I've never entirely understood why people enjoy reading trip reports, but they obviously do. Sometimes I like writing them, so hey, why not?

The first trip report I wrote, not counting school assignments on "What I Did Last Summer," was a fourteen-page single-spaced letter to one of my sisters, back in 1971, describing a three-week tour of Europe; since then I've probably written a couple of dozen at one time or another. Most of them are long since lost and gone.

Generally, though, when I write a trip report these days, it's online somewhere -- usually Facebook or somewhere similar. It's pretty easy to save those and repost them here, so I used to do that occasionally. I haven't in a long time, though.

Most of these originated in my topic on the old Genie Science Fiction Round Table, which is long gone, or on my SFF Net newsgroup, also defunct, but the trip reports survive. I actually have one or two more of those archived that I've never reposted...

Here's what I've posted so far:

• California vacation, 1996: Worldcon, Disneyland, etc.
• Kentucky Vacation, 1997: Mammoth Cave, camping, etc. (This one's long, and in two parts, not counting the sidelights.)
  • Part 1
    • Sidelights: Road Games
      • The Annoying Vehicles Game
      • "I Have A Question"
      • Handshark
    • Sidelights: About Ale 8 One
  • Part 2
• Small Press Expo: An annual convention in the D.C. area for creators and fans of comic books and related merchandise outside the mainstream. It's still going, but I haven't attended regularly since the turn of the century, and haven't been impressed enough to write any more reports.
  • Small Press Expo '97
  • Small Press Expo '98
  • Small Press Expo '99
• Caribbean Cruise, 1998: This was a relocation cruise from Cancun to Alexandria; the report is in eight parts.
  • Planning and Departure.
  • Three days in Cancun.
    • More of Las Ruinas del Rey.
  • Cozumel.
  • Across the Gulf of Mexico.
  • Key West.
  • Great Stirrup Cay
  • Port Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.
  • Charleston, Alexandria, and home.
• China, 2006: Not so much a trip report as a photo gallery, with captions, done directly for this version.
  • Part 1: Detroit, Beijing, and suburbs.
  • Part 2: Juyongguan and Chengde.
  • Part 3: Chengde and Beijing.
  • Part 4: Beijing and Shanghai.
  • Part 5: Shanghai and Suzhou.
  • Part 6: Suzhou and Shanghai.
  • Part 7: Shanghai and Jiading.
  • Part 8: Jiading and Shanghai.

• Convention reports:
  • Shorecon 1997

That's all for now.

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