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home

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This post is about being home after The Longest Way. I celebrate Christmas, take walks, and lose my hearing. I don’t know what to say. After all these years, I have finally arrived at home, and The Longest Way has reached its conclusion. The Caboose is in the car port. We’re no strangers to love, […]


the cut

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This post is about getting a haircut after seven years of being on the road. Not much else to say, really. One day of rest. One day to hang out with my brother Ruben. I took a long, hot shower. Put on some clean clothes. Had some food. Took some more pictures. Sat around. Talked. […]


one more resting day

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This post is about a day of rest in Bodenwerder. I stay in an old guesthouse and mostly just pet the cat, Smoki. The night before I had somehow made it back down from the monastery, in spite of the icy roads. There was a cafรฉ at the foot of the hill. The door was […]


a list of dwinks

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This post is about a weekend of drinking in Gรถttingen. We eat a lot of chili, and we visit the Christmas market. We spent three days in Gรถttingen. Dario was there. Bower was there. Pummi was there. I was there. The Caboose was in the parking garage. what we drank We mostly drank gin and […]


the connoisseur

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This post is about a visit to the Stรคdel in Frankfurt. I undergo some medical tests, and I look at some modern art. Aaaaand of course we got a cold. So we stayed in, ate granola, watched Futurama, and tried to get better. It took a while. diagnostics My last checkup for my MS had […]


movable type

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This post is about a visit to the Gutenberg Museum in Mainz. We have a good Turkish breakfast and marvel at flamingos. “Old books!” exclaimed the weirdo once again. And so we went to the Gutenberg Museum. Johannes Gutenberg, who is typically credited with the invention of movable type in Europe, lived here in Mainz […]


oh, when I get low

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This post is about a day of sightseeing in Worms. We see the Martin Luther Monument, the cathedral, and the Nibelung Museum. Worms was one of the places most closely associated with Martin Luther. It hadn’t gone down well with the Catholic church that Luther had asked for reforms in 1517, and a few years […]


where the Shapiros are from

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This post is about Jewish life in Speyer. We visit a museum holding the ruins of the old synagogue and the ritual bath. We stayed in Speyer for two days and looked around a little bit. Speyer wasn’t just a Kรถnigspfalz and the site of the Imperial Cathedral of Speyer, it was also home to […]


old books

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This post is about a visit to the Humanist Library of Sรฉlestat. The weirdo is there. The library has incunabula. The weirdo was going to come. Don’t ask me who the weirdo is. Anyway, the weirdo was going to come. out and about with the weirdo And the weirdo came. We ate and we drank. […]


ghost pepper

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This post is about a week of playing Dota 2 at Bower’s place. There are tears of pain (me) and tears of laughter (Bower). I ended up spending a week at Bower’s place. Seven days of cats, kids, movies, video games, computer games, walks in the forest, barbecues, and trips to the grocery store. Every […]


Return Of The Caboose

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This post is about the Return Of The Caboose. Several friends are involved in making her resurrection possible. And then, after one week, I received a call from building management: the janitor had told them that he had managed to retrieve the Caboose! Retrieve from… the scrap press? No. According to the janitor, she had […]


how the Caboose disappeared

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This post is about how the Caboose disappeared in Munich. Apparently a janitor decided to take her to a recycling yard. I had gone on a little vacation. There was a direct train from Munich to Rimini. Rimini was the place where I had lost all my stuff once, when someone had stolen my backpack […]


the longest castle

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This post is about a visit to the longest castle in the world. It’s in Burghausen, and it is long alright. I had originally been planning to cross the border to Germany at Braunau. When I checked the map, however, and read that the longest castle in the worldย was here in Burghausen, a mere day’s […]


the last guest

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This post is about a day in Engelszell Abbey. I drink beer with Pater Christian and learn that the abbey is about to be shut down. “Stay as long as you like,” Pater Christian had told me, “hospitality is the way of the Trappists.” a quiet day So I stayed for a whole day in […]


I heard they suck live

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This post is about a good time in Linz. I fix my hat, go down a tunnel, see NOFX and Rancid, and I generally have a blast. I ended up spending more than a week at Mario’s place in Linz. During this time I ate well, and I even tested a bit of Austrian vodka. […]


bye Brad

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This post is about saying goodbye to Brad in Vienna. I spend a few quiet days with my dad, and I sit on the balcony a lot. And, just like that, Brad was gone. It was only a short ride to the airport, a short walk to the security check, and then a short goodbye. […]


death and the maiden

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This post is about a day at the Belvedere in Vienna. We see The Kiss and Napoleon Crossing the Alps, and I see Death and the Maiden. It was Brad’s last day, and there were two things left for her to do. Firstly, she wanted to see Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”, and secondly, she wanted […]


Before Sunrise

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This post is about a day spent tracking down different scenes from Before Sunrise in Vienna. A good way to explore the city. Brad wanted to go and see some more places from Before Sunrise. I remembered watching that movie and hating it, but her enthusiasm felt so genuine, it was somehow contagious. don’t leave […]


Russia = terrorist state

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This post is about an exhibition of Russia as a terrorist state in Vienna. It’s also about a coffee house and the Plague Column. We started out by going to the Sunday High Mass in St. Stephen’s Cathedral, and it was awesome. They didn’t just do some sermons and some singing and a little bit […]


return of the Kantian

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This post is about a walk around Schรถnbrunn with the Kantian and Brad. We also see the defaced Karl Lueger monument. I hadn’t seen the Kantian in more than a year. Luckily, he had relocated out of Turkey, and he had come to Vienna for a visit. Brad and I rushed downtown to meet him. […]