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what we’ve been doing

July 11th, 2011 by callum · 6 Comments · flights, food, trains, travel, USA

first we got a taxi to Edinburgh air­port and then we took a tiny pro­peller plane (which kept doing pro­peller exer­cises before going on to the run­way) to Dublin. this is the plane that we went on Then we had to go through secur­ity again and they threw away a bottle of water that I had […]

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Canoeing down the Thornapple River

July 11th, 2011 by jane · 2 Comments · travel, USA

1 Northern Cardinal 1 Crayfish 2 White tailed deer 2 Turkey Vultures 3 Great Blue Herons 3 Turtles of unknown spe­cies 5 Muskrats 5 baby Turtles of the same unknown spe­cies 16 Belted Kingfishers Ebony jew­el­wing dam­sel­flies dart­ing every­where, rest­ing on our paddles, hats and arms. Many mat­ing. Innumerable dragon­flies And racoons screech­ing in the […]

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Zap!!!

July 10th, 2011 by chris · 2 Comments · signage, trains, travel, USA

Don’t walk on the tracks now! (Warning sign on the Chicago “El”.)

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Amtrack health warning

July 10th, 2011 by chris · 1 Comment · signage, trains, travel, USA

Health warn­ing on the train from Chicago. It does­n’t go to California, but just in case… (Sorry it’s fuzzy — the light was very low and the train was boun­cing about.)

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This flying lark

July 9th, 2011 by jane · 3 Comments · climate change, flights, travel, USA

Up at 4am after very little sleep. I’m really nervous about fly­ing so far after so long — this mys­ter­i­ous and magic­al pro­cess over which we have no con­trol and which seems to work on trust alone — and not look­ing for­ward to the bur­eau­crat­ic, unwel­com­ing and offi­cious immig­ra­tion pro­cesses. Also full of the dilem­mas of hav­ing chosen to […]

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Pre-clearance

July 8th, 2011 by chris · 3 Comments · flights, travel, USA

Arrived in Chicago last night after a reas­on­ably stress-free jour­ney. The sys­tem in Dublin is that you get grilled and fin­ger­prin­ted in “US Pre-clear­ance”. We thought this just meant the first stage of the pro­cess, but actu­ally when we go here, we found that we had already cleared cus­toms and immig­ra­tion, and that it was […]

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Be patterns, be examples

July 6th, 2011 by chris · 2 Comments · climate change, flights, USA

Be pat­terns, be examples in all coun­tries, places, islands, nations, wherever you come, that your car­riage and life may preach among all sorts of people, and to them; then you will come to walk cheer­fully over the world, answer­ing that of God in every one. George Fox, 1656 That fam­ous Quaker quote seems appro­pri­ate as we set […]

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