There’s a scene in the movie Nation Lampoon’s Vacation that I never saw coming. After fighting their way across the United States, through horrible tragedies, dead grandmothers & dogs, the Griswold family station wagon barrels into the completely empty parking lot of Wally World – a thinly disguised DisneyLand – only to discover the park … Read more
I’m testing BlogPress on the iPhone. I have time because I’m bored at Old Navy. See? Boring video, too. This is, of course, a test in advance of being in Taiwan. YouTube Video – Posted from my iPhone
In a couple weeks, we’ll be in Taiwan. I’ve upgraded (or downgraded, depending on how you look at it) all our travel video gear. This year, in addition to digital cameras and phones that can record video, we’ll be carrying two different mini-HD cameras. Chu-Wan has a “Flip MinoHD Camcorder, 60 Minutes (Black)” (Flip Video) … Read more
This is really going to me more about the Daleks than this week’s episode of Doctor Who, but we’ll do both. Victory of the Daleks is the Moffat-era reboot of the Daleks, and they desperately needed a reboot, but will this really be an improvement? Summary Winston Churchill calls the Doctor to the Cabinet War … Read more
Now, I can make my final judgment on our recent experiment using priceline.com to book our hotels. A brief recap: We decided to book our hotel(s) on a San Diego trip via Priceline’s name your price program. We bid for 3 nights at a minimum 3-star hotel at $75 per night – fully expecting to … Read more
Sometimes people need to learn to pull their heads out of their butts. Personally, I’ve had to hold back this narrative of our last full day in San Diego because of how pissed off I get every time I sat down to write it. I’m just going to divorce myself from commenting on it in … Read more
It was goodbye to the 3-star Woodfin today and hello to the 4-star Omni San Diego. I’ll relate more about the ultimate Priceline experience later, suffice it to say the Omni is a nicer hotel, right next to the Gaslamp district and the convention center – for less money per night. We got out of … Read more
Day three brought us to the San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park. Which constitutes a lot of walking and driving around looking at animals. ’nuff said. Afterwards we explored the area, bought some “fresh” california produce from a roadside stand and stopped at Famer Boys Hamburgers, for a decent, if unremarkable late lunch. That put … Read more
Ah, our memories from childhood! Oh, you youngsters don’t remember the days before microwave ovens, or before Domino’s Pizza and Pizza Hut had expanded out and dominated the entire country. In those old days, there were one or two Pizza Huts in town – the old kind, with no delivery and a table-top video game … Read more