The trip is over and Berlin and NYC are starting to fade into memories. I do have 2135 pictures which have kept me quite busy, deleting, uploading, selecting, color correcting and transferring them to my laptop.
Being back feels like a bit of a let down. While it's wonderful to see my bed and my dogs and some of my friends again there is a bit of an emotional dip that comes when any grand undertaking comes to an end.
I'm looking forward to grabbing a beer with my buddy tonight and bringing my dogs out to the bar where they are treated like canine royalty.
For the moment I'm off to test out a potential new bike to replace my brand new and stolen steed that was lost before I left for my summer excursion. City bus travel is not sexy. Necessary at times, but not sexy. I did get to overhear a strange conversation snippet. A girthy fifty-something mustached black dude was talking to the forty-something black female bus driver. It sounded like a very dirty conversation at first.
He: "I am telling you, you are miss-missing out!"
She: "I ain't missing out on anything."
He: "I could show you the way. It would be a fingerlickin' good time."
She: "It just ain't up my alley?"
He: "Girl, I bet you ain't had anything good up yo alley like what I could give you."
She: "Why you givin' me such a hard time just because I'm a vegetarian?"
He: "It just ain't right."
Ah, bus conversations. If I was going to ride them more I could do an entire blog about them.
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- I can catch flies with my bare hands. I like Mint Chip ice cream. I was expelled from Nursery School. I like people that like me. If we were in prison together I would be the guy to talk to about procuring things. My favorite words are cumshaw, fustigate and girth.
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Probably my favourite bus conversation was overheard on the 11th of September.. two guys were sitting in front of me and the conversation went on something like this:
Dude A: "Hey, I heard people talking about the WTC thing.. you know, in America, the terrorists and all. I wonder why? I mean, it happened on 9/11 - that's like the 9th of November, right?"
Dude B: "No, dude, I think the Americans mark the date the other way around.. so it's like the 11th of September.. you know."
Needless to say I almost wet myself. I'd say they were about 10 years too old to have such a discussion.
Hope you enjoyed your trip!
I think it's actually pretty indicative of how unfazed many foreigners were by the 9/11 events.
In Spain where I was they just kept partying. The news did a montage of the towers being struck and collapsing to the tune of "New York Minute."
I had a great trip, thanks for asking. I have pics on flickr if you're interested.
well, I wouldn't mind taking a peek - where can I find them? :) (nueve@stereo88.com is my e-mail in case you don't want to put the link here)
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