September 2010
1 post
June 2010
6 posts
still alive
starting a blog for traveling in africa may have been the worst idea i’ve ever had. there are cell phones everywhere, but the interweb is a bit on the elusive side. here’s what i’ve learned so far:
1) british tourists and soccer fans make me hate the brits even more than i did already.
2) leave at least 5 hours early for games.
3) a country with grills everywhere and warmish...
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r kelly is at the world cup
seriously. a travel companion, anthony got a picture of him from his cell phone. i’d try to repost it, but this isn’t my computer to download images onto and internet is weak. you’re just gonna have to believe me until i can post it.
i am staying at am heng lodge, halfway up the 1700 meter maliseberg(sp?) massive. speaking of massive, the owners, walter and karin, have a...
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tonite's the nite....
finally. 8 days worth of clothes with varying layering options, 3 scarves, two giant sheets of blank fabric, and one heavy bag of medicines, vitamins, and things that will hopefully prevent me from dying if stung by something exotic. hey, it could happen.
this is the second trip in my life where i arrive at my destination 2 days after departure. the first one was australia in 2003, crossing...
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socceroos? really?
that is easily the worst name for a sports team ever. and most of their players looked like grizzled descendants of ex-convicts. oh wait, they are.
here’s what i learned:
-scoring goals good. new, internationally unproven forwards may be the way to do this.
-letting the other team score goals bad. goodson has been slowly working his way into the international level of play, gooch is...
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countdown done did begun
a looooooooong time ago. but now it’s just a shade over 4 days away. still so much to do it’s not even funny. here’s a sampling, with details left out, cause y’all don’t really care for those. in no particular order:
-family time
-sig. other time
-laundry
-banners
-packing
-work. yeah that.
according to msn, bad trip experiences make the best stories....
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england traveled today
and at least they looked sharp. the suits don’t nearly make up for how ugly peter crouch is. he’s a goofy. also, all those suits were probably handmade. imagine being a tailor and seeing crouch walk in. i’d be pissed.
check the picture of bob bradley, deuce, and hahnemann at the end of that slideshow. that’s exactly why goalies are awesome. look at the genuine...
May 2010
1 post
9 tags
send off series over
pretty decent game in philadelphia. if you subtract the first 45 min of course. turkey is gonna be great soon. but then again so are the usa. what’s the name of that book about this? anyways…..
heres what i learned:
1) ricardo clark has no first touch. maybe he’s rusty or something, but its hard to see a scenario where i’d actually like to see him play.
2) our...