A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts
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This is my second hostel of the US trip, and the first Hostelling International hostel, so it’s the first time my HI card has actually gotten any use. The level of luxury isn’t up to the Freehand Chicago, but I…
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I’m On A Boat. Again.
The day started with a Seattle tour, run by one of the folks who works at the hostel & who seems to be the person who organises a lot of the social stuff. There was this tour, and the cookies…
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n+1 Degrees of YouTube
This is all mostly somewhat the fault of Chris, who made a comment about the Black Helicopters landing in (probably) Spokane. See, that reminded me of this song by Soul Coughing. But in the process of finding a link to it,…
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Sea-Tac
Everyone in the universe was in Seattle this weekend, it seems, with PAX West, a Mariners Baseball game, and a few conventions or conferences, so I found a place out by the airport. Hostelworld was convinced that there were no…
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The Empire Builder – Chicago to Seattle
First, let’s get this out of the way; Where the fuzzy hell was this a week ago? I was at Union Station, looking at the display of route guides, and I would have noticed it. Please don’t tell me that I…
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Chicago II – Snoozing Back Into Town
The thing about getting on a train when it’s still dark, having gotten up at Oh Dear God AM, is that you tend to hit your seat & sleep. Or at least I do. I did find that the overhead…
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The Henry Ford
On a Sunday which threatened rain but held off on actually delivering it where such a thing could be inconvenient, we went to The Henry Ford, which combines a ‘standard’ museum with a … living history museum? Greenfield Village is…
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Detroit
Most of the Detroit content, to be honest, is in the Henry Ford post. What’s in here are a few photos and some things I noticed. On the way back from The Henry Ford, we stopped in at Atwater in…
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Kalamazoo Is Real! And There’s Beer!
My original scheme for getting to Detroit would have involved arriving at 0030h, then catching a taxi to a hotel, and meeting up with the Detroit folks in the morning. While the words ‘stupid and insane’ didn’t get used, there…
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Chicago
My accommodation for this one is the Freehand Chicago, a hostel which is trying to ride that line between Hostel & Hotel. In practice, this means that there’s a coffee place and cocktail bar on the ground floor, an ensuite…
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