As the old axiom goes, if you want a job done right, you've got to do it yourself. After two weeks! of gross incompetence of the airlines involved here in Chicago, a 5 minute call to London has found my bag and a reference number to give people. Now, I just need to convince Air India to ship my bag over by putting an actual goddamn claim in the ( Read more... )

Wandering about through the TC craigslist, I found this personal ad. Best personal ad ever ( Read more... )

Holy crap. Last day in Barcelona. Tomorrow I come back to the states for reals. Scary. Anyways, today I didn´t really do much. Went to another Gaudi building, La Pedrera, then kicked around a bit at a park. Visited the Erotic museum for shits and giggles, and then here I am ( Read more... )

Barcelona is nice. It´s much more relaxed than Paris, so that´s cool. I also like how they do meals here. A light breakfast, followed by a huge lunch around 2, and then light dinner around 9ish ( Read more... )

Today was much better. I got my ticket to Barcelona (cheaper than I though) and since it's my last day in Paris, spent most of it amongst the dead. I went to 2 different cemeteries and the catacombs, a huge ossuary located in an old quarry beneath Paris. It was pretty good. Saw Jim Morrison's grave, along with Sarte, Proust and Chopin ( Read more... )

Hrm. Today, not so good. It got off to a bad start early this morning (2 am to be precise) when I was roused out of bed and kicked out of the hostel. It seems the dirty fucking hippy who checked me in forget to well, check me in, and they were fully booked. So I went and paid 45 euro for a hotel for the night. Thankfully, kinda, I can stay at ( Read more... )

Woah. Amazing city. Truly remarkable. I've only been here 2 days and I'm already in love. Too bad I speak only 3 words of the language. Oh well. I've been running around like crazy, but I was thrown off today, as it seems to be daylight savings day? I dunno, but everything's an hour ahead of what it was when I landed. Hell, it probably is ( Read more... )

According to my guide book, I'm going to die soon, or at least get very, very sick. It lists the tens of thousands of ways I can die or fall ill while in India. Malaria is the big one, and since I am stupid and didn't bring malaria tablets, this has me very paranoid about mosquitoes. Also, there's dengue fever, hepetitis, Japanese encephalitus, ( Read more... )

It's been a couple of busy days here in The land of smiles. I've done the grand palace, seen the emerald buddha, gone to the weekend market, taken a boat tour of the river (lame and overpriced), seen the reclining buddha, was almost the victim of the gambling scam, and have held a conversation with a tuk-tuk driver for almost 15 straight minutes ( Read more... )

So, I'm still waiting for the world to become my oyster. Maybe it's because I haven' spent a full night here yet ( Read more... )