is
need-not-be-present-to-win so anyone in the US can enter. Drawing will
held on Saturday April 9th [extended] on April 16th.
The organizer is Stephen Steiner, an MIT Grad Student in Material
Science and an Aerogel genius. He can be reached at ssteiner [at]
transuranium.com.
Link to raffle details.
Previously on BB:
James Cameron's new 3D film Aliens of the Deep, and
Zero G -- Xeni's Wired News and NPR reports. Image: Xeni on a Zero
G flight during which Loretta was a crew member (shot by Jim Campbell)
Short Trip to Bombay?
Short Trip to Bombay?
08/23/2004 02:34 PMBombay's been stinking for a while, but it can always get worse.
Short trip to Japan
Short trip to Japan
04/09/2004 04:00 PMHi folks well I am off to Japan tomorrow for a few days and will be
back here in Hawaii...
New York Trip report
New York Trip report
06/01/2004 12:49 AMHere's what I learned on my trip to New York City:
- the old Continental-powered Piper Malibu is a lot quieter and
smoother than the newer Lycoming-powered Piper Mirage (flew down from
Boston in a couple of for-sale Malibus)
- the Petra exhibit at the Museum of Natural History is
inspirational--it might be time to take a leaf from Indiana Jones's
book and head over to Jordan
- there are several good shows at the Metropolitan, as usual
- the Whitney Biennial was one of the best in a long time. At
least 20 percent of the works were charmingly creative. The show
just ended but it might still be worth taking a trip to the
Whitney because they've concentrated the best of their permanent
collection on the fifth floor and also brought in some Thomas Hart
Benton murals from Connecticut. [If you want to get into the
Biennial for 2006 just take a page from one of Edward Tufte's books
and blow it up to wall size, then reverse it and stick it next to the
first enlargement... that's what one of the artists in the exhibit had
done.. without credit to Tufte.]
- the RM seafood restaurant on 60th between Madison and Park is
fantastic and for the summer does a weekday $20 3-course lunch
menu that is as good as any meal I've had in Boston at any price, www.rmseafood.com
- seeing Shrek 2 with a 4-year-old girl is fun but the
movie is disappointing after Shrek 1.
No New York experience is complete without at least one cabbie
story. The fellow who drove me to LaGuardia Airport was a Coptic
Christian from Egypt (the Copts are the descendants of the original
Egyptians who built the pyramids, etc.; after the Arab invasion of 640
A.D. they've survived as a minority within their ancient
homeland). Fully trained as a lawyer in Egypt, he came to the
U.S. 12 years ago. "The Muslims were making it harder and harder
for Christians to survive. I was just starting out so I decided
to start in the U.S. Of course the situation in Egypt is much
worse now for Copts than it was back then." He couldn't work
here as a lawyer easily because Egyptian law is based on the
Napoleonic code rather than cases. "I got a degree in networking
from NYU and worked at a French bank in mid-town until 2001 when they
downsized their IT department." Since then he has been driving a
cab. How does he like living in New York compared to
Egypt? "I came here to escape the Muslims but now they are
coming to America. They may appear to accept American values but
15 years from now you'll see that they haven't. They can't
stop fighting Christians and they hate the West because it represents
Christianity. Americans don't understand anything about
Islam."
Suggestions for a trip to Portugal?
Suggestions for a trip to Portugal?
03/17/2005 03:24 AMI'm considering a trip to Portugal on Friday March 25. A
friend is coming with me and she has to return on Sunday April
3. I have more flexibility and could stay on. Some
questions for Portugal veterans...
- Is the end of March a nice time of year to be in Portugal?
- Can one stay the whole eight days in one hotel in Lisbon and make
day trips or would it be better to stay in several different places
(and, if so, what are one or two favorite places)?I don't want to
spend too much time in transit.
- If we are going to be moving around, is it best to rent a
car?
Thanks for the help!
On my upcoming trip to San Francisco...
On my upcoming trip to San Francisco...
06/17/2005 03:22 PMSo here's the plan - I'm flying to San Francisco on Saturday and
I'll be hanging around until the 26th with all my geek hipster
friends. But don't take that to mean that I'm busy all the time - I'm
keen as ever to see (and meet) as many neat people as possible. When I
go to San Francisco, I normally try and set up some kind of drunken
evening at the Tonga Room - because the rain and the thunder
and the tiki stylings and the lounge act are all so cool. But I am
also aware that the cocktails are terrible and that maybe I've
milked the experience as much as I can. So, guys, does anyone have any
better ideas?
