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Round and Round It Goes: March 2005
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Round and Round It Goes. Thursday, March 31, 2005. New York: My East Coast Love. I met New York for the first time recently, after years of hearing so much about her, seeing her on the television, reading about her past. It was a quickie, a fly-through and grab all you can get in three days, but it was more than enough time for me to fall in love with her. Before I got there, before I even got on the plane in Long Beach, I received an indicator of how my trip was going to go. A preface, a foreshadowi...
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Round and Round It Goes: The Fußball Fan's Dream Come True, or My Trip to the World Cup in Germany
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Round and Round It Goes. Wednesday, July 26, 2006. The Fußball Fan's Dream Come True, or My Trip to the World Cup in Germany. Note: I have tons of pics, and am still processing the B&W, so they're not even all here. The pages may take a while to load, but I tried to help you out by splitting the trip into sections based on the cities we were in. It's a mess, but here goes.). Church was bombed and rebuilt umpteen times). Albuquerque, NM June 27, 2006. The Great White Hope for U.S. soccer. To s...They shou...
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Round and Round It Goes: Am I Losing You?
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Round and Round It Goes. Thursday, October 20, 2005. Am I Losing You? The only saving grace is this guy:. Standing rather remotely behind the Chicken at the entrance to Bottle Cap Alley, this embodiment of the Aggie Spirit is almost enough to make me forget about the plastic ugliness of the rest of the changes. Alas, in life he is no more, as the Bonfire has not risen since it fell in ’99, and any Aggie will tell you we lost a lot more than twelve lives that day. Anyway, the manager could see pretty well...
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Round and Round It Goes: New York: My East Coast Love
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Round and Round It Goes. Thursday, March 31, 2005. New York: My East Coast Love. I met New York for the first time recently, after years of hearing so much about her, seeing her on the television, reading about her past. It was a quickie, a fly-through and grab all you can get in three days, but it was more than enough time for me to fall in love with her. Before I got there, before I even got on the plane in Long Beach, I received an indicator of how my trip was going to go. A preface, a foreshadowi...
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Round and Round It Goes: My Trip to Germany: Stuttgart
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Round and Round It Goes. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. My Trip to Germany: Stuttgart. Stuttgart (3rd Place Game) Later. We got lucky at the Hauptbahnhof and barely snagged a locker for our bags I had to buy a postcard in order to get change, but whatever. We got all smart and bought a round-trip ticket on the S-bahn before we read our game tickets WC ticket holders get free local transport on day of the game. Just when we’d got the hang of it. Me in the stadium at Stuttgart (J's pic). Warm-up time, and Oli...
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Round and Round It Goes: July 2006
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Round and Round It Goes. Wednesday, July 26, 2006. The Fußball Fan's Dream Come True, or My Trip to the World Cup in Germany. Note: I have tons of pics, and am still processing the B&W, so they're not even all here. The pages may take a while to load, but I tried to help you out by splitting the trip into sections based on the cities we were in. It's a mess, but here goes.). Church was bombed and rebuilt umpteen times). Albuquerque, NM June 27, 2006. The Great White Hope for U.S. soccer. To s...They shou...
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Round and Round It Goes: Into the Dublin
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Round and Round It Goes. Friday, May 23, 2008. The day has been very long. I made it harder on myself by getting so engrossed in a story I was writing last night that I didn't go to bed until 3 am (The story? Them Most of the lyrics involved some form of "Stick your f* king chariot up your ass." Ah, centuries-old rivalries. The Americans are as easy to spot as ever, with their UCLA Ts, LL Bean backpacks, and loud voices. I have to admit, I avoid them. I checked in and stowed my pack, then headed right ou...
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Round and Round It Goes: My Trip to Germany: Frankfurt
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Round and Round It Goes. Wednesday, August 16, 2006. My Trip to Germany: Frankfurt. Turns out J wasn’t terribly cranky about the train ride, but hers was much more eventful than mine. The woman and two small children moved into our compartment, and then quickly settled down. Mostly J had to listen to one guy who was a Vegas ticket broker making deals in his East coast accent on his cell phone. Walking through the city center ( hermitthecrab 2006). Our crappy view ( hermitthecrab 2006). Of course, we didn...
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Round and Round It Goes: Would I Do It Again? Yes, Please.
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Round and Round It Goes. Friday, March 18, 2005. Would I Do It Again? When I received the email from my outdoors group listserve, I responded without really thinking about it. It was like I was answering a survey about things I was mildly interested in. I somewhat strongly agreed that I was interesting in skydiving sometime in the vague future. When J, the outing leader, emailed me back saying Great! We’re going on Sunday, as in. And he had an enormous though very well-groomed Uncle Jesse/ZZ Top beard st...