Another Adventure

On the road again

I'm off on another trip for work. This one is entirely domestic, but it will involve both coasts before it's done. Maybe stories from America don't sound that interesting to you, so I promise not to fill your inbox every day with boring accounts of baseball games and sports bars… but tonight I'm sitting in a sports bar watching a baseball game.

My day started this morning with a text from Delta that my flight was delayed. That's Ok, I wasn't on a tight schedule and Sloan got an extra hour of sleep before ferrying me to SBN. I got to the gate and saw the plane sitting there, so I was hopeful it wouldn't turn into a long sequence of delays. Evidently the flight crew got in late last night and have a government-mandated 10 hrs rest before they're allowed to fly again.

The rest of my trip to Boston was uneventful. From Logan airport I took the T up to Revere where my hotel is. Colin doesn't get here until late tonight, so I wandered out to a local watering hole to watch the Red Sox game and read some Martin Nowak about the evolution of cooperation in preparation of interviewing him at Harvard. Here is the visual evidence:

The light isn't too conducive, but right out this window on the other side of the trees is the Atlantic Ocean. I put in three years on this coast, and two summers working at a beach just up the road, during grad school. It's fun to be back for a few days.

In case you're wondering, Colin is the producer for the podcast I host, and a frequent traveling companion. We're in Boston for a few days interviewing several people for some upcoming episodes of the Language of God.

Why couldn't you just interview them remotely, you ask? Fair question. The answer is that the centerpiece of this trip to Boston is a hands-on (literally) interview with an octopus at the aquarium tomorrow. Sy Montgomery (author of the book, The Soul of an Octopus) will meet us there and introduce us — suckers and all — to a couple of her 8-limbed friends. Hopefully I'll have some video to share tomorrow (and hopefully-ier, it won't be of me being dragged into the tank and eaten for lunch!).

Until then, let's go Sox!

Update: on the the first pitch, we gave up a home run to Kyle Schwarber of the Phillies. Ugh. But then we got the run back in the bottom of the 1st. I promise not to keep updating you on every pitch.