So last night was a bit of a mess. I misunderstood details and meeting times and just basically gave up. I had some Indonesian food and a glass of wine. I finished off my bottle of red in the room. I slept fitfully, in part due to the room spinning. I was trying to self […]
It’s been a few years since I’ve seen Lee Peacock. He was one of the first TravellingFit people I met during the aborted Outback Marathon of 2015 (Thanks again, Virgin Australia, for sucking bigly). He was great, as were all the TravellingFit folks. So it was great to have him recognize me as I walked […]
They can’t all be filled with adventure and mystery and fun and so forth. I’m having an off day — just can’t quite seem to get things together to get a handle on what’s happening and what’s next and what’s what. I spent the morning walking from my cheaply priced and there’s a reason for […]
A few years ago, my brother really got into opera. Last year… or maybe the year before… he and I went to catch a few performances in Santa Fe, NM. I enjoyed them, albeit not as much as he did. It’s a good night out, especially when seeing it with somebody super into it. And […]
While scrolling through these photos of my day’s wander round Berlin, I recommend you play this in the background: Quick backstory: I first heard “Das Wandren” in my Music 41 class at Carolina. The professor wanted us to know the tracks, composers, and musical information for the tests… then he wanted us to be able […]
I’m headed to the station here in Wroclaw to grab the 1300 mid-day bus to Berlin. On a frustrating note, for the second time in as many weeks, a guy sneezed on me and I awoke this morning with a sore throat and yucky drainage. I’m popping echinacea, turmeric, grape seed, suphedrine, aspirin, and spinning […]
September 11th is always a surreal day of reflection, of profound sadness. It’s why I was hoping… with hope being a weird way of phrasing this… to get out to Auschwitz today. As I said before, about the only way I could see touring that low point of humanity was to view it as a […]
Listed in Marta’s Favorites as well as in the top ten on a free Wroclaw city map, are Centennial Hall and the Japanese Gardens. The Centennial Hall (Hala Stulecia) is a large domed sports and entertainment complex originally built in 1913; it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage registry in 2006. For my purposes, […]
Today is the first day for Boston Marathon 2019 registrations. To submit a time today though you’d need to have beaten the qualifying time by 20 minutes or more. That’s not me for sure. According to the BAA’s registration date calculator, I could try and submit my time a week from today, assuming there are […]
I’ve never looked good in hats. Not baseball caps, not a top hat at Prom, not a sombrero… okay, maybe I looked okay in a sombrero. And I did wear a giant foam cheese hat for a race in Wisconsin once. But novelty hats sometimes excuse my poor chapeau show. The point is, I just […]