Category: nerdtour things!

These things are about my various excursions!

On the road at last!

Well, I made it to Columbus Ohio before calling it a night. Made it about 440 miles on day 1. Not bad, but not as far as I would have liked. Ran into rain, rain and more rain, all through Ohio.

Worst roads so far: Pennsylvania. Second worst: western Ohio.
Bumpy, potholed, decayed.

Best scenery so far: Western Maryland. Cumberland MD is about the nicest looking old town I’ve seen in a long time. I wish I had known before I got there, so I could have stopped and taken pictures. May have to make a day trip one day, just to take pictures!

I wanted to update my web page with pictures, but AOL here is being a [CENSORED] about not allowing my packets to route to my server. [CENSORED] corporate [CENSORED] [CENSORED] [CENSORED].

At least after a couple of tries (using the AOL browser only!) they let me log in here, so I could update my journal. Oh, well, at least there’ll be something to look forward to, some day!

I feel like NASA – trip delayed 1 day

Well, talk about underestimating. It took longer to pack up today, and to take care of some last-minute business, so I didn’t make it on the road until 3:30. Plus, thanks to some traffic disruptions due to a bomb hoax, the traffic heading north (the way I wanted to go) had already clogged Interstate 270. Anyone who’s been on it knows it would have taken hours just to go 20 miles, so I turned around and came back home. Fortunately getting on the road tomorrow won’t be as hard, since I’ve only unpacked as much as if I was at a hotel.

Launch delayed due to pilot stupidity!

*sigh*

T Minus 9 hours and counting!

Nerd Tour 2003 begins at 10:00 AM EDT Monday morning! Final systems checks were made, the vehicle condition is nominal, final loading will begin at approximately 9:00 AM. Pilot is in varying stages of excitement and anxiety, and is preparing for sleep. Web page was updated with map showing first leg of the route, DC to Denver.

More to follow!

Nerd Tour 2003

What is Nerd Tour 2003? It’s my doofy name for the cross-country road trip I’m taking over the next 4 weeks.

Why a road trip? Two reasons: One, it’s kind of the American thing to do, to take to the road, following the sunset; and Two, it’s unAmerican the way people are treated by the “security” staff at US airports, so this is my personal thumb in the eye of government officials who want to assume I’m a criminal and insist on treating me that way.

I’m planning to use this journal to let people who are interested (all 5 of you! 🙂 know where I am and what I’m doing, updating it every evening when I stop for the night, AOL willing and the phones work right. There may be pictures as well, occasionally. We’ll have to see how it works out.