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Array 一晃三年了，偶爾還能電話談談，如今，你又得回屏東了…哎…天下沒有不散的宴席…一切盡在祝福中…記得，有空，還是要連絡啊…事事順心日日平安怡君2003/05/20 09:55 AM你們夫妻倆下的這個決心好大！但是是個令人讚嘆的決心，希望你的老丈人在女婿和女兒的陪伴之下，能夠很安詳平和的走完人生的最後一段。祝福您及全家重言2003/05/20 10:10 AM想不到又有一個最佳損友要離開我們，那以後就沒有人可以一起講風花雪月了，真是他媽的不爽啊，你讓人覺得高興，唉啊！想到以後無聊的生活，你還是不要走好 了，你走了，就沒有人可以跟我一起賭爛了，算了，你也是不得已的，你果然是『稼槓ㄟ男子漢』，擔的起責任，你岳父的事，如果觀念上可以接受，可以嘗試生機 飲食或許會有轉機，也只能祝福你一切順利，反正你到哪裡都能安得住的啦，就這樣吧。惠翔2003/05/20 10:30 AM我今天才在早餐店遇到您，沒想到才早上就接獲您要告別花蓮的信件。真的很令人不捨，這一別，不知要在多久才能看到您了耶！嗚…嗚….您的身體不是 很好，所以照顧家人的同時也要照顧好自己的身體喔！有機會一定會到屏東去看你們的，我好久沒有看到張逸了。看看桌上，還都是他的照片呢！希望您老丈人的病 痛能減輕，心情能更開朗，歡喜。一切保重喔～～慧鈴2003/05/20 10:12 AM您是孝子, 值得效仿, 我想您與師姊一定不捨這裡的人, 情, 物, 但人因有情而相聚, 祝福您一切順心, 離別前至我們中心逛逛, 我會想念您的 !穎慧2003/05/21 11:20 AM雖然有些捨不得你們，但為孝不能等，加油！誠摯的祝福你們。不見的巧連智就算了不要在意。我們家小朋友都大了，玩玩具的機會比較少，葦葦則需要較適齡的操作性玩具。你別費心了，真的沒關係。ï¼°ï¼³：要邀我們去屏東，別忘了留下地址電話，否則我們到時在火車站吼破喉嚨也沒人理我們，離開前來開個惜別會唄！凱庭2003/05/21 11:45 AM看到這樣的主旨，實在有些感傷，不過還是要祝福你們全家人。美之2003/05/21 01:43 PM乍聞你要離開，實在很捨不得，不過有這樣圓滿的結果，真的也要恭喜你。也祝福你照顧好自己的身體，才是你家師姊和小朋友最大的幸福與支撐喔！願你們未來諸事順遂。離地工作，仍是好同事。歡迎隨時回花蓮玩，或者來信、MAIL、FAX………ANYTHING金蘭2003/05/21 05:58 PM下班前看完您的告別涵，我想您和夫人在決定離開內心曾爭扎過，但從症狀看其父親我懷疑他是失智症初中期所表現出的症狀，是否曾帶他看身心醫學科做診斷及治療，若症狀改善或許您們可以不必離開花蓮，或者接二老來花蓮住，總之祝福您。文良2003/05/22 01:13 PM我老家離潮州很近，只有幾分鐘的車程，日常用品也在潮州購買。現在因為最小的孩子在屏東，所以較常回去，有空也請來喝茶。收到信那天，已轉了一封信給老師 (純粹轉信而已)，他應該已經知道。佩賢的預產期在最近(是個小男生)，希望生產順利。天凱還是很神秘，只有偶爾來電，書琴前一陣子生了個女生。文鶯2003/05/22 09:30 AM你和秀玲做出這樣的決定，真的很可貴，如果不這麼做，就不像你們了！我爸媽也日漸年老，對於他們的晚年照顧，我也常在心裏想著，有時也會跟姊姊．弟弟．妹妹談我的想法．外在環境變動得很快，順應這些變化，祝福旭宜．秀玲早點安頓下來，多陪伴家人．憶玲2003/05/23 11:27 AM台北、花蓮、屏東，都將是你的家了！真好。現在看到的小旭宜，以後再看見應該會是大旭宜了…(然後，會開始感嘆自己老得很快 )屏東分會也是個好地方。嘿嘿！重要的是，我以後要問資料，不會忘記你在那裡的。記得寫信來報告你的分機號碼喔!!
