{"id":2926,"date":"2018-02-13T13:47:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T19:47:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/?p=2926"},"modified":"2018-02-17T08:59:53","modified_gmt":"2018-02-17T14:59:53","slug":"travel-its-discontents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.debslunch.com\/blog\/2018\/02\/13\/travel-its-discontents\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel & its discontents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I attended the Midwinter library conference<\/a>, and it was a bit of an odyssey.<\/p>\n

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I was supposed to leave on Friday, early, but there was a snowstorm, and everything going out of Chicago got cancelled. The best anyone could do for me was a 9:00 AM flight out of O’Hare on Saturday morning, and that seemed OK. My first thing at the conference was 1:30 Saturday and I was to arrive by 10:45. I could bus to Chicago Friday afternoon, and wouldn’t have to worry about driving in the snow on Thursday night, after work, to get the train.<\/p>\n

Madison got about 6 inches of snow Thursday night. I walked to the bus, pulling my wheelie bag in the snow, and I got to Chicago around 4:30 Friday. I had dinner with John & Megan at Star of Siam. It seemed like the snow was mostly over, and the streets were really slushy. On Saturday morning, I took the Blue Line to O’Hare, again pulling my wheelie bag through the snow to get there.<\/p>\n

Landed in Denver on time, pulled my wheelie bag in the snow to the light rail, and all would’ve been well except they were doing maintenance on the train and I had to pull my wheelie bag in the snow to transfer to a bus for the last three stops. I pulled my wheelie bag in the snow to my 1:30 event, and arrived at 1:12. My next thing was at 3:00; pulled my wheelie bag in the snow there too, and arrived at 2:55.<\/p>\n

Once I got out of the 3:00 meeting at the Convention Center, I could see my hotel, so I didn’t have to pull my wheelie bag in the snow again until Tuesday morning when we left.<\/p>\n

But let’s talk about the food.<\/p>\n

Saturday night, Ethan got us a reserve at a place called Linger<\/a> – they call it an Eatuary, which seems too much like mortuary to me – but the food was good – international variants on the sandwich. There were four of us and we split a bunch of stuff: bao buns, and tacos, and sliders, and sausage, and sweet potato waffle fries with house made chipotle ketchup, and b’stilla – and we even went for the dessert – the little donuts.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/object>Sunday I went and got breakfast from the hotel free buffet – black coffee and honey nut cheerios and the banana that’d been in my backpack the whole time I was pulling my wheelie. I had a pack of peanut m&ms for lunch. I met Mark at our division’s Happy Hour, and then we went to Maggiano’s at the shopping mall 5 minutes walk from the hotel (Denver Pavilions) for dinner.\u00a0 Chopped salad and pasta carbonara with peas in it – nothing earth shattering but dependable Lettuce joint-ness<\/a>.<\/p>\n

On Monday I finally got in a long walk to the giant REI on the river walk. I bought a new metal travel mug that I think will be good for work desk mug – it’s a little heavy to lug around, and it keeps the coffee really hot.<\/p>\n

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I went back to the room and did some work and was going to wash my hair but decided to wait till we got home. We met friends at a speakeasy, Green Russell<\/a>, where we had drinks and some apps which kinda spoiled my appetite for what could’ve been the best meal of the trip, Bistro Vend\u00f4me<\/a>. we had the warm goat cheese salad, steak frites, and cauliflower gratin. The amuse bouche was mushroom soup in a little mug and the bread came in a paper bag, with unsalted butter on the side. The frites seemed to be coated with sugar to give them a good crust – a little weird but tasty. Which I’ve read is what MacDonalds does<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Steak Frites<\/p><\/div>\n

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Goat cheese salad<\/p><\/div>\n

After two drinks at the speakeasy and a glass of wine at dinner I couldn’t sleep at all and we had to get up at 5:00 am so I could pull my wheelie bag to the train to the plane to the bus to another bus to go home. A full day’s travel.<\/p>\n

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Trees with lights on the 16th St. Mall in Denver<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sunrise on the train<\/p><\/div>\n

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