trivium of the moment

560 people died for every mile of the panama canal.

from here, forward

okay,

i'm officially off AYCJ now, so don't expect daily updates ... or even updates about things that happen everyday ...

here's the itinerary for the next 14 days:

Cruise Itinerary:

11 OCT

FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA

12 OCT

AT SEA

13 OCT

AT SEA

14 OCT

CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA

07:00 - 15:00

15 OCT

PANAMA CANAL (CRUISING)

06:00 - 18:00

16 OCT

AT SEA

17 OCT

PUNTARENAS, COSTA RICA

07:00 - 19:00

18 OCT

AT SEA

19 OCT

HUATULCO, MEXICO

12:00 - 18:00

20 OCT

ACAPULCO, MEXICO

09:00 - 18:00

21 OCT

AT SEA

22 OCT

PUERTO VALLARTA, MEXICO

08:00 - 16:00

23 OCT

CABO SAN LUCAS, MEXICO

08:00 - 16:00

24 OCT

AT SEA

25 OCT

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA

07:00

the ship's 'net connection is butt expensive -- $100 for four hours, i think is the "best" rate -- so i'm not going to be connecting from there ... and there's so little land time that i'm not going to be sitting in a internet cafe typing away ...

AYCJ was an experiment in mass broadcast communication for me, but it's not the way i think of writing simply for myself ... or putting it another way, AYCJ was showing off and what follows isn't.

i picked up art supplies today so i can continue drawing ... i'll be doing some writing about poker (and some other writing about poker) as well.  don't expect to see those updates while i'm at sea.

if there's anything in particular you're curious about in my travels, or you'd like to see me write about, let me know ... 

i'll still post an AYCJ summary at some point ... i'm still digesting what it all means.

pax.

taking down the cafe press site tomorrow @ 17:00 ET

if you want an AYCJ t-shirt, click on the link in the right.

all profits go to carbonfund.org

the last photo from flight #47 ...

... and my last AYCJ flight.

pic of the day (30) -- AYCJ

escalator MCO

the last photo from flight #48 ...

... and if you're seeing this posted before 13:00 ET on 10/8, that means
sending in tmail is fixed too.

all you can jet - day 30 - orlando, FL

well, AYCJ has 31 days ... don't ask me how the hell i wasn't able to count from 1 - 31 ... i guess i can always fall back on a line of my dad's "your degree is in mathematics, not arithmetic."


even though this is the last day, the flight leaves past noon ... that means we can sneak something in this morning ... so it's up at 06:00 to head to orlando wetlands park.


it's actually a water filtration system for the city of orlando; a series of very large cubed ponds, not unlike an ice tray, if each cube space was 200 acres.

spot the alligator

spot the baby alligator

like nearly every wilderness adventure we've had, we only saw two non-park people, and that was on the way out.  

this is a great way to spend time before the last flight.

we head up to MCO.  the chaos at the rental agency before is replaced with order. 

and everything just works.

the catch of the day was i had to go from FLL to MCO -- 200 miles by land -- but jetblue doesn't fly that way ... so i had to go up to JFK, just to turn around and come back ... 2000 miles by plane.

i watched my accomplice head off to SJC, then turned around and headed back to fort lauderdale.  i'm here for three nights (free in the four-star and fairly swank hilton fort lauderdale marina because i booked the cruise through priceline).  my mom comes in day after tomorrow.