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Cabe mencionar la multitudinaria respuesta ante el atentado que sufrió en Instituto de Educación Rural IER Waqrani, de propiedad de la iglesia Católica, el 21 de mayo de 1989 caso emblemático que recoge algunos testimonios importantes, sobre la respuesta de la iglesia ante tal hecho: “…Repudiamos este ataque en contra del Instituto de Educación Rural, como también los mismos hechos perpetrados en la granja de Chuquibambilla y del local del concejo distrital de Macarí. No era extraño que en los seminarios, encuentros, talleres y congresos dirigidos a Laicos y agentes pastorales, se abordaran temas referentes a la defensa de los derechos humanos, tal es el caso de las semanas sociales organizadas por el Instituto de Pastoral Andina (IPA), lugar de encuentro y reflexión: “…Convocar ahora a una Semana Social significa releer y anunciar el evangelio (…) Es por eso que esta Semana Social, de carácter popular, pretende concretamente generar un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de opiniones y experiencias sobre los retos y posibilidades de la región Sur Andina (…)Democratización y participación popular: Cómo hacer real la participación popular en los gobiernos locales, regionales y en las propuestas ante el estado. Las estrategias empleadas por la iglesia católica sirvieron, en la mayoría de casos, para llevar adelante esta lucha en contra de la violencia, citaremos el caso de las tiendas comunales, lugar de abastecimiento de víveres para los campesinos, las cuales eran subvencionadas por la iglesia, buscando que los campesinos accedan, a precios cómodos y en época de crisis a fuentes alimenticias, además del apoyo en la formación y capacitación de campesinos en técnicas de cultivo y ganadería mediante los Institutos de Educación Rural (IER), que más allá de ser una entidad netamente técnica, formaba y capacitaba a los campesinos en liderazgo y organización. Finalmente, sería interesante recapitular las palabras de Monseñor Albano Quinn, quien fuera Obispo de Sicuani (Cuzco) en plena época de violencia política: “Los derechos Humanos se violan no sólo por la represión, los asesinatos, sino también por la existencia de condiciones de extrema pobreza y de estructuras económicas injustas que originan grandes desigualdades.”[7] Seguros de que la memoria será una de las características fundamentales en nuestras vidas de aquí en adelante, y que esta debe volar libre cual mariposa surcando los cielos, abriéndonos al diálogo y buscando alternativas viables para el desarrollo de nuestro país, nos queda la “terca esperanza”[8] de un mundo en el que todos sus habitantes vivan en armonía, respeto, justicia y fraternidad.
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-ne Viva el Basquet, Buenos Aires - La Provincia: Participá, jugá y viví un día con Diego Maggi (Fuente http://www.laautenticadefensa.com.ar/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5162)Se desarrollará una clínica de Basquet, en el club Ciudad de Campana, el lunes 30 de junio a las 14.30, organizado por el Departamento de Deportes de la Secretaria de Salud y Desarrollo Social de la Municipalidad de Campana, con el auspicio del Programa Viva El Deporte de la Secretaría de Turismo y Deportes del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.La conducción de la clínica estará a cargo de Diego Maggi, quien además de explicar distintas técnicas y tácticas del basquet, seguramente enriquecerá el encuentro con el relato de las experiencias que ha recogido en su extensa trayectoria como deportista profesional.Con la presencia de Maggi en Campana, se enriquece un programa provincial que está teniendo muy buen resultado en todos los distritos de la provincia donde se ha desarrollado, y seguramente el éxito se repetirá en Campana.La jornada será con entrada libre y gratuita, y se espera que concurran muchos de la gran cantidad de amantes del basquet con que cuenta Campana gracias a la gran tradición que tiene nuestra ciudad.
