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\nI kept a paper journal during my travel to, stay in, and return from Moscow. I’ll be reporting here excerpts from that journal over the next few days and weeks. I intended this to be a report on the personal experience of international travel to a critical conference, as well as my own perspectives on Moscow and the physics presented at the conference.<\/p>\n
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July 24, 2006 9:22 p.m. (PST)<\/p>\n \nI hate to travel – which may seem odd for a particle physicist. We spend our lives traveling, to conferences, workshops, seminars, the lab, and back home again. I think traveling bothers me for two reasons: the origin and the destination. I love home, and I love my work. To leave the origin is to abandon these loves, if briefly. I also love conferences, time with colleagues and dinner in foregin cities. What I hate is the travel. <\/p>\n \nI used to like airports, planes, fast food – emphasis on “used to”. Now, they are just a sad means to an end. I know that, as a scientist, the process – the journey – is what I crave. As for travel – I just hope, unlike research, I can sleep through it.<\/p>\n \nJuly 25, 2006 7:14 am (EST)<\/p>\n \nI have arrived in JFK, a little hungry and tired. Now I just need the rental care to go see my folks.<\/p>\n \n3:20 pm (EST)<\/p>\n \nAh, a meatloaf sandwich – cures what ails ya! And how did I come by such a sandwich, you ask? Well, a visit to one’s home brings such goods as these. I have just returned from my too brief sidetrack to Connecticut, refreshed (and with clean clothes and a healthy dose of caffeine). My parents and I got to spend a few hours together today, in what have become more infrequent but cherished visits. I took the two-hour-long journey in a rental car, with little heavy traffic in either direction. I felt pretty bad when I arrived in Killingworth, tired and a little ill. Three cups of coffee, a plate of eggs and pancakes, and a shower later and I was feeling fine as I talked with my folks.<\/p>\n \nNow I am back at JFK, checked in and ready for the 10-hour flight, with a slightly heavier heart than when I arrived.<\/p>\n \n4:32 pm (EST)<\/p>\n \nNot long now until we board. I’ve also now met up with the other BaBar physicists on my flight. They came in on a later Delta plane than I did. At leastI now have an assured posse in Moscow!<\/p>\n \n4:54 pm (EST)<\/p>\n \nI don’t know how, but I ended up in Group 1, meaning I got to board first. Not bad! Lotsa room for luggage and my feet. I’ve called Jodi and my parents, gave them my love,and am ready to embark to Moscow.<\/p>\n \nWhen I was younger, immersing myself in Russian novels, Russia seems so distant in time and space, the world so vast and old. Now, as I ready for a physics conference in the heart of Russia, it seems not far at all, nor the world so vast.<\/p>\n \n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I kept a paper journal during my travel to, stay in, and return from Moscow. I’ll be reporting here excerpts from that journal over the next few days and weeks. I intended this to be a report on the personal experience of international travel to a critical conference, as well as my own perspectives on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-606","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}