2008 Update

Was screwing around with some other Blogger issues this evening. Basically, I have two Google accounts -- the one I used for the blogs predates Googles acquisition of Blogger, and another for Google business (ads, alerts, etc.). So after much dorking around, everything of any minor importance is now is now associated with my (currently) more active Google account.

Except that I can't seem to get my kindergarten mug shot to show up everywhere.

Travel update:

• Annual pilgramage to the air show at Oshkosh, WI (July-Aug, 2008).
  
• Munich, Germany & Salzbug, Austria (frequent flyer gathering) & Vienna, Austria, Sept., 2008.
• Palm Beach, Florida, Dec., 2008 (frequent flyer gathering).
• Dresden, Germany, & Prague, Czech Republic, Dec. 2008 (basic mundane vacation).

The last trip was especially amazing for me. I grew up with a father who at various times worked in a mountain command bunker (Kolsås) or carried a missile-launching key around his neck (odds were 1:4 it would be his voice broadcasting the Go Code for Armageddon). I never dreamed I'd ever be traveling on the other side of the former Iron Curtain, and so freely.

Sic erraverunt Mike atque Kathy

I created this blog so we'd have a record of our travels. Since the inception of the blog, we've been to:

2005:

• Athens, Greece, Dec., 2005 (basic mundane vacation)

2006:

• Houston, TX, (just Mike) frequent flyer gathering hosted by Continental, Jan., 2006
  
• El Paso, TX, frequent flyer gathering, Feb., 2006.
• Singapore, Singapore, and Sydney, Australia, March, 2006.
• Moscow, ID, for a memorial service, May, 2006.
  
• Sweden (Mike to work, Kathy to play) in Sept., 2006
• Ljubljana, Slovenia, frequent flyer gathering, Oct., 2006
• Frankfurt, Germany, mileage run for Kathy, Nov., 2006
• Frankfurt, Germany, frequent flyer gathering to pig out at the Sheraton Advents brunch, Dec., 2006

2007:

• Honolulu, HI, Northwest Airline's DC-10 retirement run, Jan., 2007
  
• El Paso, TX, frequent flyer gathering, Feb., 2007
• Oslo, Norway, March, 2007 (basic mundane vacation)
• Cincinnati, OH, frequent flyer gathering hosted by Delta, May, 2007
• On the high plateau east of Mountain Home, ID, 4th of July, 2007
  
• Zurich, Switzerland, frequent flyer gathering, plus a side trip to Luzern, Sept., 2007
  
• Fort Lauderdale & Palm Beach, FL, frequent flyer gathering, plus a side trip to Key West, Oct., 2007
• Frankfurt, Germany, pig out at the Sheraton Advents brunch again, Dec., 2007
• Richmond, VA, Mike got food poisoning & spent the weekend barfing in the hotel room, Dec., 2007

2008:

• Plant City, FL, Strawberry Festival, Feb., 2008
• San Antonio, TX, March, 2008
• Chicago, IL, frequent flyer gathering & master stone carving demo, May, 2008.
• Sydney, Hobart & Melbourne, Australia, & Honolulu, HI, May, 2008.
  

... plus countless trips (every 2-3 weeks) to St. Louis to visit my mother.

Obviously, I am not a contemporaneous blogger. :(