May 2010
12 posts
book scavenging
while traveling i have been on the constant look out for reading material. some ho(s)tels have book exchanges but the books have been mainly in german. as i dont spekenzee deutsch i have been at the mercy of whatever english books i find, except sci fi. i have gotten desperate enough to consider sci fi but inevitably a scan of the back, describing other planets with apocalyptic technological...
i just sent this email to katie but it might be interesting/entertaining in a horrifying way to others
ok so crazy story
last night some guy walked into my room and stole my wallet
i thought the door was locked
apparently not
i woke upsaid ‘excuse me what are you doing’ as he was leaving. i was confused. and polite. what’s my problem.
anyway wallets gone. cameras and...
amandakirkpatrick:
I been unable to upload photos since I sent my laptop back to the states with my mom a couple weeks ago. They will come at some point, probably long after everyone has lost interest in my travels. In the mean time, I will retrace the many steps that make up the last 26 days. As a sidenote, I miss working on photos very much but it has definitely been a relief not to have it,...
24 hours, 4 countries, 4 currencies, 3 border crossings, no sleep and if all goes well at the israeli border i will be in dahab in time to swim in the red sea before day’s end inshallah
“Go back as far as you will into the vague past, there was always a Damascus, to...”
– Mark Twain (via)
