I met a fine gent on the ferry yesterday, on my way from London to Paris. There was some sort of fucking fire on the Eurostar, and so there we were. Wanna be Lawyer and English professor discussing politics, evolutionary biology, etc ( Read more... )

Language is funny, because people are funny. It's odd how you can go 22km and suddenly no one even acknowledges your language exists. It may help that that 22km is all water. Take however one of the most famous churches I know of "Notre Dame" which is of a fame similar to the "Empire state building" in my mind. So it would strike me as a bit ( Read more... )

1) Count up how much your mistakes are costing you ( Read more... )

While it wasn't exactly a mad dash, the "fresh" laptop battery for my trip (which I charge... well, probably well over a weekago) is now at 45% which means three hours. That wouldn't be such a big deal, but I forgot my power cord ( Read more... )

Everything is set, and now I prepare for my EuroTrip part II "the Heritage tour". This time I hope to get most of the days logged here, we'll see if that works out.

I'm getting the clutch work down, and hit 60mph today on the Expressway (as opposed to the interstate). I'm not sure how the highway is going to work, wind force is pretty significant at that speed ( Read more... )

Took the KLR out after today's picnic for a nice little cruise, it was fun. Fun may not be the exact right word, but certainly novel. Novel of course is by no means "not fun" but simply new and different ( Read more... )

I had a pretty decent ride today, but my fingers are sore. I barely took a lap before heading out to the gas station. It was busier than I expected for 8am, but not anything like a rush hour epic. I buzzed around the neighborhood for about an hour, then went back home to check the maps of where else I could go ( Read more... )

I just got my 2008 Kawasaki KLR650, and it is interesting. On day one, I dropped the clutch too quickly lurched, got twitchy and grabbed the front brake. Lets not start with how you're not supposed to drop the clutch. No one really ever tells you that the clutch is a dimmer switch on a motorcycle. What they do tell you, at length, is "Never ( Read more... )

It could be said that the snow and I do not have a chummy relationship. It seems to have a seething disdain for all human life and I, though some have argued to the contrary, am all too human. I've gone on record as saying that "Snow is nice to visit, but terrible when it visits you." Such is generally the case, but in recent years I've had such ( Read more... )