Rodey on the Road

09:38- Train arrives in Amsterdam central station
10:11- I arrive at Hostel
10:12- Notice people smoking up in hostel
10:20- drop stuff off in luggage room and leave to wander town
10:25- Offered sex by prostitute in window
10:37- Arrive at Sex Museum
11:45- Leave Sex Museum for Van Gogh Gallery
—At this point in the day, it should be noted that the train station and hostel are at the north end of the map, the van gogh museum is located at the far south end of the map. The Anne Frank house on the west end——-
12:30- Find myself at Anne Frank House, turn around to go to Van Gogh Museum
13:15- No longer on map
13:30- No Change in position, in relation to being on map
13:35- At entrance of Van Gogh Museum
14:50- Exit Van Gogh Museum to go to Supermarket just south of museum
15:24- At train station apparently envelops all of downtown amsterdam
15:35- Arrive at hostel, put stuff in room with 13 other people in it
15:41- Leave hostel to wander
16:00- No longer on map, map deemed useless, and is subsequently discarded
16:38- Enter Coffee shop, purchase coffee
17:00- Writing Blog in internet cafe

So that’s basically how its going so far, amsterdam is an absolutely gorgeous city, the red light district and the coffee shops are as brash and abundant as you would expect, the city is very hard to navigate if your not an experienced and expert navigator and map reader like myself. The things you hear about amsterdam, like the weed and sex are only a small part of the city, the canals, the museums, the buildings…it really is an amazing city. I’ll let you know how things go tommorrow, there shouldn’t be any postings of me under the influence of some herbal remedy, as one must be 18 to go into the coffeeshops, and I am only 17. Then again, trevor is 19…

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