Oct 21st, 2008 2:31pm
Atlanta, Georgia
Terminal E, Gate 11
Well,
By the time I get to post this I will be in another country, which blows my mind.
On my flight from Dallas to Atlanta I set next to this Mexican Indian man who told me about how he owned a ranch north of Dallas and that in five years he would be done with the rat race and be able to live out there permanently with his wife. He was an IT man who worked and lived in the city and he hated it, but on the weekends him and his wife (who did pharmaceutical work) would go out on the ranch and he rounded up his cows and took them to auctions and fished in his pond. His eyes bled youth, but he was pushing 50. He told me that I was living my retirement now and said, “I guess it’s kind of like a coin some of us flip it and get heads and some of us get tails.” After our ten-fifteen minute conversation I promptly fell asleep and woke up in Atlanta and went straight for the smoking room. We said our good byes and I told Juan to be good and he chuckled at me. He said he was wearing the mask and that he’ll finally get to stop playing the “good game” when he gets to the ranch.
Oct 22nd 2008 12:28pm
Frankfurt, Germany
Airport, EUrail Hub
I find myself back at the airport after a long morning of searching for internet and looking like a complete idiot. I left the airport this morning somewhere around nine when I decided I should take a bus somewhere. I successfully got on the bus after much confusion and frustration on the part of the bus driver (who refused to speak english) and myself. I rode on the bus to Braushs… something (a suburb of Frankfurt). I wandered around for a while and I noticed that most of the cars don’t have tented windows strange… I also noticed that only half of the population speaks English haha, and that there are even fewer signs in English. So after much wandering and trying an Indonesian internet café with very little success, I decided to go to downtown Frankfurt. Or so I thought. The bus pulled up and I very slowly dragged myself to the moment of embarrassment when I pay for my bus ride and much confusion breaks out. Of course it happened. I gave him 2.20 in Euros and I end up back at the airport. Haha. So I figure I will just role with the punches and give Frankfurt another shot later. Now I am trying figure out the EUrail schedule and making an attempt at getting to Amsterdam. I am hoping that I will have better luck in the Netherlands. I am going to go have another cigarette.
Oct 22nd 2008 6:02 pm
Brussels, Belgium
EUrail Hub
I’m in Belgium?? I got on a train to Amsterdam and ended up in Brussels, Belgium. Go figure. I went to a a small little pub, Jupitar, and had a few beers and watched some forty - fifty year old men have a real good time playing darts and getting drunk at 6pm. Of course none of them spoke a lick of English, but they kept talking to me about something in some other language. Now I am chilling at a Haagen Dazs before I hop a train to Amsterdam. Still no internet. I am hungry and my backpack is heavy, but I feel pretty good from the really good beer I had.
Oct 22nd 2008 11:17 pm
Amsterdam, Holland/Netherlands
Heart of Amsterdam Hostel
I have seen more naked women in the past 30mins then I could ever dream of, and the first thing after I got a beer at the pub I got offered all sorts of exotic drugs. lol more later.
