You know you're on the road too much when you repeatedly refer to your hotel as "home", and Ben and I have both been traveling too much lately.
Lucky for us I've been able to swing some earlier flights home a couple times these past few weeks, but we've still barely seen each other since early Feb. Those early flights make for rough trips with late night flights and early morning arrivals, but it's nice to be home sooner.
First, Ben went to California for 2 consecutive weeks. The time difference and long flights are not fun to deal with on either end. We're heading to bed in New England for an early morning wake up by the time California is getting done with work.
Then I went to Colorado for a few days. I got to catch up with some friends from Ohio and meet their new addition to the world while I was there. I learned that babies can projectile vomit during burping...funny for those of us not holding Jake. I also re-learned that running doesn't work at that altitude until you're acclimated. No matter how slow or how short I plan to run, my lungs always feel like I'm sprinting within seconds and I'm cursing my motivation to run at altitude.
Then I went to Florida the next week, where I got to see a couple old friends from Tech. I also squeezed in a couple runs wearing only shorts & a T (no pants, hat, multiple long sleeve layers, gloves). The last day I ran into one of our ROTC instructors in the hotel lobby. Crazy! Unfortunately I was leaving that same day so we didn't really get to really catch up. My meeting got done early so some of us tried to catch an earlier flight since we kept hearing about terrible weather coming our way. We switched flights and moments later our new flight was delayed. Then, delay after delay came our way while our plane waited out a tornado from a nearby airport they were able to land at. Finally the weather passed, our plane made it, and we were re-booked to land in Boston 5 hours later than originally planned (yuck). The good news is the flight we switched from would have gotten in even later.
Finally, I just got home from Ohio Friday night where I got to see some old coworkers & friends from my first office. The trip sucked because it was yet another trip, but it was great to catch up with people again. I saw part of both "Dinoshark" and "Mega Python Vs Gatoroid" (staring Debbie Gibson & Tiffany...seriously, I can't make this up)...both comically terrible movies, as expected with the titles. Running was even better in Ohio with 2 days in shorts & long sleeves and 2 days in shorts & a t-shirt. Beautiful 65 and sunny twice! I also got some real hot wings, some Young's Double Chocolate Stout on tap, and managed to get an entire 6 pack of Shiner Bock safely home for Beau (hopefully he'll share with Ben & me).
We're both home for at least the next 2 weeks now. Yay!
