Hotel Benno Eindhoven

De voorbereidingen zijn in volle gang en verlopen voorspoedig. De reisroute is vastgesteld (althans, voor zover dat kan bij een trip als deze), de tickets zijn er, inclusief tickets voor alle treintrajecten. Het zal straks in de praktijk vast wel anders gaan, maar ze zijn niet zo duur en we hebben nu in elk geval een gereserveerde plaats. Meestal is het 2nd AC, op de eerste trajecten 3rd AC. Ook het visum hebben we nu. Volgende week krijgen we de typhusvaccinate, de rest was nog in orde.

De schumibruder zijn bij elkaar gekomen om de laatste puntjes op i te zetten.
Vanuit het Digitale Dorp Sambeek vertrekken we maandagmiddag (few, toch nog uitslapen maandag) naar schiphol.

De eerste tussenstop zal dan tussen de Udon noodles en de Sushi van Tokyo zijn.

Nu eerst nog zeker zijn dat de blog gaat werken, dus als je tot hier komt dan is dat alvast gelukt.

Bruder i.

... I would certainly not have been able to explain myself as easily or, heaven forbid, in Ghana, where none of those tests would have been easy, and where I would have flatly refused exploratory surgery. If it had happened there, I would certainly have headed home to Australia immediately.

So now to wait and see, for my passport, as well as my health. For those Belgians who are reading this, this is the reason I have not contacted you yet, and since I will be really taking it easy ...

... from them over the years. Although they don't speak english and we are equally proficient at dutch, we were able to enjoy each others company and acknowledge our family connection. After heading home, we stayed up watching english movies!! with dutch subtitles of course.
After having a fantastic sleep, we had breakfast and went for a bike ride. Feeling quite dutch, we rode around the quiet streets of Boukoul and into neighbouring towns where we saw Grandma ...

... first time would have clued me in I was you know what out of luck. I guess I was just expecting some kind of miracle. I waited a while to see if the door might reopen if no payment was received. Nope. Not a chance. My bag was a hostage inside a train station.

Anyone walking past me was fair game and I would ask if someone would let me pay them three Euros cash if they would swipe their card. You can imagine how that went over at 6:50 in the dark morning. Some whacko ...

... move to China! Moving to China is the exciting part, having to speak Chinese there is the scary part. Just to give you an idea of what I am actually going to do there: I am now a project manager for a firm in the Netherlands that sells advertising materials such as lightboxes, displays, neon signs etc. Most of the products ...

... feasting on the sandwiches that spun around in those automated display cases - I'm sure everyone thought I was weird, but I love pictures that show normal life. One frame of a regular day, captured forever to remind those in the future of what it was like in June of 2007 in Eindhoven one rainy Sunday evening. I love you Frank - I miss you Frank. Thanks for reading - it makes me feel better knowing that you are out there somewhere. We'll be together again soon.

... going out on the mountain bike every day. It is a nice bike ride to the gym, past fields of corn, potatoes, asparagus, and I see plenty of cows, a few sheep, a donkey farm, every day there is something different to see or smell. We had a few thunder storms and heavy flashes of rain, I got totally drenched the other day and couldn't keep my eyes open it was raining so hard. Unfortunately this was at ...

Tonight I said goodbye to my girls (Val, Krystal and Audrye) as they flew to England to be with some friends and I flew to Dublin to pick up a morning flight to the USA. It was very strange saying goodbye at a strange airport and watching them board the plane to England only to board the plane to Ireland all alone. It is much more enjoyable traveling with other people.

... us- & we followed it & we followed it -new orleans november 15-19, 1999/ amsterdam november 20-22, 1999/ new orleans december 11, 1999/ january 31/february 8, 2000/ january 11 & 14, 2003/ rotterdam january 8, 2004/ delft march 18, 2006 In Honor of the Induction into the Cannabis Hall of Fame of Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg William Burroughs & Neal Cassady at the Cannabis Cup in Amsterdam, November 23, 1999 © 1999, 2006 John Sinclair. All rights reserved.