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-ne CEREMONIA DE MEDICINA SHAMANICA Tocando la Tierra LOTO OJEDA RODRIGUEZ Además de ser terapeuta corporal, realiza hace cerca de 20 años CEREMONIAS DE MEDICINA SHAMANICAS . Estamos unidos por una deuda con nuestros antepasados y con el verdadero espíritu de la medicina….por ello el rescate y la conservación de estos conceptos de la psicología shamanica, es fundamental. El trabajo se desarrolla bajo estos propósitos esenciales: Sanación de NUESTRA RELACION con la Naturaleza y en especial con nuestra MADRE TIERRA, restableciendo nuestra conexión con la SABIDURIA PRIMORDIAL.Sanación de nuestras Raíces reconectando con la MEMORIA DE NUESTROS ANTEPASADOS. Comprensión del vinculo de interdependencia de las herencias en los vínculos familiares.Sanación de la relación con nuestra ciclos naturales y la influencia de estos en nuestra corporalidad, como una manera, de comprender: - la relación del cuerpo con la naturaleza - El rol que juega el cuerpo en el desarrollo de la sabiduría trascendente.
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(By the way, I don’t know what it is about coffee on a Saturday morning that makes me feel creative…)I used to date women back in college. haha) I would probably be married with kids in the suburbs and carrying around a pot belly.I spent a bit of time yesterday reading about female prostitution in Thailand so the idea of having sex with women has been in the back of my mind. It hasn’t been difficult.And then I thought back to my one lost love in college. He loved me back, I am convinced, but he couldn’t take the next step and admit it.
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Email me if you are bored.CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Thu 7/10/2003 3:50 PMSo I have one day left of teaching and I’ve been a bit grumpy because I have been working very hard the last few days and the weather has continued to utterly suck. allow me to begin.First off, it has rained everying single day here except two days. Anyway, the long and short was that I ate two potato dumplings and had to sit through hours of miscommunication, translation and meaningless references to the American, Lithuanian and Hungarian cultural triangle.Finally, I spend my last Saturday night going to a three hour long folk dancing ceremony held in a 10,000 capacity arena that was filled to the rim (though not with Brim).Well, it is a pretty short bitch list, but it will have to do. Now to be honest, the day after I sent the last email, I suffered a pang or two of guilt because I felt I was not fairly representing the people, culture and traditions of Lithuania, but since then after suffering setbacks too numerous to recount, I no longer feel guilty; I have not yet begun to re-acclimate myself to being back home because, for starters, the three weeks that I spent being back in NYC, 2.5 of them were spent at home being sick with the highest fever I’ve ever had as an adult. White people food (sans pizza and donuts) has never done it for me.So it’s off to Warsaw, then road trip to Krakao, Auschwitz, Prague and Bohemia, the last of which I just found out certain of my ancestors are from. Really hit the spot, if that means it made me goofy, clumsy and violently ill.We also had a little bit of an adventure this morning with the car, which is this fiesty, British racing car-green colored Russian-made Opel. I was left dreading the thought that I would have to push the car backwards while Victoria steered to get back on the highway.To be clear to all you non-Opel drivers, the gear was to the left of first and despite our best efforts to push, pull, twist and bend the gearstick, the sucker just wouldn’t budge. We were back in business.Driving on Polish roads can best be described as interesting. The roads themselves are in pretty good shape without many potholes at all, however they have settled quite a bit and there are dramatic ruts in the ground that mean when you change lanes in a tiny car, your car goes