{"id":17179,"date":"2017-09-29T08:30:32","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T12:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.runkevinrun.com\/?p=17179"},"modified":"2017-09-29T13:34:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T17:34:20","slug":"the-belgian-run-part-one-point-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runkevinrun.com\/?p=17179","title":{"rendered":"September 28, 2017 – The Belgian Run, Part One Point Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m On A Bus!<\/p>\n

Is it a travel story of legend? \u00a0Nope. It’s just super boring.<\/p>\n

Sure, sure. I watched the world stream by. Pondered my insignificance on a macro, universal scale. Sniffled and coughed through what must be a re-emergence of an untreated sinus infection. But there’s nothing of import to share, no good photos (when shooting through a window of a moving bus at 100+ km\/hr, well, murky blurs are the order of the day for my skill sets).<\/p>\n

The occasional raindrop taps the roof and the side windows. We crawl along the city motorways, speed by the countryside. Shouldn’t it be the other way round?<\/p>\n

To be honest, I sorta dozed in and out of consciousness, logged in to the bus’s spotty mobile wifi and got my e-visa for Myanmar, and mainly was riding along in my autobus.<\/p>\n

But before I close this out, a quick story of relativity. We stopped at a rest stop around 1 pm for a 25 minute break, with about 76 miles to go.<\/p>\n

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First strand of relativity – 25 minutes really meant 39 minutes.<\/p>\n

Second strand of relativity – If you really wanted a 500ml bottle of either Coca Cola Light or Coke Zero, how much would you pay?<\/p>\n

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Would you believe 3,20\u20ac?<\/p>\n

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How about 3,10\u20ac?<\/p>\n

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Ok, ok… 2,60\u20ac.<\/p>\n

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What if I told you that when you walked upstairs there was a vending machine for 2 euros?<\/p>\n

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Still highway robbery (literally<\/i>, as we are on the highway), but compared to the others it relatively feels a bargain.<\/p>\n

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Plus, I needed some caffeine.<\/p>\n

Sigh – all that to save a few pennies. \u00a0But the euros\/dollars I blow on new running shoes like I was Monty Brewster looking to run through Brewster’s Millions.<\/p>\n

Double dismissive sigh on me… with a twist of lemon.<\/p>\n

And now… this.<\/p>\n

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I’m in Belgium… and THAT is a one euro Belgian waffle!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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