It was supposed to be so easy. Just get the insurance, buy the car, drive around the country for 8000 miles, sell the car, fly back home enriched and awakened for the experience, having discovered a bit about myself in the process.
Ha! Try buying insurance in the States when you don’t have a residency. Even [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
A Change In The Plan
July 9, 2008
A Tribute And An Inspiration
Well, as we’re roaming and vagabonding, I had better take my inspirations straight from the source. And so, back i go to the Beats… here is my homemade tribute to Kerouac, with a poem written and read by Ginsberg, and with the music of that doyen of the hobo night: Mr. Tom Waits.
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July 7, 2008
Guide me…
Each journey is unique. You could follow exactly in someone’s footsteps, stay in the same motels they stayed in, hit the same bars, but you’d still have a completely different experience of the trip, and thus a different opinion of it. So I was left with the trouble of figuring out who to listen to [...]
July 6, 2008
Mapping It Out
It took hours. Days even. Where shall we stop? How long will the money last? Will we die of thirst in that vast desert? Eventually we got the route planned out.
It’s a pretty vast one. About 8000 miles. But like this we were able to plan in all those places you hear about, you dream [...]