While I'm at it, I might as well put out another call - are there
any glorious geek events, any particularly cool exhibitions or bars
that I'd regret not going to? It's not every day I get a full week in
my spiritual homeland to reconnect with the mothership. So what should
I be doing?
Of course, no trip comes without its inconveniences, and this one
is particularly poignant - while I'm on the flight to SFO I'll be
missing the big reveal in the final episode of Doctor Who. This is doubly
galling since I'm currently enduring hundreds of lunatic comments on
my Doctor Who and Bad Wolf post. Regular
visitors to the site may be getting bored of hearing about this, but
things are way out of control - the post has received seven
hundred comments as of now, and sometimes they come in at the rate
of one or two a minute. The whole thing's starting to remind me of Kottke's
famous Matrix meltdown. All of which is a roundabout way of saying
don't spoil it for me until I've got my hands on a copy.
Anyway, as of this evening, I'm either in pre-flight limbo or stuck
in some terminal interzone, and I'm hoping to take the opportunity to
catch up with all the notes and writing I've been doing recently but
haven't had a chance to post to my site. So more later...
Why I haven't bl0gged about by trip to
Iceland
Why I haven't bl0gged about by trip to
Iceland
09/10/2004 11:27 AMSimple. No connection. I tried keeping a paper blog on my trip to
Iceland. But it didn't really work out. Frankly, it was mostly crap.
Then again, when I read my older entries, 90% of them are crap, too.
(Which is normal, according to Sturgeon's
Law).
When you write a blog entry, you just write it and fire. You don't go
back and re-edit. Once you publish it, there's no taking it back.
It's there in the Google cache, and in the Internet Archive forever.
And if it was important to someone, it will be dug up. There's
surprisingly little entropy in the Internet.
But that's actually cool. You see, this kind of a writing style
forces you to write better the next time. You just can't go
back and tinker with your text until you're happy with it. You have
to learn to let
go of your creation, so that you don't just keep doing the same
old stuff all over again. So you learn.
The internet allows us to produce more crap than ever before. But at least we'll be better at doing
it. :)
A Weekend Trip Where I Don't Have to
Explain My Job
A Weekend Trip Where I Don't Have to
Explain My Job
09/11/2004 01:04 PMI'm at O'Reilly Media's F
oo Camp this
week, a weekend tech-folk retreat at O'Reilly's Sebastopol offices.
Lots of old friends from EFF, iBiblio, MusicBrainz, Mozilla, OSAF, BBC and more, plus plenty of new
acquaintances. I'm a bit awed by the crowd and just doing a lot of
listening and learning.
All Aboard! But Don't Relax. Your Trip
Is Already Over.
All Aboard! But Don't Relax. Your Trip
Is Already Over.
04/22/2004 09:12 AMShanghai's new magnetic levitation train, the world's first in
commercial service, can reach a speed of 268 m.p.h.
Cat Survives 30-Day Trip in Shipping Box
(AP)
Cat Survives 30-Day Trip in Shipping Box
(AP)
04/15/2004 01:06 AMAP - A business owner opening a shipment of 400 bird cages sent from
China got an additional order he didn't expect — a severely
undernourished cat.
Thoughts on Cleveland Trip
Thoughts on Cleveland Trip
05/02/2004 10:21 PMI had fun this weekend in Cleveland. I haven't had a chance to post
(or even upload) the 200+ pictures taken with my camera yet. Kasia
really wants a crack at fixing some of 'em up anyway (she's good with
the Photoshop, unlike me). So, until you can see photos of
semi-drunken people you don't know in dark places you don't know, I
leave you with a few things from this weekend. It's possible to get
nearly a dozen people...
Photos from the Thanksgiving Trip
Photos from the Thanksgiving Trip
12/17/2004 06:35 PMPhotos from my small airplane trip down the East Coast for
Thanksgiving are available at
ht
tp://philip.greenspun.com/images/200411-thanksgiving-trip/ (a
lso 100+ unedited (bleah) pix of some young cousins at
http:/
/philip.greenspun.com/images/200411-frankel-girls/ ).
All of these were taken with a Canon EOS 20D and 16-35/2.8L or
70-200/2.8L IS lenses, recently purchased from
Adorama.
Trip to Argentina from December 10-31
Trip to Argentina from December 10-31
01/07/2004 04:18 PMI decided to push back the round-the-world trip and instead spend
December in Argentina. My flights into and out of Buenos Aires
are fairly fixed but everything else is open and I would appreciate
suggestions. Here's the plan so far...
Dec 10: leave Boston.
