The Veggie Factor

Vegetarians take special risks when they travel.

Principally, they risk starvation.

To protect myself from this fate, I've enlisted the help of the graphically challenged but internationally ambitious vegetarian listing site Happy Cow

"Backpack to the Future" or "My Pack: A Love Story"

As I previously suggested, my Mom and I elected to send our luggage to London ahead of us.

The prevailing system = total surrender to overworked baggage handlers,
outdated airport systems, understaffed customs areas and overspeculative security.

Hopefully the upcoming system will look more like this

Until then, at least my backpack has the 007-esque Tumi tracer

Facetime

Pic of me from Christopher Irion's "Who Makes San Francisco"

To Do List...

As cruises resemble all-inclusive vacations, one imagines planning very little in preparation.

I must gather materials for our suitcase,

Arrange for our luggage to be shipped ahead so we can finesse customs,

Purchase tickets for shows,

And figure out where we'll eat on land.

Transatlantic Lit Crit

When favorably considering a Transatlantic passage, few benefit from available literature.

Buckley bores

Cornellia kevetches

and disaster worship, thy name is Titanic

Barring the sudden appearance of pedantic Republican pundits, bed bugs, and icebergs, however, I think we'll have a decent voyage.

How Did It Happen?

My Mom wanted to go on a fall folliage cruise along the Eastern coast of Canada. I wanted to go overseas.

Our Cruise

19 days will be our longest sustained interaction in 19 years.

Linda Montano and Tehching Hseih spent a year tied to one another by a rope back then. Sharing a balcony stateroom for a fortnight seems like a modest accomplishment in that perspective.

More About The Year of the Rope

Welcome to Frequency Hopper

The theory of radio controled devices was not new in 1940, but the notion of frequency hopping was. Actress Hedy Lamarr (who shares the month and day of my birth) co-invented it, demonstrating the brains under all that blonde.

Today, the theory of frequency hopping is the basis for all secure military communications.

More On Lamarr

On these pages, frequency hopping will more or less about jumping out of everyday living into entirely different realities.

Hedy certainly had ideas about that; she changed husbands six times.

We're just going on a Transatlantic cruise.

We'll use this blog to keep our family and friends in the loop.