USS Abraham Lincoln, Somewhere in the Pacific

Oh, I choreographed a dance routine on the deck of an aircraft carrier. What'd YOU do this weekend?

Detroit, Michigan

Exploring Old Detroit.

Canyonville, Oregon

This is the last night of an 18 day trip through the western US with Melissa, Max, and the dog. Tomorrow I dance in Portland, then drive home to sleep for a few days. After that it's off to Minneapolis and points east, leaving the family at home.

Amazon just started selling the digital version of my book for the heavily discounted price of exactly nothing. If you have a Kindle, an iPad (with the Kindle app), or any of those other tablet or smart phone things, you can go grab it now...which is great, since I just re-ordered a thousand print copies from my publisher.

I have no idea how the economics of that works. No one notified me or anything. I don't even know when it happened. But it's no biggee. It seems plenty of people still want a copy they can hold in their hands, so I don't think I'll be stuck with boxes in my garage forever.

I'm actually quite thrilled to have so many people suddenly reading (and apparently enjoying) it. I certainly didn't write the book to turn a profit. After I finished the video, I had so many stories to tell that it was something I very much wanted to get out of my system. I got it done, feel much better with that out of the way, so whatever happens to it now is just fine with me.

San Diego, California

We've actually managed to pay for this leg of the trip by dragging this little store-in-a-box to each dancing event. I had to hijack and empty out Melissa's suitcase to do it, which she's been surprisingly forgiving about.

Danced on the beach in Coronado on Saturday. Heading up to Los Angeles tomorrow.

Phoenix, Arizona

Traveling with a baby is harder.

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Seattle, Washington

Just finished a quick loop of the planet. I was heading west. Can't figure out if I gained a day or lost a day. I need a globe, a calendar, maybe a slide rule...and some sleep.

Seville, Spain

aaaand scene!

The Visa ad is wrapped and I'm heading home for an extended travel break.

Seville, Spain

We are filming in Seville, which happens to maybe, probably be the burial place of at least most, if not all, of Christopher Columbus.

 

He was originally buried in the Americas, as was his wish, but when Spain ceded portions of Dominica to France, they didn't want to risk losing his remains to a foreign power, so they shipped him around from place to place until he finally settled here.

Today, the Dominican Republic claims he's actually still buried in a lighthouse over there, but science assures us that at least some of him is in that box -- for whatever that's worth.

Madrid, Spain

The flight from Dubai to Madrid took us about 70 miles from Libyan airspace and less than 200 miles from the fighting in Benghazi. A strange thing to notice while you're watching "Little Fockers."

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Lacking a degree or any marketable skill, I am forced to take work wherever I can find it.

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Emirates business class en route to Dubai on the new Airbus A380.

This is the open bar in the back of the upper deck, in case the mini-bar at your seat is insufficient.

My passionate love/hate of Dubai is saddled with yet another layer of ambivalence. While I'm living out this fantasy of geek tech opulence, we are straddling the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan. And I can't help thinking someone in one of the private cabins up front is looking out the window and snickering as he twirls his mustache.

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

I heart Mongolia.