Thank you to all of you who have “Liked” The Word of Jeff Facebook Page. I just thought I’d take this opportunity to welcome those who have connected recently and provide a list of where else you can find my … Continue reading
This is a nifty little search engine site that my brother sent to me. The reason he sent it is that he knows I travel a lot and Goby is a search engine “that’s all about finding fun ways to … Continue reading
Here’s a car I will NEVER buy and, if I have any say in the matter, will never accept from a rental car company again when traveling. I don’t know what it is about the design of this Hyundai Accent … Continue reading
Back on the road…well “in the air” actually, today as I’ll be flying to D.C. and then a shuttle bus ride out into the country for a week of advanced training at the isolated “school.” When I was there 18 … Continue reading
Today I fly out of Lexington, Kentucky for home. I only get to be home for 2 nights though, then I fly out Sunday for a week in a suburb of Washington, D.C. and I may be going somewhere else … Continue reading
Last Friday, after leaving Daniel Boone’s grave site, I drove over to Buffalo Trace Distillery, one of the stops on Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail. My unfamiliarity with the name Buffalo Trace was explained right at the beginning of the tour when … Continue reading
I found out I’ll be leaving Kentucky on Friday, July 17th. I’ll get to spend Friday and Saturday night at home with Cindy before flying out Sunday to Baltimore Washington International aiport for a week of training at the super … Continue reading
Cindy came to visit me in Atlanta last Friday, arriving around 6pm at Hartsfield-Jackson Airport. (She has her own horror story to tell of her flight on Spirit Airlines, but I can sum it up in two words, “Never again!”) … Continue reading
That’s how I felt during the latter portion of my flight on AirTran this afternoon from Orlando to Atlanta. During the last 15-20 minutes of the flight, which was the approach to Hartsfield-Jackson, I think they let the co-pilot or … Continue reading
A few hours ago I got the call I had been expecting telling me to report to Atlanta where they’re setting up an office for this deployment. I’m flying out from Orlando Monday afternoon around 2pm and arriving in Atlanta … Continue reading
Airlines make the seats smaller (17″ to 18″ wide) and closer together so they can cram more of them into the aircraft and thus have more paying customers on any given flight, THEN say if you can’t fit into one … Continue reading
Monday night at 6:50pm I got a call from my employer directing me to rent a car and be in Valdosta, Georgia this morning (Tuesday) at 8:30am. What followed was a whirlwind of activity culminating in 3 hours of sleep … Continue reading
Here in Central Kentucky there are quite a few of the roads that were cut right through small mountains of rock, like you see in the photo below. These are not tunnels through the mountain, but more like they were … Continue reading
After I finished up my meeting in Elizabethtown last Wednesday, I had to drive another 2 hours down to Hopkinsville to spend the night and prepare for a meeting the next afternoon. I ended up booking a room at the … Continue reading
I was driving from Frankfort to Elizabethtown last Wednesday for a meeting. It was cold and it was raining. So, of course, the radio station I was listening to played this song: Seven lonely daysAnd a dozen towns agoI reached … Continue reading
So, last Friday I blogged about checking into the Doubletree in Lexington, Kentucky and how happy I was in comparison to the “Hotel-Chain-Which-Must-Not-Be-Named” that I had checked out of a few days earlier. Here’s another example of how cool it … Continue reading
Sunday I finally had a day off. I slept until 10:30 when my bladder forced me to leave the comfort of my bed. And if I haven’t mentioned before, the bed at Doubletree is EXTREMELY comfortable. I fell back in … Continue reading
I’ll be on the road today, first for an afternoon meeting in a town about 2 hours from the office, then driving another 2 hours to a town in Kentucky named Hopkinsville to spend the night before a meeting there … Continue reading
After leaving the front desk on Tuesday night, I went back to my room, got online and booked a room at the Doubletree in Lexington, a hotel that, while a little farther away, was getting good ratings from some co-workers. … Continue reading
Yes, another city and thus another hotel. But this move was a voluntary one on my part. Sort of. I’ve never been a fan of Choice Hotels (Comfort Suites, Quality Inn, etc.) but when I was in Iowa back in … Continue reading
