One last Florida breakfast...yum!

Spring training in Florida

If you like baseball -and I do- it's a great time of year to be in Florida. Drove two hours to the Nationals' park on space coast (note the fallen inflatable astronaut). $20 for the best seats in the house, saw Ryan Zimmerman hit a home run, dropped a foul ball, and the Nats won 8-0. I love my job sometimes.

My life these two weeks

Gotta be honest: Residence Inns rock.

When you work in the Little Theater at a PAC like the Kravis Center in West Palm Beach....

...sometimes you get free tickets to things in the Big Theater. Like when the Pink Floyd cover band was there last night. Flying Pig and all!

Plus, I forgot yesterday was Charlie's Day

Good ol 'bartender Brown.Thanks for the pics, guys!

Ghost Light, Rinker Theater, West Palm

Always find these soothing...

Outside the Residence Inn north of West Palm Beach...

...I think I may have an avocado tree. Whaddya think, Mom?

Forgot this from Oscar night

Silly, pretty girls.

West Palm Beach, Part 2...

Same destination, different airport. Didn't I just do this?

If it's Southwest, I must be at BWI...

...and it must be five freakin' AM. Yup. Off to West Palm Part 1...

Dawn breaks over Willard airfield, Champaign, IL

Two flights later...

Me n TW

Bowling alley, Dallas, TX  Killing time before a flight later.

View from rm. 802, Waco Hilton

Darth Valentine

The Universe gave me a Valentine for breakfast

Backstage graffiti at the Anchorage PAC

The creepy tunnel to Whittier, AK

It's a one-way tunnel seemingly hewn out of the living rock with human thighbones. Narrow, arched, with inlaid streetcar-like rails and little clearance or lighting. Terrifyingly equipped with alarmingly frequent 'safe houses' in case a quake  brings the mountain down on your head. Mom, you would hate it.

Leaving Anchorage in search of the Portage Glacier.

Fat, cold, old, and onstage

Anchorage Performing Arts Center. I begin to grow bear-like...

Downtown Anchorage

Snowing so hard they closed the local gov't. Record Alaskan winter. And we were here.

Best Western Kodiak

On one of Kodiak's black sand beaches

Naturally you can't see the the black, the sand, or the beach. Oops.

Kodiak Island, AK

We're almost bored by Alaska's relentless natural beauty. Almost.

Couple of pictures I missed....

Here I am in front of the blue ice of the Mendenhall Glacier outside Juneau, and this is us chasing a blurry young moose through the mountains outside of Fairbanks on our aurora expedition. We saw the barest minimum of activity that will allow us to legally claim to have seen the Northern Lights, but we did get to chase a moose. Also, a better snowshoeing picture.

FYI: our car would not start the next day in Fairbanks. If that had happened the night before, I doubt we would have survived being 10 miles from nowhere in -50 degrees.  Whew!