and so it begins

I am off on a 24 day odyssey around the Pacific Rim and this is how today’s 18 hours of flights starts.

Say ‘hi’ to the class of Random Junior High, California, who just spent a week in DC.

I have five hours with these hooligans. Wait, make that six. We’ve just been told all flights out of IAD are grounded due to weather.

Oh stewardess, I’ll have a vodka gimlet, please!

This post appeared in its original form at DC Metblogs

Wayan Vota

Married, mortgaged, and soon to be a father, Wayan Vota is in the fast lane to mid-life respectability – until the day his brood finds his intimate journal of global traveling and curses him with the ever-eternal reply “I’m gonna be just like you, Dad!”