Dec 11: arrive Buenos Aires at
10:07 am
Dec 12,13: sightseeing B.A.
Dec 14: Sunday trip
to Colonia, Uruguay via ferry
Dec 15: leave B.A. for Iguazu
Falls, stay at fancy Sheraton with view
of falls?
Dec 17:
fly from Iguazu Falls to Bariloche (Lake District), rent car
Dec
25: fly to Ushuaia (the southernmost town in Argentina), take a
few tours
Dec 31: fly from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires in time to
catch 10:55 pm
flight to Miami
Thoughts?
Japan trip report
Japan trip report
08/22/2004 06:09 AMItinerary: Narita-Nikko-Sendai-Northeast Coast
(Matsuhima-Shizugawa-Taro-Kuji-Mutsu)-ferry from Oma to
Hakodate-Toyako-Sapporo-Asahikawa-Sounkyo-Ikeda-Kushiro-Akanko-Mashuko
-Otaru-Niseko-ferry from Hakodate to
Aomori-Hirosaki-Morioka-Hiraizumi-Ichinoseki-Utsunomiya-Tokyo
Akasaka
Favorite roadside attractions:
- 70m-high statue of the Buddhist bosatsu Kannon in Kamaishi on the
NE coast of Honshu
- Snow Museum, which could easily have been designed by Liberace, in
Asahikawa (Hokkaido)
- two enormous Japanese Cranes having a late lunch in a farmer's
field on the SE coast of Hokkaido then taking off, circling, and
landing in another corner of the farm; there are only about 800 of
these birds on the planet
- underground public aquarium in Kuji, the Mogurampia, built into a coastal oil storage facility
And now onto some themes that recurred in my mind...
This trip impressed upon me how deep is the Japanese love affair
with concrete. They've really become the poets of this most
modern of building materials where a guy such as Tadao Ando can find
many peers. Some of the most beautiful minimalist artworks were
the concrete mesh nets that stabilize hillsides. These
comform to the waves and bumps of the hill and are anchored by
enormous pins of steel or concrete. The mesh size is about
6'. My favorite concrete building was the Iwate Museum of Art in
Morioka.
The overall security of Japan presents a startling contrast to
the U.S. I didn't notice it that much on previous trips, all of
which were before September 11, 2001. Except in Tokyo and on the
Shinkansen (bullet train) there doesn't seem to be any thought given
to terrorism or even crime. There are hardly any foreigners in
Japan to begin with so a group of 19 Saudis wouldn't have been
able to go anywhere without being watched. There are no ID
checks even on the Shinkansen. You can park your car at the
airport curb, even Narita, and walk away for 10-15 minutes without
anyone complaining. You don't see gun-toting thugs near public
buildings. People carry $1000+ in cash in their wallets without
a second thought. Every car has a $2000 navi system ripe to be
stolen and yet there aren't car alarms. Luxury hotels don't
bother with electronic key cards. You can eat in almost any
restaurant (except the ones listed in Lonely Planet) and not get food
poisoning. The Japanese can even enjoy the rich
social life described by Paul Theroux in Africa without
worrying about dying as the AIDS infection rate here is around 0.02%
(source).
America really is the land of luxury when it comes to space and
consumerism. From my house in Harvard Square I can drive 20
minutes and get to miles of trails through semi-rural woods, lakes,
and farms in Lincoln, MA. To get similarly away from it all in
Japan would require flying to Hokkaido, renting a car, and heading
into a national park. Real estate prices here remain savage, a
good warning perhaps to Americans as we head for a population of 420
million in the year 2050, nearly all of which will be concentrated on
the coasts. A CD is $22, a DVD is $35+. For a tourist here
only a few weeks it isn't so bad. Your wallet suffers death by
paper cuts ($4 for parking at a temple, $8 to go in, $40 in expressway
tolls to get to the next temple) but you know that you'll be heading
home soon to your spacious apartment and nearby Walmart. The
Japanese just have to resign themselves to being bled for the rest of
their lives.
The Japanese are able to overcome almost all of their natural
limitations with hard work and competitive drive. The Olympics
are going on right now and the Japanese are currently in third place
for the number of gold medals, which is remarkable when you consider
the lack of genetic diversity in the population. Craftsmen in
various small towns could get by selling average-quality goods to
average tourists but instead work late nights to win
competitions. Shamisen players compete and at concerts the
people sitting next to me would periodically whisper "Grand Champion"
when a certain artist came on stage. A chef in the tiny
provincial town of Ichinoseki could have had a nice little rice
dumpling restaurant but instead worked like a demon until he became
famous throughout Japan for making the best rice dumplings (he spoke
pretty good English too but I learned of his fame only from other
tourists).
