*04:01 pm
*12:01 am
“Those who have traveled with me before would have been impressed with my progress. Or perhaps they would have been frustrated that I chose THIS opportunity to be organized and on time rather than the occasions when my “fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants-ness” prevented us from being where we were supposed to be. (Sorry again everyone).”
“Instantly we were just a part of the group like that had always been the case and contented talk and laughter followed. In some ways we didn’t do much in Dublin, or at least didn’t do what the average tourist of the city would do, but I wouldn’t change our memories for anything.”
“A little humanity or fellow feeling goes a long way he reasons. A much longer way than absolute adherence to policy. But in a situation that was trying his patience already this woman, this “Vicky Lewis,” was really really wearing thin on his nerves.”
“Feeling cheated, I quickly opted to move to some empty seats closer and with a better view, and after a few minutes’ seats that were closer still. In doing so I became somewhat of a revolutionary, preaching my ideas of the shows worth being incumbent on actually being able to see. This was a foreign idea to our English fellow audience members who are used to having assigned seats even in a movie theater (a notion I still can’t get used to) but they quickly responded and soon we saw the trickle of them making their was down as well. I felt like Che in the smallest sense of what his name has come to represent…namely t-shirt sales”
“I rolled back over in my broken sleeping bag and woolen over jacket…. t was going to be one of those days…”
“What began as comments in almost drunken innocence erupted into drunken aggression and racism on one train. A fight began to ensue and could have gotten quite bad except for the confined space of it all. The aggressive party couldn’t actually get through the mass of sardine-packed-people to fight the others. Even if they could, the sheer confines of said people would have prevented any punches from being thrown. So instead they exchanged their vulgarities in alcohol soaked and strained throats.”
“He had such insightful commentary as well, such as: “This is a castle, they built it to keep people out…”. “
“…what’s the worst that could happen? We can always have someone wire us money or something” I said as enthusiastic as I could muster. To be honest though I really had no idea what we would do when we got off the train. We had to pay our hotel upon arrival, and if anything, I mean anything, went wrong we could really be in a bad place. After all we didn’t even have enough money to buy a Coke…”
“on the boat deck we could actually see the continent of Africa across the water. It seemed close enough to swim to. I think we were both stuck by the power and majesty of all of this, not to mention how privileged it felt to be looking at this.”
“It was like being home again. It was like the little chats we used to have before bed when we were young and shared a room. Calming and understanding, a bond earned through years of tears and laughs. “
