Monday, September 15, 2008 United Airlines Flight 58 Memphis to Amsterdam It should be mentioned that I saw that horse in my neighborhood again yesterday; again the day before a long trip. This time he was ridden the wrong way down Saint Joseph by a rider talking on a hands free, blue tooth, cellular ear-piece. […]

Sunday, September 21, 2008 3rd Floor, ul. Bytomska 1, Krakow, Poland When we got off of the train from Gdansk to Krakow it was raining. It has been raining ever since we got to Poland. For all I know, it may always rain in Poland. It is a light rain and not any great trouble; […]

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 A Train from Krakow to Lviv, Ukraine, Car 27, Passenger Compartment 6 Polish Nuns Quietly Talking in the next Berth Lewis and Clark had their muskets and sextants and we have a high-powered, handheld computer and an advantageous exchange rate. I will take ready money and GPS over Manifest Destiny and […]

Friday, September 26, 2008 K Largo Bar, vul Yaroslaviv Val 22, Kiev, Ukraine “My chief would like for me to tell you that you are drinking three-hundred year old beer and that in Ukraine we are proud of architecture,” said the heavily accented voice through the static of the cell phone. The wrinkled and grinning […]

Sunday, September 28, 2008 Moscow-Chisinau Train Number 47, Wagon 11, Seat 25 The mist is just beginning to burn off of the pumpkin fields outside of the window of our 8:38AM train from Kiev, Ukraine to Chisinau, Moldova. Collin is waylaid in his bunk with a hangover you could drape Christmas tinsel on and I […]

Tuesday, September 30, 2008 Train from Chisinau, Moldova to Bucharest, Romania I was dreading this train ride like an amputation. We have had some wonderful train trips on this excursion but we have also had some ghastly ones. It might have been the crackling Ukrainian euro-pop that twittered out of some invisible speaker. It might […]