Economically this is a country that should be nowhere. Japan
is famously lacking in natural resources and space. The nation
was closed to the West and modern technology until the mid-19th
century. Japan lost more than 3 million people and nearly all of
its physical assets during World War II. Yet by dint of nearly
every worker trying his or her hardest the country is almost as rich
as the U.S. An American engineer working for a Japanese
automaker has been over here for a year. The mechanical
engineers working for his company back in the U.S. are among the best,
brightest, and hardest working American engineers. "I hate to
admit it," he said, "but the guys here in Japan are even better.
They're older and they know more and I thought they they would slack
off but they work even harder and are more dedicated to getting it
right."
Most disturbing part of the trip: watching an old movie of an
Ainu (the native people of Hokkaido, related to Mongolians) community
event in which a bear was chained to a pole and then shot with
arrows. The bear would roll around trying to get the arrows out
and then would be shot some more. Maybe not that different from
the bullfights beloved by Spaniards but just horrible to see.
Best hotel room: Akasaka Prince Hotel, 18th floor, sweeping
corner windows, comfy sofa underneath the windows, huge bathtub,
architecture by Kenzo Tange, across the street from the 400-year-old
Japanese garden in the New Otani Hotel, adjacent to a public park with
koi pond, and 2 blocks from the Suntory Museum of Art (fantastic
Daimyo show right now). All for $115/night thanks to (a) being
on my own (double rooms are often simply 2X the price of a single),
and (b) orbitz.com.
Best hotel surprise: Hotel-onsen Kanyo in Shizugawa on the NE
coast of Tohoku. Stopped the rental car at sunset to tank up and
asked the gas station manager where to find a hotel. He said
"just one kilometer farther up" and an enormous concrete hotel
appeared. The staff spoke not a word of English, the room was
Japanese style, the hot spring bath was outdoors, and the pool was big
enough to swim laps.
Memorable scenic views:
- Mashu-ko, a crater lake in eastern Hokkaido. In general the
Japanese have heavily developed their seacoast ("the sea is where you
go to get dinner") but left lakeshores alone. This lake is a lot
like Oregon's Crater Lake but not nearly so high in elevation.
- the city of Hakodate (Sapporo) from the top of the ropeway (cable
car) and also the surrounding mountains and coastline at sunset
- cliffs and rocks of Rikuchu-kagan National Park, a
not-very-developed coastline in NE Tohoku
- cliffs in the Geibikei Gorge (near Hiraizumi) viewed from the
flat-bottomed boat while beautiful koi swam alongside and begged for
food from the tourists
- various spots along the highway in Daisetsuzan National Park
(Hokkaido)
Places in Japan that I'd like to visit next time: Nara,
Shikoku, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Okinawa (plus repeats to Tokyo and Kyoto
to see friends and familiar sights--see http://www.photo.net/travel/
japan/ for some snapshots from earlier trips)
Win a Trip to Warped Tour ’04
Win a Trip to Warped Tour ’04
05/14/2004 07:37 PMApple is sending three lucky students to the Warped Tour in Boston Aug
19-20, with a backstage pass so they can see bands such as Good
Charlotte, A Simple Plan and Thursday behind the scenes. And
they’ll each get an iPod mini. Enter before July 20. [May 14]
Off to Kauai this morning for a day
trip!
Off to Kauai this morning for a day
trip!
02/01/2005 09:43 PMI am off to Kauai this morning for a business meeting. It is a down
and back and I should be home in time for a late supper you all play
nice and I will be back in tonight.
Symbolic and perilous bus trip
Symbolic and perilous bus trip
04/07/2005 12:44 PMDefying militant attacks, passengers in divided Kashmir cross a "peace
bridge" at the India-Pakistan border, opened for the first time in 58
years.
Our trip back to Boston
Our trip back to Boston
06/05/2005 11:56 PMJulian and I arrived back in Boston this evening in our new Cirrus
SR20, N707WT. The trip back was a good illustration of the
pluses and minuses of small airplane travel. Although I was
fairly tired after 10 hours of flight training all day Friday and
Saturday morning we departed Duluth Saturday afternoon in order to
stay ahead of a line of thunderstorms. After gazing down at the
interesting colors in Lake Superior and the top portion of Lake
Michigan we stopped in Pellston, Michigan near where Lakes Michigan
and Huron meet and then departed for an instrument flight rules (IFR)
flight around the top of Lake Huron and over Toronto into Buffalo, New
York. The lake and the city lights were quite beautiful from
7000' above sea level. We did an uneventful instrument landing
system (ILS) approach through some rain into Buffalo. It was
dark by then so it was nice to have the centerline and touchdown-zone
lighting. The FBO at Buffalo found us a $52/night hotel and we
collapsed until 9:00 am this morning.
