The Journey Looms

Eli and I leave for Salzburg on Monday, May 17. This will be my fifth stint teaching at the university there. The assignment, in the Computer Science Department, lasts until the end of June. We'll not return to the USA until July 26, leaving us time to wander the Tirol and perhaps visit Italy. I'll keep this web log as a journal, although daily entries aren't actually contemplated.

This weekend we will pack and search for things which should be packed (air tickets and passports would be nice). Forgotten items will remain forgotten, until their memory creeps into our minds somewhere over the Atlantic. What camera?

United Airlines will take us from Spokane to Denver and then Frankfurt. A cooperating airline will handle the last hop to Salzburg where we hope to touch down in the early afternoon on May 18. My eldest, Julie, will retrieve us and our luggage and drive us across town to our lodging. Julie fortuitously found us a place with friends gracious enough to host us. Clearly, they have not met us; else this would never happen.

If all goes as scheduled, I will visit the university that same afternoon to organize the office and get connected to the network. Thursday will be one of the Catholic holy days, so no school in this Catholic country - they observe holy days (no work), but are less concerned with the less essential dogmas. In fact, I'll start work on the next Monday.

My next journal entry will start by recounting the success or failure of the Salzburg landfall. If there is no such entry within 4.7 weeks or so, please send memorial offerings to the Schweitzer Ski Patrol Hair Transplant Fund (SSPHTF). The viagra fund has been discontinued, unable to keep pace with the demand.

Richard
2004.05.12