NO MORE TRAVEL (sort of)

I haven't posted in a while because I've been traveling like mad lately. The first part of August I went with my parents and family to London. I'm glad I went and I had a great time. I've seen London, but I think others who knew it a decade ago are right, it is just another world city these days and the local charm of "London" is gone. I didn't ever feel like I was in a foreign country. It felt only slightly different than the few hours I spent in New York years ago. Anyway, I've been to London now.

After that, I had a trip back to the States briefly for the second interview in my job/career track thing. I thought it went well, and I will find out the end result on September 5th. I'm anxious, but confident that I passed. While in St. Louis, I did a ton of work. The hours were long and I was basically eating, sleeping, or working. I did get to have dinner one night with some friends and that was special. Thanks to Merl for a fantastic spread!

Then, when I got back to the UK, I rested on Sunday, worked on Monday, and then headed off for my actual family vacation to Ireland! Nine days and eight nights, six of which we were camping. Amanda brought her computer, and wrote blog entries every night. She will be posting them shortly. I will write my impressions of the trip this weekend. Basically, Ireland has rain. Rain is wet, but it makes things green. Green is very pretty.

So between London, Amanda's trip to Scotland, and Ireland we've got over 500 photos to go through and put up on Flickr. It will take me a while to get them all up and organized. Just to give you all an idea, about 1/2- 2/3 of the photos get put up on Flickr, the others are poorly exposed or crap or whatnot. Most of them are duplicates from exposure bracketing or playing with aperture and shutter and I judiciously try to pick the best one to put on Flickr. I haven't even looked to see what is on The Girl's camera lately.

So, except for a probable trip to Maryland in the near future, I'm done with travel for a while. Back to work in the UK!