Saturday, April 26, 2014

Raleigh airport

 I am not sure, if this is either fair or it if it even makes sense but I will often judge a city or even a country by the quality of the airport.
For example my hour spent walking around the Iceland airport makes me think that the Icelandic people have everything together.
For some odd reason, I booked a flight that took me from Dulles Airport in Virginia to Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina. I used miles which sometimes takes you on interesting routes. 
I was really impressed with how modern the airport seemed and the fact they had decent shops and good people watching.  turns out Raleigh Durham is the Silicon Valley of North Carolina.
Two cities that I give very low marks for their airport and I kind of judge the city based on that is one Los Angeles and two Memphis.  both of those seemed like they were designed by a suicidal architect whose budget was cut halfway through the design process.

On a completely different note,  I rarely give actual cash to hobos and vagrants or drifters but near the end of my run in the Churchton/Deale Metroplex I stopped for a coffee at High's.  a very sketchy guy was counting his nickels and pennies in order to buy a gallon of gas to get out of this horrible town I saw that he actually had a car that he was in the process of actively filling. So I contributed to dollars to his cause of getting away from Churchton so he can continue his hardscrabble way in either Lothian or lower Marlboro. 

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Monday, April 07, 2014

6:30 AM Hilly course


Yesterday we had to wake up at 3 AM after getting to sleep at 11 PM  for a total of four hours of sleep to park at Civic Center,  take a shuttle bus to Ocean Beach, hang out in a random Safeway that was sort of open, and then run a very very hilly half marathon that when up through the Richmond up through Baker Beach over the rolling a bridge, through the Presidio, through the Marina Green, up on a surprisingly hilly Polk Street.  my time was 205, Heather finished it in 154. With all things considered, I was really happy with the whole experience.



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