Monday, September 21, 2015

The Time to Travel

Today I am sitting in an airport, on a layover, waiting to make my next flight for work. There have been a lot of these lately. It has been a crazy year. I've traveled a good ten times for work, six trips have been since I got married.

Things that have defined this year for me when traveling are Pay Day candy bars, Monster Energy drinks ( a new found love of mine), dramemine, Audio Books, a  special interest in the American Revolution and its history, Alan Jackson music, driving in a rental car to gather soil from each state I pass through.

I've had the opportunity this year to gather soil from:

  • White Sands, NM
  • Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Washington State
  • Maryland
  • Virginia
  • Delaware
  • Idaho
  • New Jersey
  • Missouri
  • Oklahoma
  • Arkansas
  • Kansas
  • Minnesota
  • Illinois
  • Iowa
  • Wisconsin
  • Tennessee
This in addition to the last couple of years':

  • Ohio
  • Pennsylvania
  • Kentucky
  • Indiana
  • Colorado
  • New Mexico
  • Texas
  • Arizona
  • California
  • Wyoming
  • Nevada
  • West Virginia
  • New York



I'm grateful for the chance to travel, and some times frustrated by the tedious nature of its bureacracy and the various hoops I find myself jumping through to do it. Life is good though, long waits in the airport afford a good chance to think and read about things I normally wouldn't have the time for. Laptop battery allowing, I am trying to make good use of this time today.

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