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Californaey – south, out, about, around and back up

Renting a car for a few days! Good to have own wheels –

January 2, 2010
Californaey, San Francisco

Stuck in Santa Rosa – luggage not welcome on the bus, find mysterious, non-existent Greyhound bus stop miles down the road… Not a promising start for out trip south to San Francisco.

December 29, 2009
Californaey, part I

Leaving DC – heading to Californaey

December 24, 2009
DC – the end

The worst snowstorm in over 70 years, the Washington Post says

December 20, 2009
Washington DC

Safe and sound in DC. They let us into the country without a hitch, and first day a resounding success. Utter civility…

December 18, 2009
Images from Riga

-three days in Riga

October 22, 2009
Born in medieval times. the bookbinder, the GPS and the e-book

I study digital media. I was born in the early 70′. I am a dinosaur. My fellow students are 15+ years younger than me – born in another era, on a different planet. We learn roughly the same things from opposite directions; we each hold an end of the stick.

September 4, 2009
Northern Irelands silly ghosts. Attempted murder, hahaha!

I admit I don’t really keep up with Northern Irish news much these days. It’s either desperately provincial – or just plain desperate. Yes, someone planted a bomb the other day, and yes, somebody got hurt. And I’m sure the obscure rural radio show is still going on without me. So. Some things never change.…

May 19, 2008
Beirut

The sea – most of all the sea. Coming from Damascus, two things are sights for sore eyes: the sea, and green things. I drank in green; on corners, on waste ground, balconies, flowerpots. My friends had lived in, and not really left Damascus, for a month at this point and I can only imagine…

April 10, 2008
Damascus

Damascus is a suprisingly small city- or at least it feels that way. The traffic is as maddening as you’d expect; but not quite as crazy as you’d might fear. The old city is as exotic as you’d hope, but not as impossible as you’d might be lead to believe. This is not Bankok. This…

April 9, 2008

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