UMTravels

Checked out a little before 11am (which was checkout time) and headed to the airport even though my flight wasn’t until 3:50pm. With the pandemic, the hot breakfast at the Wingate by Wyndham was a sack of takeaway thing like an apple, a muffin, a granola bar – all suitable to packing for the way […]

Day two of my sequestered adventure. I interact with fewer people than I would on a trip to the grocery store, and masks are required. This would be sunrise over Northern California: For breakfast I headed to the dining car…which was dead. Even if it was at capacity, with the pandemic, every other booth is […]

Continuing my quest to find pandemic travel options that as safe as possible considering mask scofflaws. Thought I’d check out the train in a roomette. This is something that I booked back in May when I was looking forward to ANY travel. Hello Coast Starlight – it runs from Seattle to Los Angeles. Formerly it […]

So, six weeks ago I posted about selling some footage for an HBO Sports Documentary – yes, me, a SPORTS documentary. Here is the link to that post: https://blog.unclemarkie.com/2020/08/22/trip-report-hbo-sports-documentary/ Well, three weeks ago they were in production and needed some additional footage that didn’t have to be exclusive to the Whistler Peak lift – just […]

Spent part of last week in Kansas City visiting my birth town (technically, one city over – Independence). The usual Caesar (a Canadian bloody Mary made with Clamato)…the lounge does a great job with these: Smoke is less than my flight a couple of weeks ago: Food choices have improved a bit – there is […]