Mom is in the air on the way from Indianapolis and we're just about to head out the door to go pick her up at LAX. Of course Chris is beside himself (as am I) since we haven't seen her in over a year now. So far, according to our Worldmate Travel program, the flight is only 10 minutes delayed right now, so we should be pretty close to on-time pi...

After arriving in LA, I had a lovely ten hour stopover which I filled up with walking around shady ol' Inglewood, checking out a gravesite for my Grandma's continuing genaeology records, walking some more, eating bad Mexican, and sitting in LAX for five hours. I really hate that city, I must say. I've been there only twice, which is not much a o...

DAY 1 FRI The last glimpse of the world as I knew it was my wife's pixie face peering around the dividing wall of the departure lounge. With that rare but heady elation that prefaces each new overseas adventure I strode towards Gate 31. An hour later and thirty thousand feet higher some of the romance had seeped away to be replaced by sore butto...