Paul says the music is “Ein Elephant für Dich” by Wir Sind Helden.

anybody know who the music artist was?

Funny that you should mention the old radio show… I’m right now coordinating a collaborative effort between UNC, RENCI, and the NHC to digitize all of the analog production masters of that show. We won’t announce it until we’re closer to having something to show, but it’s coming back… in the digital age.

I agree about daytime/ground travel. The train is my favorite for long distance; anytime I go up the east coast, I prefer to take Amtrak over flying. I don’t like to fly unless I have to go really far — like Argentina.

A very nice travel writer once recommended traveling by land and daytime as much as possible, to “feel” and see the travel happening, instead of doing the space and time warp thing that happens in an airplane at night. Of course on bicycle you will do this very well, compared to a car. But I digress.

The timelapse thing is great — hooray for your friend for doing it. And hooray for the place I’m guessing you work at. I think it’s very cool and miss the public radio interviews they used to do back in the late 80s.