Finnn-land may 17, 2001 good morning. it's friday. it must be finland. i'm trying to wake up. get conscious. i'm a little hung over. jet lagged after only two to four hours sleep my first 3 nights in helsinki. the green onion-domed orthodox churches have welcomed me to this most eastern of all european cities. maya's late night-early morning tour upon my arrival revealing a crisp, cool, glimmering and golden-lit city. a mix of pristine modern and old world, eastern architecture, sitting half soberly, half drunkenly, on the cold baltic sea, like a stoic beauty still subjugated a
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 2, finnish lakes and forests, on the road north
may 23, 2001 terve amigos, (hello) see. i'm getting more finnish by the moment. out in the cold wet beautiful countryside for three days now. staying in the primeval finnish forest with a friendly but taciturn married couple of eco-biology researchers, trying to figure out which protozoa and nutrients are best for organic farming. driving a red box fiat punto through hundreds of kilometers of white birch, scotch pine, and santa claus spruce forests. through peaceful riverside towns called kotka and porvo. getting only the quickest glimpses of charming finnish towns name
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 3 ,two tall fish tales
6/1/2001 stockholm well, well, it's a new month - june - supposed to be summer - but it's still stubbornly colllld in scandinavia. i've just entered another time zone and scandic world - sweden - stockholm to be exact - via the big, bad, boring floating tourist hotel - the eleven hour, fat cat scenic cruise ship from western finland - through the gorgeous turku archipelago - across the stoic baltic sea... but first a little update- sorry i've been slightly tardy in my up-to-the-moment news report, but i've been out in the sticks again after 4
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 4, stockholm and “servas”
june 6, 2001 stockholm~ what to say about this dazzling city, crown jewel of international scandinavia? water. first water. interlocking islands like a checkerboard maze in the baffling baltic. keeping the russians out, keeping me eternally lost. walking. walking. sweet smelling lilacs in bloom. white-blossomed apple trees. tulips, violets, pansies. traipsing from one island to another. over one bridge, another. the cobblestoned old town center, gamla stan - tourists, bars, shops, shoppers, jazz clubs, bars, people pouring out into the streets day/night. skeppsholmen - the modern art m
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 5, a little bare ass rhetoric
june 16, 2001 gothenberg, sweden, Can you believe it? me and george w. doing the same tour. gothenberg. sweden. the EU conference. as you might have heard, he was greeted in this trumped up, 17th century city-by-the-sea by 15,000 pierced, drunk and political punks, hippies, commies, socialists, greenpeacers, beatniks, anarchists, guerillas, protestors, feminists, nudists, & rabble rousers, who put down their cell phones just long enough to show him their very white, bare & beautiful asses. With this is mind, it is important to choose a signific
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 4, cabin fever
cabin fever june 11, 2001 darlana, sweden hola, my vicarious swedes-- imagine -- i am somewhere in the middle of sweden - four hours by scenic train northwest from stockholm - in a groovy area called darlana -- a crater has fallen from deep space several million years ago and created this ring of lake and forest that is richer and more beautiful than the rest of the flat, un-cratered landscape. it is the heartland of rural sweden, and i am in the tiny village of evertsberg (pronounced eh-chairs-ber-uh!). it has about three hundred people in the village, one store, one meeting hal
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 6, nyooks and neesas in norway
june 21, summer solstice (midsummer) oslo, norway wow! an eye-opening week of natural wonder! what a physical and psychic chasm between the pinnacle/nadir of the economic evolution of mankind (gothenberg) and the awe-inspiring eternal beauty of fjordic norway. 1- a couple of very full touring days in oslo - seeing the 1299 castle and fortress of good king hakon V sitting dominantly and strategically above of the icy but protected harbor; the national theater of iconic and feminist, henrik ibsen; the haunting existential screams of 20th
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 7, erik, the doubting dane
end of june, 2001 hillerod, denmark kronborg ("hamlet's") castle "to be -- or not to be?" never mind. what i really want to talk about is how travel is a spiritual quest - how it makes you so - small - relatively speaking - measured over the course of time - and - simultaneously large - part of the entire history and culture of the world - part of all humans who came before you. i mean, traveling makes you have to contemplate - if your eyes and ears are open -- and you're at all attentive, curious & alive -- both the pettiness and grandness
Scandinavia, 2001: chapter 8, all good things must…
city of angels july 11, 2001 .come to an end? surprise! already home for six days. amazingly, i came home twelve days early!! to attend to my separation-anxious dear dog, his stoic guardian, my super subtenant, and to go to the boisterous mountain bachelor party of my ex-roomie, soon-to-be-married pal, todje mandela. some of you jealous motherfuckers convinced me that my self centered self indulgence and pleasure seeking traveling ad nauseum was mounting towards the irritatingly ego-maniacal, and thusly convinced, i reluctantly decided to sacrifice the
Scandinavia Photos, 2001
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