I get too much flak from The Good Senator for not updating my blog, so... here's the first update in many moons.

In those moons, I've been a little busy; trips have included:

• Colorado Springs (January 2004, work)
  
• Detroit (January 2004, "pleasure," as much as such a notion can exist in Michigan in January)
  
• San Diego->New York (JFK)->New York (LaGuardia)->Miami->Key West->Miami->New York (LaGuardia)->New York (JFK)->San Diego (January 2004, this ridiculous trip was the most shameless kind of mileage run, leading to a free ticket anywhere Evil Airlines (which shall remain unnamed, but is sometimes abbreviated as AA) flies, resulting in the next major trip, to Argentina, this September 2004!
  
• various and regular trips to Los Angeles, mostly for work and work related things
  
• El Salvador (March 2004, I acted as an elections observer for the presidential elections, then travelled)
  
• Sacramento (May 2004, for my own wedding!)
  
• Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Guatemala (May-August 2004)
  

Pictures of the summer's galavanting in Central America are being processed (by me) as we speak (windows are open in the background), but it'll eb a while before any are really ready to display: I took a little over 1,2000 pictures, thanks to the seven 256mb compact flash cards I took with me.

Planned travel for this fall includes:

• September: Idyllwild for a NLG-LA conference
  
• September: Buenos Aires, Argentina; probably also Montevideo, Uruguay, with The Good Senator
  
• September: Colorado Springs: to see Olive Margaret, and happy parents
  
• September-October: Boston, to see A.'.C, DD, &c., and possibly meander up towards Vermont
  
• October: Birmingham: for the NLG National Convention
  
• November: Sacramento, for B&S party celebrating their marriage!
  
• November: Sacramento (yes, again), for a holiday to remember how privileged and lucky we all are, and one whose backs we stole this country.
  
• December-January: Boston, then Vermont, then Boston again

You might wonder, when will I find time to work in all of this? Well, I sort of wonder myself. Fortunately, I'm able to do a lot of my work via email, and much of my work energies this fall will be dedicated to photography and writing.