From Buffalo to Boston is only about 2.5 hours but one must cross
the Berkshires (3000' high) and the forecast was for moderately low
clouds, ice in those clouds, rain, and a really low freezing level due
to the cold temps on the surface (only about 48 degrees in Albany
today). It wasn't safe to go under the clouds given the numerous
obstructions from towers, hills, and mountains. The Cirrus
doesn't have a turbocharger so it wouldn't have been able to climb
over the top of the clouds, forecast to 20,000'. We waited on
the ground in Buffalo until 3:00 pm for some of the rain to dissipate
on the RADAR and for some of the temperatures aloft to warm up.
We decided to fly to Albany at 7000' and if we picked up any ice we'd
go to the minimum enroute altitude (5000') and see if that was above
freezing. If it wasn't we'd continue to descend and land in
Albany where we knew that the temperature would be above
freezing. We would not continue across the Berkshires where it
would be impossible to descend as far or as quickly due to the
mountains.
We entered the clouds about 2500' above the runway at Buffalo and
broke out about 6000' above sea level. This was a great
illustration of the advantages of an instrument rating. Instead
of bumping around near the ground we were above the clouds in smooth
air. Gradually, however, we approach a wall of higher
clouds. This was the rain system we'd seen on the RADAR and that
we could also see in our airplane, which has a receiver to get weather
information from the XM radio satellites (this instrument runs from
the Avidyne multi-function display, which had failed during a training
flight and restarted automatically but then crashed and got stuck on
our trip into Buffalo, so we didn't have much confidence in
this). At 7000' the main outside air temperature (OAT) gauge
showed +4 degrees C. This is the one associated with the
engine-monitoring system and in most Cirrus airplanes is the only one
enabled. We had met a mechanic on Saturday, however, who knew
how to reenable the OAT gauge on the primary flight display
(PFD), which has its probe farther out on the wing. This
read -2 degrees C. We asked Air Traffic Control
to ask some of the airliners for temperature reports at
7000' and we learned that it was probably much closer to -2 than
to +4.
Heading towards Albany we picked up a little frost on part of the
wing as the temperature dropped to -4 degrees C (or +2 if we believed
the standard instrument). We asked for 5000' and the temperature
rose and the frost came off. We asked for a routing closer to
Hartford, Connecticut to stay over lower terrain and into warmer
air. ATC gave us the new routing over Westover Air Force Base in
Western, MA. The rest of the flight was uneventful though almost
solidly in the clouds the whole time. My landing wasn't quite as
smooth as the ones that I had done in training though by no means
was it hard. The primary flight display (PFD) did not like the
little bump, however, and drew red X's across its electronic attitude
indicator and gyro compass, telling us not to trust them and to refer
to the backup "steam gauges".
Our total flight time from Duluth to Boston was about 7 hours
despite slight headwinds almost the entire way (this is unusual when
going west to east; it is supposed to be a tailwind). The Cirrus
is a fast little plane that is economical to operate and reasonably
priced. But we couldn't fly on our schedule and we never knew
whether we were going to make it through Albany or not. The
minimum airplane that is practical for transportation as opposed
to recreation is something like a Piper Malibu with a
turbocharger to climb above the clouds and de-icing equipment
sufficient to earn FAA certification for "flight into known
icing". The Malibu would have climbed over the top of all that
weather and then come down into Boston. We never would have had
to turn on the de-icing gear.
Day trip boy drowns in stream
Day trip boy drowns in stream
08/02/2004 06:47 AMEmergency crews fail to save a seven-year-old boy whose body was found
in a stream.
5 Tips for a Foolish Trip
5 Tips for a Foolish Trip
06/16/2004 10:02 AMPlan a vacation that your family -- and wallet -- will love.
Trip to New York. Part II.
Trip to New York. Part II.
01/09/2004 09:45 PMWe'll be in New York again from the 31st to the 6th and are trying to
find a reasonably priced hotel to stay at that has true high speed
internet access -- in-room WayPort or WiFi and NOT WebTV. Any...
US warns Cubans against sea trip
US warns Cubans against sea trip
07/21/2004 11:04 PMThe US says Cubans should not try to cross illegally to Florida,
saying it is issuing visas at a record rate.
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Road Trip, Anyone?