shooting on out. But since you spend most of your time either riding the middle of the road passing some ridiculously clunky car or giant coal-emitting truck or the shoulder of the road avoiding the oncoming Mercedes Benz-equivalent Mack truck, you actually don’t even spend that much time in those ruts. I believe we were the first ever American and British combo to ever stay at their hotel, because the staff was clearly surprised to see us, and made us promise to stay with them next time we were in Bochina.Cocky from the previous days driving and navigation excellence we left Bochina at around 11:30 AM (I know it’s a late start, but Victoria was nice enough to let me sleep in and she got to do a bit of swimming in their spacious 25m indoor pool). Both of us also knew that we had one long-ass day of driving ahead of us, and we were tacitly dreading driving again on the roads for at least 6 more hours.Since the hotel was directly the opposite direction of Prague we had to pass through Krakow again. We ended up re-entering Old Town, finally getting on the road we wanted, then losing it in an uncomprendingly complex and mislabeled triangular(?) rotary. In the end, after refusing to heed my suggestions for around 3 km, just as she is about to relent and head back, we see a sign for the road that we want. Now, the Lonely Planet guide had indicated that the roads in the Czeck Republic were worse than Poland, and I was fixated on the parking situation in Prague, quite rightly as it turned out. We were driving in blind.As it turned out the roads in Prague were PERFECT. The only worry spot for me was that I had read that we needed to get a permit to drive on Czeck roads, and we hadn’t been told to pick one up at the border, so I was scared that a cop would pull us over and issue some fat ticket or demand sexual satisfication from either Victoria or myself.As we approached Prague, during the space of an hour, the temperature dropped 31 degrees and it started to rain. We later went down for a beer and bean soup served in a small, hollowed-out rye bread loaf.We had a great day yesterday visiting Prague Castle, cruising around on the tram and Metro, taking a boat ride, eating Chinese food, doing our laundry (a big YEAH) and hitting up cafes left and right. Looks like this will be exclusively an Eastern European trip.So this road trip thing is actually pretty fun. While it can be hard driving in countries where you cannot read a single sign, the Michelin map I have is quality and the roads are well-labeled. Maybe it would be different if I was with a huge group of people and partying was my goal, but I dig pastoral themes, I always have.This will be a short one because I am hungry and tired from driving all day long, since I can no longer pawn that duty off on Victoria (tear, tear).CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Wed 7/23/2003 6:45 AMSo I am still alive, no additional charges on the car (Victoria should be happy), but it was a mildly harrowing journey. Now I had been dreading this return journey for quite some time, in part because I had been spoiled by Czeck roads. Mind you not too spoiled though, because one of the first things I learned once I got off the main highways in both the Czeck Repulic and Poland was that only around 50% of the roads are labeled correctly on any map. Now, I had asked myself how much would it suck to drive this little car in the pouring rain in roads that had deep rut lines in them that presumably filled on up with water, and the answer, as I had guessed correctly, was a whole fucking lot. I also passed over 500 cars, and was only passed by 84, which made me a massive net passer (when you are driving by yourself for like 7 hours, you made up stupid games, ok?).
