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In Search of a Promised Land: Letter 23
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In Search of a Promised Land. Wednesday, January 2, 2008. Dear Clare, Sarah and Mortgage Payers. I struggled into some tracksuit pants and opened the door to look for a place to pee and was immediately accosted by a T shirt salesman. These guys sell Turkish imitation La Coste tops to the unsuspecting tourist but at five thirty in the morning I wasn't quite prepared for a broken German T shirt sales spiel and said "Oh piss off will you? Four or five paragraphs ago I wrote "back to the flat" didn't I?
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In Search of a Promised Land: January 2008
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In Search of a Promised Land. Wednesday, January 2, 2008. A Humorous Adventure Trip Through Communist Eastern Europe and Turkey. None That's right, no acknowledgments. This is all mine I'll have you know. Each grammatical error, spelling mistake and politically incorrect statement; every time I wrote naughty and disgusting things, it’s all me, it’s all as I saw it. I don't have to acknowledge anyone.“A dedication maybe? PS If you're a publisher and like what you read here, please contact me. But back to ...
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 2
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. Tonia was expounding on art and in particular the Flemish masters while Fred, all the while, nodded in agreement. We’d been through Vermeer, Rembrandt, van Gogh and Ruebens and were now onto Pieter Breugel. 8220;Ingrained” said Tonia. 8220;ya, ingrained, dash vot I meant, ingrained.” Said Fred. I mean, if it was at seven minutes past five in the evening, his log b...
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In Search of a Promised Land: Letter 7
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In Search of a Promised Land. Wednesday, January 2, 2008. This is chapter um….7 I think it was? 8230; No, that’s not how it went. There were two horses who walked into a bar and one said to the other “that hurt didn’t it? 8221;…. no, I think I already told you about that in chapter three – or was that in the other book I’m writing, the one about porcupine taxidermy for fun and profit and how to stop your fingertips from bleeding? Truth is, I just can’t remember. But wait, wait….Oooh! I mean, I’m on...
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 7
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. There must have been some kind of deal between the Rainbow Serpent and the Pope long ago whereupon it was decided that all the good bits would be put in the middle somewhere out of range of the people. 8220;Is this where the hot spring is? 8220;Yes” I said. “It’s the fountain of youth. I was ninety two when I got here last Wednesday”. We left Douglas Hot Springs b...
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 9
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. A sleep or two out of Kununurra and we arrived in the Roadside Stopship of Turkey Creek. That’s all there was. A little further down the road was the Aboriginal community of Warmun that actually owned the roadhouse but we weren’t allowed in there unless we rang and said we were coming. We didn’t. 8221; He didn’t answer. After Turkey Creek and the Bungles another d...
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A Van Called Erasmus: December 2007
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. The above photograph concerning the sexual proclivities of Mr. Bob Vines was taken approximately half way across the Nullarbor Plain. If anybody knows the Bob Vines in question perhaps you would be kind enough to let him know what somebody had written about him over a thousand miles from civilisation. Contact the author at. Now – how many minds would come up with such an idea? Even so,...
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 10
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. I just read the last couple of sentences and I have to candidly admit that writing a book in such isolated conditions seems to be getting to me. While there was still a soupcon of daylight left in the orange glazed punchbowl of the evening sky (shit, that was impressive wasn’t it? 8221; I said. 8220;Yes” replied Linda “apiarists.”. 8220;Yeah, funny Latin innit?
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 4
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. 8221; “Yes.” I said. “Your handlebars are round the wrong way” he said. I could see Clare giggling as he told me. Queenstown’s King River is claimed by some Tasmanians to be the most polluted river in the world. A stroll along its banks close to town presents the visitor with a surreal aspect. The water is copper coloured and the rocks in it are plat...We managed ...
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A Van Called Erasmus: Chapter 11
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A Van Called Erasmus. A Funny Book From A Natural Story Teller About A Trip Around Australia. Monday, December 31, 2007. A Van Called Erasmus. On and on we went battling against a headwind and wishing we could get to where we were going in a shorter space of time. Sometimes we would fill up with fuel at a roadhouse, glance at the map, and see that we would just have to sit in the cab with nothing outside the windows worth looking at until we filled up again. Don’t we care about it? 8220;Technically yer n...
