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I got to Heathrow tomorrow to catch a flight at 9:30 am. After a layover in New York and one in Houston, I reach PDX at 11:07 pm. Sarah has first claim to my time. After that, I hope to see many of you other delightful people. If anyone in Spokane wants to visit Portland…

Showing my family around London for a few days. It\’s a perfect temperature right now, about 68 degrees. It\’ll probably get a little too hot this afternoon. Anyway, see you folks when I get back.

The best thing about being away from the internet for a few days is being able to read a couple new xkcd strips in a row.

Some of you will think I\’m crazy, but I was bored with this part of Italy by the middle of the third day. Sure, it\’s absolutely beautiful, with dramatic jutting cliffs and grape-laden slopes upon which perch yellow and red and orange buildings in the small villages that compose the Cinque Terre. And I have…

Miraculously, there was free internet at the hotel today. But it didn\’t work, until I found a different wireless network and connected to it. Last night I stood above the city on top of an old wall and listened to the bells toll the hour. One bell rang out alone, tolling seven. Two minutes later,…

Well, we bought internet for the day at this hotel on the Swiss-German border. Tomorrow we cross the border into Switzerland and hope we don\’t run into problems due to Euro 2008 (a big football [not American] championship held there this year). My aunt says Lucerne (Luzern) is the prettiest city in Europe. It will…

We made it through Norwich and to Berlin. My dad had a bit of a stressful time driving on the left on our way to the airport in the UK, but we made it just fine. We\’ve been staying in the NW of Berlin with our exchange student Nora\’s family, and they have fed us…

Quick trip from London to Norwich with my family. We\’ll be kicking around Norwich tomorrow, trying to hit all the highlights. I will be out of contact for a while, although I might manage a post tomorrow night as well. We\’ll see.

Okay, I\’m properly ashamed. Sarah asked me where the McCain video was from, wondering what the audience was. I had watched a carefully-cut-together video that was obviously meant to be critical of McCain, without finding the original source and looking at the context. Even if the cut-together version fairly represented his statements, it still is…

First watch this video that Aaron Brown posted: Apparently John McCain has some really strange brain-thoughts. Or spatters. Or fizzlings. He thinks that America is the political manifestation of Christ\’s teachings. Does anyone else find that hard to swallow? Especially Christians, I would think. Why does he think that his faith is \”of better spiritual…