Travels

I'm home!!!

August 14, 2007

I'm home, it's midnight, and I have an 8:30 meeting tomorrow (today!) morning, so I'm off to bed. I'll write more about my last couple days soon.

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Well, I arrived in Seattle on Friday evening. I stayed with Bob and his wonderful fiancee Etsuko. Saturday Bob had to work (ah, the joys of owning your own business), and I slept the morning away. When I finally got up I hung out in a local cafe, Java Jazz, and caught up on emails [...]

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Too tired in Spokane.

August 10, 2007

Today I drove a bit over 500 miles, and made it to Spokane Valley (just east of Spokane), WA. Winnett, MT was fun, I'll write more and post some photos tomorrow (or, I guess it's "later today" now).

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Into North Dakota

August 8, 2007

I made it across the Mississippi today! Guess that means I'm in "the West." I crossed the Big Muddy where it isn't so big, nor so muddy, in Brainerd, MN. If memory serves me right, Brainerd is the city where Marge Gunderson is from in the movie Fargo. Well, put a physics teacher behind the [...]

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David DiManna in Toledo, Millers in upper Michigan

August 6, 2007

Sunday included a drive across the last little bit of Pennsylvania, then Ohio, then a bit of Michigan. The Pennsylvania and Ohio Turnpikes were fairly uneventful, and I made it to Toledo in time to have dinner with cousin David DiManna, his son Danny, and his new gal (who I'm embarrassed to say I forgot [...]

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Virginia and Maryland: Good family

August 5, 2007

Click here for larger photos. Thursday I made it up to Flint Hill, VA to the Alexander homestead. Cousin Karen and Steve were home, as Cory was spending a relaxing summer with them (ha! she and Steve had spent the day working on one of their properties). The shock for me was the new workshop/studio [...]

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Wonderful talk by George Coyne

August 1, 2007

The capstone of my time here was a talk by George Coyne, SJ. Coyne talk was titled "Dance of the Fertile Universe: Cosmic and Human Evolution."Coyne is the former Director of the Vatican Observatory (1978-2006), and has written extensively debunking the "Intelligent Design" theory. He gave a quick history of the universe ("if the universe [...]

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So that's what it feels like...

August 1, 2007

I'm usually really good at directions. I can spend a few hours in a town and have a good sense of which way is north, where to catch the bus, where the health food store is, etc. However, for some reason I have Greensboro upside down. I keep thinking that the north direction is south. [...]

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Slow day... ?

July 31, 2007

Today was kind of a slow day. I let myself sleep in--till 8:00 I saw one plenary speaker who discussed his role in international physics education. I found it interesting at the time, but can't remember many of the details now. The second plenary speaker was Janet Guthrie, the first woman to qualify for the [...]

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Great workshops at Greensboro

July 30, 2007

I'm settled in the dorms, and have been sharing with a nice guy from outside Ann Arbor ("NOT" UM, our colors are green). He's checking out tonight, so I'll have the room to myself tonight. Sunday I spent the morning in two workshops, the first on using VPython (a computer programming language) to have students [...]

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