Eiffel Tower
France on September 13, 2008 at 5:15 pm
Figured out how to upload photos with my phone. Need to email them to flickr and I guess I can post them to blog from here. Find out pretty soon.
On Barcelona from Paris
France, Spain on September 13, 2008 at 4:57 amIf you have a postcard in transit to you I would stop reading because the card will become far less interesting in just a few sentences.
The rest of us can carry on.
Hostel was decent, but I don't think I like hostels much. Half the kids are just trying to sleep and other half is trying to bring the hostel experience they had in mind to life and both sides are mad at eachother for it.
Had all day to walk around waiting for night train.
So I walked.
I saw a vampire on the subway. Long dark hair with a streak of white in it, pale as hell, and him and his bloodshot eyes were walking in slooow motion up the stairs. I took ten steps before he took one. Then I did the old look back to make sure he wasn't eyeing my veins and he turned the corner in a way only a vampire can. Like woosh. That pretty much confirmed it for me.
Obviously Dracula was a bad omen because I'm sitting talking to my Dad and when I finished 8 little clipboard totting assholes tried to get into my backpack.
They were asking for signatures and they put 3 clipboards at your waste and the rest of em are holding boards above my backpack, I will have none of that.
So Im thowing bows at like 13, 14 year old kids.
I got hold of one by the arm and I had a none too friendly grip on him. They cruised after that nothing lost.
Barcelona doesn't wait around for dark they just get to it. Dealt with vampires, asshole thieves, and saw like 6 prostitutes working the streets before noon.
Now at a best western thinking about going to the effiel tower and notre dame.
TV is stuck on the pope, I think it's live so maybe I'll run into the pope while I'm out.
Barcelona, why not?
Spain on September 11, 2008 at 10:16 amAfter much metro-ing between the main stations in Madrid I got my ticket validated.
Me (attempting Spanish): Puede validar?
-Give him ticket-
Him: Spanish, spanish spanish?
Me: Ellos tienen una oficina aqui, si?
-Pointing to EURail logo-
Him: Te quieres?
Me: Validado?
Him: Quieres validarlo?
Me: 
I found a decent looking hostel in Barcelona that I'm off to now.
In what I would call the first class of second class. It is a single window seat at the front of the train.
There's 8 seats to 3 people.
One of em started face to face with me and he moved which is less awkward but now he's hoping seats like none suit him.
This is suppose to be a high speed train it's boogying but now I'm worried about how slow the others are.
Gonna be dark when I arrive, spooky kinda…
Fuck You AT&T
Non Geo on September 10, 2008 at 7:41 pmFuck you for charging me a $500 deposit and billing me for international service then not working when I am international because you need to have credit. I paid for phone and gave you your exorbanant deposit. Your not selling me a house it's a phone. I gave you hundreds more than your service is worth and you gave me "no service" it is really frustrating to read that when you are surrounded by folks on the phone.
I have service now that the phones in my moms name but I'm still the one paying the shit bill.
Took 1 picture today because I was busy sorting out this phone nonsense.
Packing
United States on September 8, 2008 at 11:59 pmLaid out everything I think I'm going to bring.
[The picture I had of everything laid out is mia]
-Notebook
-Train Ticket
-Map
-Passport & Copy of passport
-First aid kit
-Toiletries
-Sleeping bag liner
-Book a friend wrote
-Some mega elastics
-Power converter
-Camera & Charger
-Iphone & Charger
-Backup mp3 player & headphones
-3 undies (edit: 4, 4 undies ah…ah…ah)
-3 shirts
-2 pants
-1 shorts, 1 short, 1 pair of shorts?
-1 bathing suit
-2 wool socks
-1 pair of cotton socks
-Windbreaker
-Chamois Cloth
-Ukulele
-Tuner for the Uke Read full post »