by ezs | Aug 31, 2005 | travel, Uncategorized
Entirely unrelated to my previous post on the TSA – I decided that the time had come to replace my travelling bags with something newer.
I’ve been travelling and working with a soft leather briefcase since I started consulting – almost ten years ago. I’ve also used a variety of overnight bags, suit carriers, Novell BrainShare bags and the like over time.
With my carry on pretty much standard now (laptop, power, books, iPod, headphones, pencil, notepad) and hopefully I can travel a lot lighter – I wanted to reduce my dependence to really a single, carry on size bag.
I looked at all of the traditional offerings (yuk – American Tourister carry on – guaranteed to get lost in the melee)
I finally decided on the Victorinox Trek Pack Plus – one flight so far – and it’s just great.
I’ll be taking this to London and Barcelona next week – so I’ll post an update on how it behaves with 10 days of gear and a couple of laptops.
by ezs | Aug 24, 2005 | travel, Uncategorized
Flew back from Stamford, CT – I had to check a carry on bag as it was ‘not permitted’ – not too large, not too heavy – just ‘not permitted’.
I got a leaflet from TSA explaining that sometimes items can be ‘just not permitted’ – at the discretion of the TSA agent.
It’s not like I tried to sneak a box cutter (Stanley Knife to the civilised world), wrench, hockey stick, 5 gallons of gas/petrol or anything else on board. Just a small rucksack – way smaller than the carry on limit – that was ‘not permitted’.
I fly a lot. I fly a lot with just carry on. I fly a lot with this bag.
Jobsworth. Another English word that I proudly introduce to the wider vocabulary of the English speaking word. Learn it, use it, love it.
by ezs | Aug 19, 2005 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
Columbus,OH airport has free wireless.
by ezs | Jun 21, 2005 | travel, Uncategorized
I am back in Lebanon, NH for a day or so – and what a difference from the previous visits.
The first few visits here were during the depths of winter – very cold and with a higher humidity than Utah it was bone chilling.
Today it is sunny, warm and about 30’C/90’F. This part of NH is also very green and lush; even with the prolonged rain back home it is nothing like this. It’s a real reminder of England.
by ezs | May 24, 2005 | evilzenscientist, travel, Uncategorized
(More catchup from last week – slightly delayed by events at the weekend)
I had to travel between Zuerich and Stuttgart on Thursday evening with John Mahon. We decided the best way to travel would be by train – so we took the DB ICE between the two cities – very relaxing, comfortable and a fraction of the cost of flying.
On the way just after we crossed the border between Switzerland and Germany we saw some old abandoned locomotives – late epoch steam and 60’s East German Diesel. Very eery – they were not preserved, but also weren’t in the decayed scrap stage either.
(Not my photo – but this is one of the locos we saw)
Now neither one of us would admit to being ‘an enthusiast’ 🙂 but I did note they were a lot of ex-DRG Class 52 sitting there rusting away. Google and some diligence on mapquest found me the answer.
It looks like this is a private collection at the Tuttlingen Railway Museum – and looking at the list there is a lot of rusting iron sitting on those sidings.
The Class 52 was built as a wartime workhorse – these engines are sixty years old – and most probably worked until the late 1960s across Eastern Germany.
Incredible to see these just sitting on sidings at the side of the main railway. It certainly made for an interesting conversation on the journey.
by ezs | May 24, 2005 | evilzenscientist, fun stuff, travel, Uncategorized
Aside from being ill in Europe – there was time for a suitable amount of jolly fun.
Novell Zurich has a pool car – as you can see it’s ex-CTP – so it’s done a few miles.
Alan is a bit of a performance car man; while I’ve always wanted to drive a car that’s physically smaller than myself. I figured the result would be like the Shriners mini clown car.
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