At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

A funny thing happened today. I bought a car, a 2006 XTerra S trim 4×4. It looks a lot like this (had to pull a stock photo because it was dark by the time I got home): Of course, while driving home from the dealership in Arlington, VA, I realized that, a) I now own [...]

No California hating taxi drivers this time. I chose the turkey sandwich over the tuna sandwich on my Continental flight, but it still sucked. Maybe it’s because I hate turkey? The weather here is horrible (raining) but it is still better than DC’s coldness (and yes, shutup, I think it is cold in DC these [...]

It’s true, Kim Jong Il and I enjoy the same TV shows. I read it in the LA Times today: North Korea’s leader apparently saw no hypocrisy in exiling people to prison camps for watching foreign media, while he personally amassed a collection of 20,000 foreign film titles. From the time that President Carter visited [...]

Lindsay wants. Oh yes, Lindsay reeeeally wants. I know what you’re thinking “OMGWTF, Lindsay, an SUV?! Didn’t you see ‘An Inconvenient Truth’?!” Yeah, I did…but the XTerra…it was so wonderful….so beautiful…soooooo powerful. Loved the movie, Al, (and the CGI polar bear drowning for lack of ice to sit on certainly tugged at the heart strings), [...]

I love the TSA, I really do. Making me put my flip flops through the x-ray machine? When did they implement this policy?! One of the great reasons for wearing flip-flops when travelling is that, unlike all those people wearing sneakers and heels and boots, you didn’t have to take your shoes off. Today, however, [...]