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Array 一晃三年了，偶爾還能電話談談，如今，你又得回屏東了…哎…天下沒有不散的宴席…一切盡在祝福中…記得，有空，還是要連絡啊…事事順心日日平安怡君2003/05/20 09:55 AM你們夫妻倆下的這個決心好大！但是是個令人讚嘆的決心，希望你的老丈人在女婿和女兒的陪伴之下，能夠很安詳平和的走完人生的最後一段。祝福您及全家重言2003/05/20 10:10 AM想不到又有一個最佳損友要離開我們，那以後就沒有人可以一起講風花雪月了，真是他媽的不爽啊，你讓人覺得高興，唉啊！想到以後無聊的生活，你還是不要走好 了，你走了，就沒有人可以跟我一起賭爛了，算了，你也是不得已的，你果然是『稼槓ㄟ男子漢』，擔的起責任，你岳父的事，如果觀念上可以接受，可以嘗試生機 飲食或許會有轉機，也只能祝福你一切順利，反正你到哪裡都能安得住的啦，就這樣吧。惠翔2003/05/20 10:30 AM我今天才在早餐店遇到您，沒想到才早上就接獲您要告別花蓮的信件。真的很令人不捨，這一別，不知要在多久才能看到您了耶！嗚…嗚….您的身體不是 很好，所以照顧家人的同時也要照顧好自己的身體喔！有機會一定會到屏東去看你們的，我好久沒有看到張逸了。看看桌上，還都是他的照片呢！希望您老丈人的病 痛能減輕，心情能更開朗，歡喜。一切保重喔～～慧鈴2003/05/20 10:12 AM您是孝子, 值得效仿, 我想您與師姊一定不捨這裡的人, 情, 物, 但人因有情而相聚, 祝福您一切順心, 離別前至我們中心逛逛, 我會想念您的 !穎慧2003/05/21 11:20 AM雖然有些捨不得你們，但為孝不能等，加油！誠摯的祝福你們。不見的巧連智就算了不要在意。我們家小朋友都大了，玩玩具的機會比較少，葦葦則需要較適齡的操作性玩具。你別費心了，真的沒關係。ï¼°ï¼³：要邀我們去屏東，別忘了留下地址電話，否則我們到時在火車站吼破喉嚨也沒人理我們，離開前來開個惜別會唄！凱庭2003/05/21 11:45 AM看到這樣的主旨，實在有些感傷，不過還是要祝福你們全家人。美之2003/05/21 01:43 PM乍聞你要離開，實在很捨不得，不過有這樣圓滿的結果，真的也要恭喜你。也祝福你照顧好自己的身體，才是你家師姊和小朋友最大的幸福與支撐喔！願你們未來諸事順遂。離地工作，仍是好同事。歡迎隨時回花蓮玩，或者來信、MAIL、FAX………ANYTHING金蘭2003/05/21 05:58 PM下班前看完您的告別涵，我想您和夫人在決定離開內心曾爭扎過，但從症狀看其父親我懷疑他是失智症初中期所表現出的症狀，是否曾帶他看身心醫學科做診斷及治療，若症狀改善或許您們可以不必離開花蓮，或者接二老來花蓮住，總之祝福您。文良2003/05/22 01:13 PM我老家離潮州很近，只有幾分鐘的車程，日常用品也在潮州購買。現在因為最小的孩子在屏東，所以較常回去，有空也請來喝茶。收到信那天，已轉了一封信給老師 (純粹轉信而已)，他應該已經知道。佩賢的預產期在最近(是個小男生)，希望生產順利。天凱還是很神秘，只有偶爾來電，書琴前一陣子生了個女生。文鶯2003/05/22 09:30 AM你和秀玲做出這樣的決定，真的很可貴，如果不這麼做，就不像你們了！我爸媽也日漸年老，對於他們的晚年照顧，我也常在心裏想著，有時也會跟姊姊．弟弟．妹妹談我的想法．外在環境變動得很快，順應這些變化，祝福旭宜．秀玲早點安頓下來，多陪伴家人．憶玲2003/05/23 11:27 AM台北、花蓮、屏東，都將是你的家了！真好。現在看到的小旭宜，以後再看見應該會是大旭宜了…(然後，會開始感嘆自己老得很快 )屏東分會也是個好地方。嘿嘿！重要的是，我以後要問資料，不會忘記你在那裡的。記得寫信來報告你的分機號碼喔!!
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Cabe mencionar la multitudinaria respuesta ante el atentado que sufrió en Instituto de Educación Rural IER Waqrani, de propiedad de la iglesia Católica, el 21 de mayo de 1989 caso emblemático que recoge algunos testimonios importantes, sobre la respuesta de la iglesia ante tal hecho: “…Repudiamos este ataque en contra del Instituto de Educación Rural, como también los mismos hechos perpetrados en la granja de Chuquibambilla y del local del concejo distrital de Macarí. No era extraño que en los seminarios, encuentros, talleres y congresos dirigidos a Laicos y agentes pastorales, se abordaran temas referentes a la defensa de los derechos humanos, tal es el caso de las semanas sociales organizadas por el Instituto de Pastoral Andina (IPA), lugar de encuentro y reflexión: “…Convocar ahora a una Semana Social significa releer y anunciar el evangelio (…) Es por eso que esta Semana Social, de carácter popular, pretende concretamente generar un espacio de reflexión e intercambio de opiniones y experiencias sobre los retos y posibilidades de la región Sur Andina (…)Democratización y participación popular: Cómo hacer real la participación popular en los gobiernos locales, regionales y en las propuestas ante el estado. Las estrategias empleadas por la iglesia católica sirvieron, en la mayoría de casos, para llevar adelante esta lucha en contra de la violencia, citaremos el caso de las tiendas comunales, lugar de abastecimiento de víveres para los campesinos, las cuales eran subvencionadas por la iglesia, buscando que los campesinos accedan, a precios cómodos y en época de crisis a fuentes alimenticias, además del apoyo en la formación y capacitación de campesinos en técnicas de cultivo y ganadería mediante los Institutos de Educación Rural (IER), que más allá de ser una entidad netamente técnica, formaba y capacitaba a los campesinos en liderazgo y organización. Finalmente, sería interesante recapitular las palabras de Monseñor Albano Quinn, quien fuera Obispo de Sicuani (Cuzco) en plena época de violencia política: “Los derechos Humanos se violan no sólo por la represión, los asesinatos, sino también por la existencia de condiciones de extrema pobreza y de estructuras económicas injustas que originan grandes desigualdades.”[7] Seguros de que la memoria será una de las características fundamentales en nuestras vidas de aquí en adelante, y que esta debe volar libre cual mariposa surcando los cielos, abriéndonos al diálogo y buscando alternativas viables para el desarrollo de nuestro país, nos queda la “terca esperanza”[8] de un mundo en el que todos sus habitantes vivan en armonía, respeto, justicia y fraternidad.
