Travel makes you smarter.
Dryness and the Wheel We took a little tour south of the town today with the general goal of finding a deserted ghost town kinda place we read about. We located it on Google Earth and created a route to it from our hotel which we uploaded to our GPS. So finding the place was [...]
Lovers enjoying the sunset in Ticul, Mexico Merida loop – day 4: We slept with one ear open all night, vigilant for the voice of eviction which thankfully never came. Again without the rain-fly and again with the wet blankets at night. All in all not great sleep. Moving about camp around 5:30 just at [...]
Niels’ cute little tomato vines We got to Germany at the end of June and stayed with Zoe’s great sister in Hannover. The first week of July found us here in Clausthal in our wonderful Berg und Hüttenmännischer Verein house again with all the great boys (and girls, Katrin) who we love and who seem [...]
Garbage truck at the market in Phnom Penh The Magic Trucks that whisk your lazy throw-aways away from the high-priced suburbs and downtown business districts off to landfills in the poor villages in the country-side look the same driving around the dirty streets of Phnom Penh as they do in Chicago or Berlin. Big smelly [...]
Waste press It seems everywhere in the world people are too stupid or too lazy to separate the banana peels from the plasitc bottles; but, in Siem Reap the trash pickers sell plastic bottles, tin cans and cardboard to local recycling plants which compresses them into cubes to be sold to Vietnam and Thailand. Together [...]
Zoe passing the hitching time with literature We began a two-day fast today with a lemon & salt bowel-cleanse: it really cleans you out fast, and how! We got a hitch to Nerja from the bartender at the pub we were at and four long hours later the sun was setting and we were still [...]