On Wednesday, my wife and I will pile into our little Smart car and head north up the Deadwood Trail from our little house on the prairie for the airport in Regina, Saskatchewan. We'll be gone for a while . . . but see more below the orange border fence.
If you're thinking about coming to rob my house, don't. My neighbour will be watching it, my twenty-seven pound attack cat will be guarding it, and I live next door to the guns and ammo shop with a very conservative owner.
Felix Strangelet Randomkitty, 27-Pound Attack Cat
I cannot figure out how to embed photos from Flickr on Daily Kos (nor use Firefox here either), so you get a link to the cat picture, not the embedded cat picture. (Note to moderators: update the help file here, and fix the problem with Firefox. The help button doesn't work either.)
My wife and I are driving to Regina (passing by Mount Rushmore on the way) to catch a plane. (The lengths to go to for cheaper airfare: it is cheaper for us to drive seven hundred miles and stay in hotels than it is to fly from Scottsbluff or Denver.)
We are off to a private conference/get together in Germany first, in the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd. Amongst other things, I will be meeting the mayor (who I am sure will be fascinated with meeting a village board member from a Nebraska town with 128 people in it).
Afterwards, we take a train to Gdańsk, Poland (goes to official city Website in English, see also Wikipedia's article).
My family fled that area of Poland just before the German invasion at the start of World War II in Europe. We will be staying in a hotel right next to the Danzig Post Office. (The opening battle was there, where postal officials and civilians held off an overwhelming force of Germans for some fifteen hours).
As it turns out, a first-class hotel in Gdańsk is cheaper than either of the motels in Bridgeport, Nebr. (It is also apportioned much better.)
Assuming I can get on Daily Kos while we are abroad, I will post photographs of our trip from my wife's Flickr account (likely to be links, as the pesky in-line photo function here does not work for me).
Perhaps when I get back to Nebraska, I will be able to read the death penalty has been repealed here. Keep us posted on that.