I’m going away. Forever. Or near enough anyways.
Personally, I blame the Coachella music festival. In 2007 my best friend, Josh, told me Rage Against the Machine was getting back together and were going to be playing near Palm Springs, CA. I was determined to go. Final exams were a problem, but significantly less so when [...]
Now that we have “Pretentious Post is Pretentious” out of the way I’ll start just documenting stuff. I originally planned to stitch that piece together along with some highlights of how things had gone so far (things were going tits up even in Edmonton), but tonally I couldn’t see a way to make it work. [...]
Rob is the kind of guy who has Cisco CCNA study guides in his bathroom as toilet reading.
Picking who to even ask to host me on Couchsurfing was an interesting exercise considering how many people in London participate. In the end Rob won despite clearly being overwhelmed with surfers because he has extensive bicycle experience [...]
I like a lot of spectator sports. Curling, hockey, and elections. So I am in luck that I arrived on the eve of the UK election. But first I need to see a hockey game. When I boarded my flight the Pandas hockey team was checking in ahead of me. I got the date, arena, [...]
Tonight is my final evening in London. Tomorrow I bike roughly 70 kilometers. More than I’ve cycled in a single day, ever. The day after I bike even more. This is somewhat worrisome. One would find it to be gut-wrenchingly scary, but instead I’ve elected to post a random picture from London as a distraction
Thats [...]
Started late today. Sometime between 0900 and 1000. Took a route along the shore to Greenwich tunnel.
So this is a tunnel that goes under the Thames. I have to carry my bike down the stairs to the tunnel itself. With the bags on. Fun. I get to the bottom and a bunch of people get [...]
A recent IM I sent:
I got off the train and was instantly lost
but then thanks to the grace of Google Maps I was found.
Our Google Maps, who art in heaven
hallowed be thy name
thy kingdom come
thy will be done
on Earth as it is in Silicon Valley
Amen
The morning in Horsham was a beautiful sunny day for riding.
I was having none of it.
I’d arrived rather battered the previous evening, and Adam took me in and we got pizza and it was all rather re-energizing. However, I was grumpy, sore, and now missing a bike glove. There was no way I was going [...]
The port in Portsmouth is something else. Imagine US border crossings with the rows of tills, cars queuing up, and the mass of ashpalt to accomodate them. Biking up to a booth intended to service cars was kind of surreal. It only got more surreal as I biked around a building and through another gate [...]
“Since I got to Europe I have not seen one toilet that works the same as another,” I think to myself. This is an odd thought all things considered. I’ve just spent the better part of an hour in the rain trying to find my hosts home. I am not in a tourist-y part of [...]
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