It’s funny, I wasn’t planning to sign up for a day 2. I mean, I had every intention to stay in Chamonix, and I did, but it wasn’t until yesterday around noon after I’d given my awesome rental bike back and a family was asking Pascal if he’d take them out on the trails that [...]
This is about the point where I found myself climbing what looked and felt like a near vertical grade booby-trapped with embedded boulders, tree roots, and loose rocks (and a bunch of gravel for good measure), and I thought to myself, wait, I just paid this guy to make me bike up this? I hit [...]
The old trams around town have a “ledge” in the back of each car. I’m not sure if this is a heater or part of the engine or what, but it’s pretty narrow and not really for sitting on, but if you’re short like me you can just get your entire body wedged up onto [...]
Today was a bad day. Not in the sense that anything bad happened, really, just that I didn’t feel so dapper. But whenever you’re down there’s apparently always someone who will make South African Rooibos tea for you when you’re lying on pillows in the microkitchen at work pretending that you’re not crying. Thanks, Kiwi.
We [...]
Saturday was an amazing Zurich summer day. Zurich really does have summer days like California, except better, not too hot, not too dry, and warm and lovely at night so that you can sit at sidewalk cafes in your skirt and sleeveless T. Sleeper, who I work with, and his wife Compass invited me out [...]
Thursday evening Kiwi and I were walking to the bus stop to head to my apartment and play some guitar. At the corner of Waffenplatzstrasse and Bederstrasse we heard a huge smashing of glass coming from a bus at that stop. Thinking a bicyclist had crashed into the bus and broken the window, we started [...]
We don’t celebrate the 4th of July over here, and the token English guy in our office says they don’t celebrate loss of a colony day either, so tonight I’m shooting the city at night and tomorrow I’m biking the lake. No fireworks over here. I’ll post pictures tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a [...]
You guys have me writing everywhere now. I’m writing at home, at work, on the train, at the airport, in the park, on the toi- ok maybe that’s where I draw the line. I guess this is a good thing. I believe in my writing, but like everything else in my life, I’m self-conscious about [...]
I saw these guys in Zermatt. While I could never play one of these things, I think these guys need a bit more practice.
Here’s a video of what it’s like to hang out the window while riding the red trains in Switzerland.
I am of the belief that there are places in the world, that I call “the edge of forever,” that are somehow all connected to each other in space and time and that if we could figure out how, we could walk through one and end up in the other. When I stood at the [...]
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