Tag Archives: transportation
Strasbourg, 4:30 am
A few years ago I read an article on segmented sleep, a sleep pattern that includes two or more periods of sleep, interrupted by a period of wakefulness and activity. There’s a theory that this is actually the natural pattern of human sleep, and the notion that it is proper for us to sleep in […]
horseback errands
At the Wernberg Business Center Apotheke, picking up worm medicine for the cat. And then a stop at the dairy for fresh topfen.
Icelandics in Austria
A few years ago I gave myself a quest. The quest is, master as many forms of transportation as possible. Or, at least attain some degree of competence. Some small percentage of this is a joke; it’s unlikely that I’ll achieve James Bond-ian levels of being able to flawlessly pilot (and crash) any vehicle that […]
me and my dream in northern Thailand, looking down from above
And by Dream, I mean an eggplant purple, kickstart only, unknown vintage Honda that had a gas gauge that only sorta worked and a key that, I was warned, could be removed from the ignition while running. It was on lanyard that I kept looped around the side mirror to prevent it from being lost. […]
onwards! a disjointed post about moving on from Laos to Thailand
Just as I’m starting to get the hang of one country here, my visa is up, and it’s time to move onto the next. I arrived in Thailand a few days ago, via an overnight bus from Luang Prabang. It was a 17 hour ride to Chiang Rai, which surprisingly, wasn’t all that bad. Each […]
rough and ready on Cambodia’s roads
One of my favorite Dr. Seuss books is The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Each time Batholomew removes his hat, another appears in its place, eventually becoming bigger, fancier, Dr. Seuss-ier, culminating in the befeathered, bejeweled five-hundredth hat. At least, that’s how I remember it, I haven’t actually read it in, oh, a long time. […]
Cheese Skipping 
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