In the spring of 2002, just before the release of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, I went to Indianapolis for the second Star Wars Celebration. It is probably the most fun I’ve had on my own, ever.

There is a gallery of celebrity pictures from that trip below. (You can see who is in the pictures by holding your mouse pointer over the photo, or by clicking on it for more details. I have a complete gallery of all the fan photos and the celeb photos on my Star Wars site)

I’ll do another one at some point in the future with all the fans/events. That was really what made the event special– hanging out with hundreds of other people who shared my obsessions. There were lines for so many events, but the lines were where you found the most unlikely of comrades. This was the one place where you didn’t have to hide your crazy; you could wear it as a badge of honor. You could cheer along with the late-night screenings of the films, reciting the dialogue and laughing at inside jokes. And you wouldn’t even be close to the weirdest person there.

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We went to Italy last October. I’ve already done a travelog(ue) for Siena. Now, Venice!

I live close to Concord, Massachusetts, which is one of the more storied places in the United States. In April 1775, the initial conflict of the American Revolutionary war was fought on here on the old North Bridge (pictured below), after Paul Revere rode through.

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On the 13th of September, 2008, my wife and I drove up to Manchester, New Hampshire to see the man we hoped to be the next President of the United States. There was a long line of cars before you even got in to the city, starting from the expressway. And the lines at the event ran for blocks.

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