UMTravels

What a wonderful way to spend Mother’s Day if you can’t be around your mother — be around someone elses. Greetings from outside lovely Forks, Washington. Today’s picture is of the suite that I’m staying in here at the Quilayute River Resort — number 3: But that doesn’t really give you a feel for the […]

Today’s adventure takes us away form Olympia and onto the Olympic peninsula to visit my friends that run the Quillayute River Resort outside of Forks, Washington. I’ll be working out here for a day or two on toilet signs, notepads, postcards, you name it. It’s a nice exchange gig in a lovely suite right on […]

Well, my nun — who holds my poker money, spent all night pooping it out, and not much time putting back in. And here is the nun — she might be going into retirement if my luck doesn’t change. On the upside, the flank steaks that I’d marinated for dinner before hand were stunning. The […]

Bob may be going bye-bye. Got (another) call this afternoon from Leancy from Flagstaff who called with his flight information. Thursday early afternoon. Which means that we should be able to get to the island directly from the airport. Guess I’d better take the van so I can unload all the stuff in the bus. […]

Lovely Sue from BlueToad Design has a suggestion for BOB, the Big Old Bluebird…. mobile theatre. Guess this means she’d love to sell me back the video projector I sold her. But it’s a lovely story, and does give me some ideas: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article3845822.ece But that isn’t likely to happen since I got a call the […]

Well — what a day! Talking points emailed to Sigler and then off to this weeks listings. That would be phones, phones, phones! Here are some examples of the wonderful 70’s and 80’s phones I have on the market this week.           And here is the link to the full list: http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmarksouderQQfrppZ50QQfsopZ32QQfsooZ2QQrdZ0 I’ll be […]

Lots of auction items shipped out today — and starting to work on the next set of items — Phones, Phones, Phones! Get’em here. All the sudden it’s dinner party week: Tonight — Helene here Tomorrow — Swanda there Wednesday — Don and Sue there Thursday — Lynne here Friday — Curt, Brandon, Dave there, […]

Open admission — I use child labor. Knowing teenagers always need a few bucks — I pressed Alex and Thomas into service moving lumber out of the attic into the van. One more step on the way to getting the place listed. We were all on the 1:40pm ferry back to Anacortes — and the […]

Up at 5am — and you know how that makes me feel. That makes Paul a saint for making the early morning airport run. Routine check-in, flights on time or early, which continues my record this year of not having an itinerary fucked up by cancelled flights, missed connections or airline bankruptcy. My rules? try […]

Well — it was an interesting meeting this morning with Ron. I think the phrase is “blind sided” was how he described my request for a job. Nothing like showing up for a friendly chat about frequent flier miles and strategies  only to be hit up for a job. Many things to discuss, like compensation […]

Taking off in twenty minutes or so for a surprise visit this afternoon. And on the off chance any of them read my blog, I’ll just keep it a mystery, though if they know that I’m in the Midwest, and that there is a surprise visit planned — that would be enough to tip my […]