Travel: Behind the Scenes

So, in the past few months, I traveled to:
*Chicago
*Honduras
*El Salvador
*Los Angeles
*Tokyo
*Shanghai
*Hong Kong

This all sounds nice and glamorous, but in reality, I spent a whole lot of time in shopping malls and in garment factories.  And of course, I spent a whole lot of time on planes.

On the planes, I slept, read a bit, listened to some audiobooks, and did some knitting.  I worked on a non-bloggable Trekking project, some boring socks, and some more interesting socks.

Here are the boring socks.  2x1 rib, completely mindless. I got the yarn at Rhinebeck in 2005.  Geez, I have enough sock yarn to last me 10 years.  It's Lana Grossa Meilenweit Multieffekt in the most non-colorful color possible.

And here are the more interesting ones.  This yarn is a mystery to me.  I think Cari gave it to me?  (If so, thanks lady!  I love it!)  The pattern is an old one from Knitty called Straight-laced.

Since I've been back, I seem to have cast on for yet ANOTHER pair of socks, this time in Koigu.  I got this yarn as a birthday gift last year from Cynthia.  Thanks darlin'! 

The other thing I've been doing is re-photographing the stash for Ravelry.  I have a new camera, and boy does it make a world of difference.  Currently half the stash pics are new and half are old.  Perhaps in a year or so I'll get to the other half...  In the meantime, feel free to take a look at my sock yarn and tell me what socks I should knit.

On a totally different note, I just finished two audio books... Freakonomics and Middlemarch.  Interesting, because despite being completely different, both deal quite a bit with the circumstances people are born into versus the choices we are able to make for ourselves.