I uploaded many albums last week and forgot to tell you! Sorry to overwhelm all at once.

Better Iceland Tour album
Solo Iceland album
Improved Mosel(le) album
Berlin album

The captions got a little dull as I got bored.

The Ireland album will come hopefully within the week.

I'm reading Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer, and felt like sharing.

Foer interviews a gentleman (a computer engineer since the 50s) who logs everything he sees, hears and does with cameras, audio recorders and an external memory device. His goal is to not need to remember anything (he's ( Read more... )

A brief sentence on the admirable qualities of water, as considered by Leopold Bloom in James Joyces’ Ulysses:

Its universality: its democratic equality and constancy to its nature in seeking its own level: its vastness in the ocean of Mercator’s projection: its unplumbed profundity in the Sundam trench of the Pacific exceeding 8000 fathoms: the ( Read more... )

When did I become so warily unfriendly toward strangers? Maybe I do know the answer to that ( Read more... )

You'd think that for someone who's spending all day sitting around checking apartments ads, I'd have lots of time and energy for finishing up my travel posts. But when I do nothing, or when my nothing isn't going particularly successfully, I have nothing to write about and no motivation.

But I have been working on some photos. The tricky thing is ( Read more... )

In retrospect I'm surprised I didn't update more from Berlin. It was rainy every single day, and most of each day, so we tried to spend more time indoors. But the hotel internet was crap. And I suppose we weren't really there to spend our time playing on the internet anyway.
And most of the things we wanted to do were outside.

So Mike bought his ( Read more... )

Trip Leg 3 Part 1 (Ireland) is done. Another whilrwind car tour. I find them pretty exhausting. Especially when you don't start looking for accomodation until 8pm. We tried to make a rule that it had to be 6pm, and always regretted it when we ignored the rule.
I didn't send a single postcard from the country. There was no shopping of any sort apart ( Read more... )

So Ålesund turned out to be gorgeous (cute architecture and suburbs rambling from island to island), but I stayed a few hours too long (I slept in) and didn't get to Åndalsnes until just after the finals of the World Base Race which I had forgotten about. Åndalsnes is the home of base jumping. A kansas boy, all huge and muscley and not so humble ( Read more... )

I went hiking in the mountains this week. An organization, DNT, has a string of cabins throughout Norway and sells (among other things) topographic maps with trails laid out and estimated time for walking. There's a membership fee that gets you access to "self-service" and "no-service" cabins and discounts at fully "staffed" cabins.

No service ( Read more... )

This will be a short nothing post for two reasons ( Read more... )