Mate it’s cold here ! Outside it’s so cold the ink freezes in the biro. Leaving for Rome tonight.
TL2 – Day 5 – Voir Dire – The Jury Chosen – The location established – Boston
There’s been countless articles and discussions relating to the Boston Marathon case, not only in the newspapers, but also the video media. The determination of the location of the trial has been the subject of many of them. The judges have a view to gaze out on in the icy Boston harbour as they get started this week on the Boston Marathon trial. I had taken the opportunity to get a water taxi back and forth on the Boston Harbour that quiet Sunday morning, looking for something at a CVS which was closed, due to being in the Financial district, however the Water Taxi operator cum tour guide pointed out a few of the city’s great landmarks. This was one of them of particular relevance to the population and indeed the city, state and country this week. There must be some, breathing a sigh of some relief, and yet those looking at mounting yet another appeal to the impartiality of the jury in such a high profile case.
Yet Boston is no stranger to high profile cases and looking at the building, the thought on this icy calm day was, in the end the Boston Marathon Bomber’s fate, may well be determined here.
Travelog 2 : Day 3-4 Phoenix
Looking out East to Tonto National park after a hard two days of travel and meetings. Happy I was, when one of my local colleagues takes me for a drive in his new jeep to see how it is in his country. This is Apache country and looking down from Humboldt mountain a little north east across Horseshoe Lake. The ancient volcanic ranges drifting eastward from the San Andreas fault have created such a beautiful landscape and the sunsets are just outstanding. To the south part of the Tonto are the Superstition Mountains, where the myths and legends of ‘The Lost Dutchman’s mine’ originate from the 19th century. The mine, should it exist, has since never been found. Nevertheless more travel calls and I’ll have to save solving the mystery of the missing mine for another day, and I’ll be in Boston by this evening.
TL2 – Day 2 – Dark Plane and Sky Blue Trains
Movies with the hum drum cancelled out
then the flight entertainment
system gives out !
will 14 hours go by
in the dark wondering why ?
lets reboot the system now, and again, and again
to avoid the long return to amend.
The pacific is a big ocean with few places for large planes to stop and get some repairs done. Sometime’s its best to go back and start all over having found a mechanic and done some tweaks. On more than one occasion, passengers collectively pray for a solution, or drink less water, or think lighter thoughts. Anything but have to return to Sydney and start out on that trans-pacific crossing again.
This time we were fortunate and the entertainment system for the entire plane only required 3 reboots and a cool-down to get started up and everyone breathe easy over not having to get out packs of non-existent cards and play solitaire.
Having arrived in SFO it became the battle of the trains. The sheer size of the Caltrain running north to San Fran and south into the Silicon dwarfs the little BART [Bay Area Rapid Transit] that feeds it. Its not just the length, its the height having two full layers of passengers running on powerful engines bending the tracks all the way south to at least San Jose. Even noise cancellation doesn’t operate on the Caltrain platform when that big baby rolls in. The entertainment is of course the view rolling through Silicon Valley with a sunny blue sky looking with jet-lagged eyes.
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