CraigBlog

A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • With apologies to the late Chris Rea. Checked out of the hotel at dawn, having packed up the night before, and trundled my way to the station. Hadn’t really wanted to still be in temporary accommodation after over a month…

  • Part of me wants to think that this is a boat ramp for canoes or similar, but … I think I’m wrong. When I first saw this, from a carpark, I thought that maybe the stripmall bordered on an ornamental…

  • I got the yearly “this is what you listened to this year” report from Spotify, and because I’m easily amused, I grabbed images of the bits which entertained or terrified me.

  • There won’t be many pictures in this post, because it’s not really my place to be publicly sharing wedding photos, especially not before the married couple get to do so. When I was first asked to be a part of…

  • In hindsight, I’d have done the ‘weekend’ a bit differently; Taken the train in the morning to have more time to hang out with folks. Friday The event was Alex’s stag/bachelor weekend, which he organised himself, so there was a…

  • It’s a long & exhausting trip, and it’s not getting any easier. The Indy to Dublin route opened after I booked, or I’d have at least tried that, to take out an airport and some time. For some reason, the…

  • Mostly photos in this one. In hindsight, I maybe could have spent more time in Anderson, making a slightly longer weekend of it, but I didn’t think of that until far too late. This is the downside of a plan…

  • While in Michigan I got to try a s’more, and had conversations about the appropriate sizing of marshmallow to cracker, which led on to conversations about making tiny little s’mores using those mini-marshmallows, if you could find the appropriate size…

  • Well, moving from Hotel to Hostel. It’s sort of a moving day. The hotel wasn’t in a great area, I think? The area about a block away towards the conference centre seemed worse, just from the number of clearly drugged-up…

  • The crowds were less and the tiredness was more.

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