by Eileen | Mar 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
Last night a friend of mine and I decided to go out for a dinnertime whatsis. I say whatsis because she and I have a long history of never being hungry at the same time, and one often sits and has a snack while the other one eats dinner. And so was last night. And by...
by Eileen | Mar 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Before I left Chile I did a bangup job of cleaning my apartment. No furniture unmoved, no surface undusted. As I was in the Centropuerto bus ($2 to the airport from Los Heroes metro sortof) I remembered two things that I hadn’t done that gave me pause. One of...
by Eileen | Mar 5, 2010 | Uncategorized
Today I met someone who was gifted a cow on his 50th birthday because there is a saying in Dutch where if someone asks you how your horses are, you say you’d rather have a cow. And upon having said this, he was taken at his word, and later received a cow. He is...
by Eileen | Feb 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
I have never in my life seen so many bunnies in various states of splat in my life. It was a bad day for Flopsy in the Crown Range. Bad news for bunnies, but a beautiful ride for cyclists, and a healing gouge wound on my calf where the chainring and I had a fight on...
by Eileen | Feb 16, 2010 | Uncategorized
Sometimes you may be pedaling (albeit slowly) up the first of what on your altitude map looks like the first of three spires of doom, and you may find that up at the top of King’s point/lookout, there is a family from Mumbai, all cameras and laughter and...
by Eileen | Feb 14, 2010 | Uncategorized
“Got a bit of a southerly,” said the man as he prepared my fish and egg pizza.I wish I were joking about either of these things, either the headwind I have doggedly pedalled into for the last two days, or the pizza, which I finally finished after two days...
