Tag Archives: Europe

Travel Whisky

5th
Feb. × ’10
So much travel fare seems to treat travel as the concrete experience of places, people, events.  Go here, do that, eat this.  Top 10! How to!  Where, when, why: timetables, addresses, translations, names.  You will taste vinegar and you will see red phone booths and you will experience the gray established oldness of Europe.  Satisfied, [...]
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The Opposing Tendencies of Departure And Arrival

27th
Jan. × ’10
Missing Everything It is Tuesday afternoon and I’m ten minutes away from grabbing my toothbrush, replacing contacts with glasses, double checking the ol’ passport and heading out the door. And of course, what starts to creep up?  That missing feeling.  I start missing everything under the sun.  First the obvious – Jorge, the dog, my dad, the [...]
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