Go go gadget travel dickwaving. Here's a mostly inclusive list of the various Metro systems that I've travelled on throughout the world. Missing is the excitement that is the Sacramento light rail system. Most exotic? Bucharest, Romania - this supposed triumph of Communist engineering is actually pretty much identical to ...

I made it up to the SF Bay Area last weeked for the first time since Thanksgiving last year, basically 10 months ago. I saw a bunch of old friends that I hadn't seen in a long time, including my buddy Dan who I've known ever since my family ...

I'm heading up to the Bay Area this weekend for my friend Jim's wedding. While I've been all over the Pacific in the last 6 months, the last time I was up in SF was back in November, unless you count sitting in the airport at SFO for an hour ...

I'm back in SD again finally after a couple of delays. I tried to fly home on Wednesday morning, but missed my flight. Honolulu airport was just a mess - I had to go through Agriculture inspection at the American Airlines terminal, then change my plane ticket there, THEN I ...

We're now at the primary station on my "Final Cruise Mark Deux". As this is a water chemistry cruise, there isn't all that much for me to do now that the email accounts have been set up and the scientists are all plugged in. We'll be on station for another ...

The computer tech I was training decided he missed his puppy dog or something and just walked off the ship this morning, 2 days before they (or should I say we) were scheduled to sail. It's only a 5 day trip doing CTD work, which means easy work for the ...

We're almost to Honolulu, and 12 hours away from the end of my last cruise with this STS. I've been pretty productive this cruise. Most of the time has been spent doing a huge brain dump into the group's Operations Manual, since they have a whole crop of new techs that ...

We're now officially on the correct side of both the equator and the dateline. I missed the momentus occurance by being on ye olde interwebbe instead of on deck with a beer. Whaa. Our bosun just caught a 25 pound yellowtail, so we should have fresh fish tomorrow for dinner.

I'm out at sea on my last trip sailing for Scripps. I'm training a new computer tech this cruise - hope he likes it. We're sailing from Fiji to Honolulu, then I'm out of here. The weather started out pretty rough, but it's significantly better today. Today is groundhog day, as ...

I'm flying out to Fiji at 8:30 tonight. I still havn't packed... Waiting for a network checkout to complete on my laptop so that I have some files I need at sea. Laaaag.