I spent about a day walking around in New Orleans, checking out the French Quarter and downtown. (It feels very strange watching scenes of devastation from New Orleans today on TV, when I was there only a few days ago.) I then made my way to Gainesville, GA., where I would stay at an ecological […]

As some of you might know, I had very ambitious plans for yesterday. I was scheduled to leave Fayetteville at 8:15 in the morning, spend a few hours on the bus to get to Little Rock, visit Bill Clinton’s Presidential Library for a few hours, go on to Memphis, spend all evening walking around there, […]

After having left my luggage safely in the hands of the kind populace of Fayetteville, I trudged into town to explore. I quickly found the main drag, Dickson street, got a free deodorant as a gift to incoming freshman in the bookstore, and chanced upon the university. Not only did they have a very kind […]

So I just got off the bus in Fayetteville, Arkansas, a little town half an hour from the Wal-Mart world headquarters, and two hours from Bill Clinton’s presidential library in Little Rock. It’s a tiny bus station, not Greyhound like I’m used to, but Jefferson Lines. I am not meeting my hosts for a few […]

This was on my reading list for a long time, finally picked it up at the Denver Public Library and read it in one sitting. Here are my as usual cryptic notes.

First example: put 750 marbles in a glass and have a group guess independently. The average will be very close to the truth.
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Albuquerque
I arrived in Albuquerque from Tucson at around 9AM on Wednesday, dumped my luggage and set out to explore. I walked around all day in the sun, eating some great Mexican food at a place where they were even playing one of the most popular songs down in Sinaloa (Que se queda con ganas, con […]

Just two small things I picked up on the bus trip from Tucson to Albuquerque.
Phone crime in Mexico
In Hermosillo, Mexico, criminals called several pharmacies in town, threatening the employees’ lives, and demanding that the employees scratch phonecards and read the codes over the phone (as you know, you don’t need to own the actual phonecards, […]

Travelling
When my family used to travel, they did it very differently than I do now. They’d be working hard all year, saving up vacation days and money, and then we’d often go off on a two week jaunt to for example a Spanish island, spend lot’s of money on hotels, food and airfare, and hope […]

Just some tidbits and observations (probably less interesting to people living in the US, but then again sometimes I find it interesting to hear what people coming to my country notice, that I take for granted).
Street naming
I think it’s hilarious how many streets in US cities, especially downtown, lack names. I knew from movies that […]

Just a quickie:
Even though I thought my command of the English language was quite good, I was baffled by “PED XING” that was frequently painted on the roads in Palo Alto. Turns out it means Pedestrian Crossing. Doh. Is there really not space to write all of it? I happen to find Xing a very […]