I'm in Spain, most of the way between Barcelona and Valencia. Two or three hundred kilometres ago I had to stop at a toll both. I was worried because nobody was there-shit, am I supposed to have some kind of toll pass? But a machine spat a ticket at me, so ( Read more... )

Wrapping up the Torago story: (For those of you not on my friends ( Read more... )

I was packed for Confest the night before I left, and planned to head for it at 9am, after half a day's work. (My workday starts at 5am, coinciding with 10am in California.) But stuff blew up at work, so I didn't actually get on the road until 2pm, and I had a few errands to run. So it was 2am by the time we finally pulled ( Read more... )

I ended up taking Ca-65 for my drive back to the Bay Area. It's not listed as a scenic route and it probably isn't all that unlike any other state highway in the San Joaquin Valley, but the different shades of gold and yellow in the summer-heated lumpy hills were dramatic and beautiful. It reminded me of the landscape descriptions in Red Mars, ( Read more... )

Hey, look, an (almost) real-time entry! I wrote my last few entries offline ( Read more... )

There really isn't anything at Boston Market that appeals to me, but it's a comfortable place where I can chill with my laptop by a window while flamingnerd's car gets serviced down the road.

We went to Burning Toast Man over the weekend, which is a regional ( Read more... )

At that one night in Johannesburg last week, greenfizzpops and dje took me to a poly ( Read more... )

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