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sabato 16 novembre 2013

Strange Situations That Remind Me of My Birth Place


  • on the train, coming back home from a day of hard work finishing up a project: I look out of the window, it is a dark winter evening and I see a house by the train tracks, and it is an odd sight as I can discern exactly what the entrance looks like, with its walls made of planks of wood, illuminated by only ine light bulb, the garage roof overhead and a window made of horizontal glass panels. 
  • Reading a book, it is a short story by Jorge Louis Borges, and it is placed in buenos aires. I can feel the summer wind of the south, that precedes a storm, on my face, bringing relief to the extreme heat, and I don't experience it in this country, and only people from that part lf the world can understand exacly what the main character is experiencing.


Many times we perceive the world with our memories.

lunedì 25 luglio 2011

A thousand miles to Yellowstone - a journey to the beginning

So, we went on a trip...yeah...it was AWESOME - full stop.

I could very well stop there, because awesome describes very well how the trip was, but in reality, it wasn't as much how it was but what happened during this trip that makes so awesome. So...I cannot help it but to illustrate the whole trip to you.

I have split it into two parts, or two main titles. The fist part is a journey to the beginning, the beginning of us. A journey to a place where we can understand where it all started: Yellowstone.

We set off from L.A. on the 6th of July, heading east on I-15.

One of our first stops of the trip was at Peggy Sue diner, where Lele and I had been two years ago on our way to Vegas. Have to say it ain't as cool as I remember, maybe cuz it was packed to its ears with people. oh well...moving on...






This time Vegas was not in our plans...saw some of it from the highway and said our see-you-soons!



Nevada is a wild country, we usually think of it as a land of wild dreams and stuff, but we are in the desert man! We experienced it on the road with a wild wild storm and the beautiful scenery we had just by looking out of the window.







Oh, I got to explain one of our triumphs in this trip: it was a set of rules and a competition that ran between us. (thoroughly recommend it if you are traveling in more than 2 people) The set of rules were:
Rule#1: always say what you want/need.
Rule#2: don't get offended.
Rule#3: see rule #1
The competition was actually instituted the day after, so am going to leave it be for now.

This first night, after some 8 hours of drive, we stopped at St George, and this will be our home for the next 2 nights. The following day is all for Zion.