United 1646: SFO to IAD

If you don't know where you're going / Any road will take you there - George Harrison #QotD

A repeat from a post of a few years ago ("All Those Years Ago" perhaps?).

Today would have been George Harrison's 68th birthday. I'm sure that Somewhere in England there are people who remember him at 33 1/3. But then, All Things Must Pass when we're Living in a Material World that's so full of Extra Texture that it causes some of us to live on Cloud Nine while others have just Gone Troppo. George was a bit of a Dark Horse in the post-Beatle hit making, but his Electronic Sound really was a Wonderwall of music that left us all just a little Brainwashed via his Eastern leanings.
Happy birthday, George, we miss you!

Another one of those Bay Area library kinda nights....

Birthplace of Silicon Valley, where Hewlett & Packard started a revolution in 1938

So long Meyer Library, you'll be rubble next time I'm here!

Another fabulous morning at Stanford

Good morning to Sunny Stanford

Just another sunny day on Palo Alto (sorry all of you trapped on ice and snow)

@United 434: IAD to SFO

Gate C12, on time even in the ice storm.

About 3" of snow today, now turning to ice

Happy Presidents' Day ... this year, I honor Calvin Coolidge and Franklin Pierce

Pierce Manse

Last summer, I visited New Hampshire and Vermont -- homes to this year's Presidents. So, in honor of Franklin Pierce and Calvin Coolidge, I dedicate this Presidents' Day.

First, I stopped in Concord, NH and, in addition to visiting the State Capitol, stopped to see the Pierce Manse. Sadly, it wasn't open, but I did get to walk around a bit. As an interesting side note, in elementary school (4th and 5th grade), one of my classmates claimed to be descended from Franklin Pierce. Who knows?

From New Hampshire, we drove on to Vermont and spent some time in the Rutland area. Before driving back to Manchester, we took a side trip to Plymouth Notch, the home and birthplace of Calvin Coolidge. The historic site was quite interesting.

So, what about the two Presidents? Pierce was certainly one of the worst (despite having his biography being written by Nathaniel Hawthorne! Coolidge probably somewhere in the middle.

Coolidge Birthplace (and birthroom)

US Airways 2181: LGA to DCA

Gate C41

Morning to Manhattan ...

From the Upper East Side

A visit to the Smithsonian National Design Museum, Cooper Hewitt

US Airways 2174: DCA to LGA

Gate 44

United 616: ORD to DCA

Gate B3

Good morning Chicago, feeling tropical at 18F today

Good morning to Chicago blue skies after the snow

Blizzard warning still on for #ALAMW15, snow not publisher's galleys

Blizzard Warning remains in effect until midnight CST tonight.

Timing: snow, heavy at times, will continue into this evening.

Blizzard conditions will also develop and continue this evening.

Snow accumulations: 10 to 16 inches, with isolated higher amounts possible.

Snowy, blizzardy, Chicago good morning