D. Todd Benson

Sunday night I got sick.  Not throwing up sick, but can’t eat high fever sore throat sick.  I slept all day Monday - I know for a fact I didn’t get up to eat at all because I would hear the dinner bell and just roll over.  Several people came to check on me, but [...]

Went on a reef trip with several others out to the third largest living reef in the world.  It was apparently a bad day for diving and it was still the most beautiful snorkeling I’ve ever seen.  The water was 8 to 15 meters (24 to 45 feet) deep but would get shallow up to [...]

S 16′ 20.508″
E179′ 18.598″

Woke up early and went to breakfast downstairs.  I called Dad from the patio while watching CNN.  The polls were just opening in many places and we were hours away from any results, but the first two complete precincts in the north east had gone to Obama.  I left for the [...]

I was less than 24 hours away from Charlotte, but I’d lost another day to the International Date line.  I was tired, dirty, stinky, hungover - but not at all surly and in a surprisingly fantastic mood.  Got off the flight, got my pack from the baggage claim and went through customs.  I went outside [...]