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By Chile Doctor, September 5th, 2008, at 5:36 pm
For the first time, I found out it’s possible for me to get bored in an airport.
I know you might find that odd. Your experience is probably more typical; all airports are boring. But I love travel and flying, and I avidly watch all sorts of mechanisms that fly. It was a shock to me, [...]
By Chile Doctor, September 4th, 2008, at 4:00 pm
The Chile Underground’s Grand India Tour and Month-Long Snarf-Fest Curry Expedition got off to a prosaic, even mudane start, with a short hop from Austin to Dallas. With winds from the north at both airports (Thank You Gustav!), the pilot barely had to maneuver at all; up and down, 31 minutes and done. Shoot, I [...]
By Chile Doctor, May 14th, 2008, at 12:54 pm
Spicy Blog Returns
Life tosses you curve balls; you adjust your stance and swing away. Strike out and you sit on the bench for a while, wondering how Charlie Brown must have felt. Then you play right field for, like, three dog years (that’s five months for most of us) while the other team bats around [...]
By Chile Doctor, October 2nd, 2007, at 4:17 pm
My work day finished in good order, and I decided to treat myself by taking a “teksi” home rather than riding the SMRT. Yes, the SMRT is clean and convenient. But it was already nearly 6 PM, and if you don’t get on before 5:15 the crowd gets large. So I hailed a cab in [...]
By Chile Doctor, September 15th, 2007, at 7:12 pm
I made it to Hong Kong, but it wasn’t easy this time.
I got up early on Friday and loaded up my gear. My wife dropped me off at Austin Bergstrom airport at 0700, and the trip started out well enough. Only took 20 minutes to get through check-in and security, and the lounge was nearly [...]
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