Perhaps you’re inspired by this blog to go traveling for a while, or you’re just curious what it would take, or maybe you’re already planning a trip, or you suffer from severe insomnia. In any case, I thought some people might be interested in what we did to prepare for our trip. First off, we [...]

There are a million pages on the web that describe how to make your bash prompt nice and colorful. Most just hard-code the color sequences, which can break if you use a weird terminal. Until today I used some clever code I stole from somewhere that used tput to get the color codes from the [...]

Typed up: on plane to Boston
Posted from: Jane and Tom’s place in Boston
Back “home,” we’ve been very busy. We stayed at Andy and Juliette’s place for about a week and a half visiting friends and doing chores, before driving up to the Bay Area where I had a job interview. Things looked promising, we looked [...]

Typed up at: Laura and Alan’s place in Emeryville, Starbucks in Palo Alto
Posted from: Laura and Alan’s place in Emeryville, Andy and Juliette’s place in Newbury Park
The port agent drove us to the place where our ship had just docked. The gangplank wasn’t down yet, so we spent a while just standing next to the [...]

Typed up: on ship to Long Beach
Posted from: Andy and Juliette’s house in Newbury Park
The bus ride to Busan was over an hour shorter than the book had said it would be. I think they must have built some new roads since the book was written. It was easy to find a locker that fit [...]

Typed up: on ship to Long Beach
Posted from: Andy and Juliette’s house in Newbury Park
We took the bus from the Express Bus Station in Seoul to Cheongju. It was great. The bus had leather seats similar to business class in an airplane, yet ticket prices were still pretty low. The scenery was nice and green. [...]

Typed up: on ship to Long Beach
Posted from: Andy and Juliette’s home in Newbury Park
Our flight to Seoul was as good as we’ve gotten used to. We ended up at the end of the immigration line, and this is the first time that our bags made it to the luggage carousel before we did. The [...]

Typed up: on ship to Long Beach
Posted from: Andy and Juliette’s house in Newbury Park
Just having a few days to kill before our flight to Seoul we stayed in Solano to dry out and relax. It still rained regularly, but not non-stop like it had been. Solano was a small town with no sights, so [...]

Typed up: on bus to Busan, on ship to Long Beach
Posted from: Andy and Juliette’s house in Newbury Park
As we got off the bus in Banaue, a friendly local wanted to know where we were going. She took us to our hotel, the Banaue View Inn, in a tricycle. We checked in. She wanted to [...]

I know I’m way behind on my blogging. I will finish it up, I promise. Anyway, tomorrow or the day after that we’ll be boarding MV Hanjin Pretoria. It’s a giant container ship that will arrive in Long Beach on Jne 3 (we hope). If the Internet works well, you can check up on where [...]