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-ne Viva el Basquet, Buenos Aires - La Provincia: Participá, jugá y viví un día con Diego Maggi (Fuente http://www.laautenticadefensa.com.ar/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5162)Se desarrollará una clínica de Basquet, en el club Ciudad de Campana, el lunes 30 de junio a las 14.30, organizado por el Departamento de Deportes de la Secretaria de Salud y Desarrollo Social de la Municipalidad de Campana, con el auspicio del Programa Viva El Deporte de la Secretaría de Turismo y Deportes del Gobierno de la Provincia de Buenos Aires.La conducción de la clínica estará a cargo de Diego Maggi, quien además de explicar distintas técnicas y tácticas del basquet, seguramente enriquecerá el encuentro con el relato de las experiencias que ha recogido en su extensa trayectoria como deportista profesional.Con la presencia de Maggi en Campana, se enriquece un programa provincial que está teniendo muy buen resultado en todos los distritos de la provincia donde se ha desarrollado, y seguramente el éxito se repetirá en Campana.La jornada será con entrada libre y gratuita, y se espera que concurran muchos de la gran cantidad de amantes del basquet con que cuenta Campana gracias a la gran tradición que tiene nuestra ciudad.
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-ne CEREMONIA DE MEDICINA SHAMANICA Tocando la Tierra LOTO OJEDA RODRIGUEZ Además de ser terapeuta corporal, realiza hace cerca de 20 años CEREMONIAS DE MEDICINA SHAMANICAS . Estamos unidos por una deuda con nuestros antepasados y con el verdadero espíritu de la medicina….por ello el rescate y la conservación de estos conceptos de la psicología shamanica, es fundamental. El trabajo se desarrolla bajo estos propósitos esenciales: Sanación de NUESTRA RELACION con la Naturaleza y en especial con nuestra MADRE TIERRA, restableciendo nuestra conexión con la SABIDURIA PRIMORDIAL.Sanación de nuestras Raíces reconectando con la MEMORIA DE NUESTROS ANTEPASADOS. Comprensión del vinculo de interdependencia de las herencias en los vínculos familiares.Sanación de la relación con nuestra ciclos naturales y la influencia de estos en nuestra corporalidad, como una manera, de comprender: - la relación del cuerpo con la naturaleza - El rol que juega el cuerpo en el desarrollo de la sabiduría trascendente.
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(By the way, I don’t know what it is about coffee on a Saturday morning that makes me feel creative…)I used to date women back in college. haha) I would probably be married with kids in the suburbs and carrying around a pot belly.I spent a bit of time yesterday reading about female prostitution in Thailand so the idea of having sex with women has been in the back of my mind. It hasn’t been difficult.And then I thought back to my one lost love in college. He loved me back, I am convinced, but he couldn’t take the next step and admit it.
