Travel weary
Travel is starting to get to me. In reality I did more last year, but less of it was to teach. Maybe teaching is getting the best of me? I'm not sure, but something, while I'm in a hotel room in some city that doesn't have my house and my hammock is getting to me.
Maybe it's cause last year we were starting up a new business, so many of the trips were business idea and planning, and the educational ones were new. This year the students are decidedly coming to the classes with more information already, and each class they seem already more familiar with the subject material, so that's good. But it's wearing on me.
Spent some nice time with Josh and Wil this week in Tampa, a strange, strange place if ever I saw one. Like many southern cities, empty after work hours. But also empty during work hours. Ybor City, THE tourist destination? Empty. It was as if the Rapture had just occurred and we had just found out that watching too much web porn was a sin after all.
It was so empty that Wil and I played a version of our popular game Craneo (where we have to pick out five construction cranes in a row without getting blocked) as "Pedesterino" The goal was to get to 25 on one walk, and we failed. We got to 11 and then found a street festival, which clearly made the people there not pedestrians, so much as attendees of something.
By the way, as you'll notice from the sidebar here on the left, I'm now Twittering as a result of peer pressure and frequent distance from a computer. davidjschloss is my tweet stream, or my "twit" as i prefer to call it.
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