Entries Tagged as ‘Travels’

April 22, 2008

Cochrane Colloquium

My abstract on mixed treatment comparisons to the Cochrane Colloquium got accepted for a poster. This year, the meetings are in Freiburg, Germany, in October. Woo hoo!
We are pleased to inform you that the abstract was selected for presentation as a poster at the Colloquium.
Now I’ll need to decide if I can run the Berlin [...]

August 17, 2007

Day 2, part 2: Nebraska

After the loading up on greazy fried food and looking at the crafts, prized produce livestock at the Iowa State Fair we crawled back into the U-Haul and drove off towards Nebraska. We, meaning I, felt good about driving so instead of stopping someplace somewhat cool overnight, we made a short stop at 11pm at [...]

August 16, 2007

Day 2, part 1: The Iowa State Fair

This whole road trip wasn’t really planned out in great detail. We had a couple of ideas of where to go and what we wanted to see. Then we had nothing. So while at Scattergood we utilized the wireless internet connection to research things to do in Iowa and Nebraska. Low and behold… the Iowa [...]

August 15, 2007

Day 1: Scattergood

Picking up the U-Haul involved a trip to the Englewood neighborhood on the south side of Chicago. As we drove down the block where we were supposed to pick up our 17′ truck we noticed two-thirds of the storefronts were boarded up and a guy was sitting on the bumper of our truck drinking a [...]

August 12, 2007

House on the Rock

When I read Neil Gaiman’s American Gods years ago I was inspired to take a road trip across America. The main goal was to go to central Michigan to see the endangered Kirtland’s Warbler. But the secret main goal was to see House on the Rock, which featured prominently in the book. So I was [...]