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Email me if you are bored.CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Thu 7/10/2003 3:50 PMSo I have one day left of teaching and I’ve been a bit grumpy because I have been working very hard the last few days and the weather has continued to utterly suck. allow me to begin.First off, it has rained everying single day here except two days. Anyway, the long and short was that I ate two potato dumplings and had to sit through hours of miscommunication, translation and meaningless references to the American, Lithuanian and Hungarian cultural triangle.Finally, I spend my last Saturday night going to a three hour long folk dancing ceremony held in a 10,000 capacity arena that was filled to the rim (though not with Brim).Well, it is a pretty short bitch list, but it will have to do. Now to be honest, the day after I sent the last email, I suffered a pang or two of guilt because I felt I was not fairly representing the people, culture and traditions of Lithuania, but since then after suffering setbacks too numerous to recount, I no longer feel guilty; I have not yet begun to re-acclimate myself to being back home because, for starters, the three weeks that I spent being back in NYC, 2.5 of them were spent at home being sick with the highest fever I’ve ever had as an adult. White people food (sans pizza and donuts) has never done it for me.So it’s off to Warsaw, then road trip to Krakao, Auschwitz, Prague and Bohemia, the last of which I just found out certain of my ancestors are from. Really hit the spot, if that means it made me goofy, clumsy and violently ill.We also had a little bit of an adventure this morning with the car, which is this fiesty, British racing car-green colored Russian-made Opel. I was left dreading the thought that I would have to push the car backwards while Victoria steered to get back on the highway.To be clear to all you non-Opel drivers, the gear was to the left of first and despite our best efforts to push, pull, twist and bend the gearstick, the sucker just wouldn’t budge. We were back in business.Driving on Polish roads can best be described as interesting. The roads themselves are in pretty good shape without many potholes at all, however they have settled quite a bit and there are dramatic ruts in the ground that mean when you change lanes in a tiny car, your car goes shooting on out. But since you spend most of your time either riding the middle of the road passing some ridiculously clunky car or giant coal-emitting truck or the shoulder of the road avoiding the oncoming Mercedes Benz-equivalent Mack truck, you actually don’t even spend that much time in those ruts. I believe we were the first ever American and British combo to ever stay at their hotel, because the staff was clearly surprised to see us, and made us promise to stay with them next time we were in Bochina.Cocky from the previous days driving and navigation excellence we left Bochina at around 11:30 AM (I know it’s a late start, but Victoria was nice enough to let me sleep in and she got to do a bit of swimming in their spacious 25m indoor pool). Both of us also knew that we had one long-ass day of driving ahead of us, and we were tacitly dreading driving again on the roads for at least 6 more hours.Since the hotel was directly the opposite direction of Prague we had to pass through Krakow again. We ended up re-entering Old Town, finally getting on the road we wanted, then losing it in an uncomprendingly complex and mislabeled triangular(?) rotary. In the end, after refusing to heed my suggestions for around 3 km, just as she is about to relent and head back, we see a sign for the road that we want. Now, the Lonely Planet guide had indicated that the roads in the Czeck Republic were worse than Poland, and I was fixated on the parking situation in Prague, quite rightly as it turned out. We were driving in blind.As it turned out the roads in Prague were PERFECT. The only worry spot for me was that I had read that we needed to get a permit to drive on Czeck roads, and we hadn’t been told to pick one up at the border, so I was scared that a cop would pull us over and issue some fat ticket or demand sexual satisfication from either Victoria or myself.As we approached Prague, during the space of an hour, the temperature dropped 31 degrees and it started to rain. We later went down for a beer and bean soup served in a small, hollowed-out rye bread loaf.We had a great day yesterday visiting Prague Castle, cruising around on the tram and Metro, taking a boat ride, eating Chinese food, doing our laundry (a big YEAH) and hitting up cafes left and right. Looks like this will be exclusively an Eastern European trip.So this road trip thing is actually pretty fun. While it can be hard driving in countries where you cannot read a single sign, the Michelin map I have is quality and the roads are well-labeled. Maybe it would be different if I was with a huge group of people and partying was my goal, but I dig pastoral themes, I always have.This will be a short one because I am hungry and tired from driving all day long, since I can no longer pawn that duty off on Victoria (tear, tear).CJ—————————————————————————————————————————————————————–Wed 7/23/2003 6:45 AMSo I am still alive, no additional charges on the car (Victoria should be happy), but it was a mildly harrowing journey. Now I had been dreading this return journey for quite some time, in part because I had been spoiled by Czeck roads. Mind you not too spoiled though, because one of the first things I learned once I got off the main highways in both the Czeck Repulic and Poland was that only around 50% of the roads are labeled correctly on any map. Now, I had asked myself how much would it suck to drive this little car in the pouring rain in roads that had deep rut lines in them that presumably filled on up with water, and the answer, as I had guessed correctly, was a whole fucking lot. I also passed over 500 cars, and was only passed by 84, which made me a massive net passer (when you are driving by yourself for like 7 hours, you made up stupid games, ok?).
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