More Random

So far the most random and inexplicable things we have seen have been as follows; a spanish cabaret band at octoberfest, a tepee symbolizing some sort of protest in prague, a ford truck in budapest, a feminist rally in san sebastion, and here in zagreb two people dressed up like bees just walking down the street .

The protests here in europe are a joke. I think about all the protest i hear about or read about and maybe its that america was more publicized or that we had more people but its rediculous. OKay the french strike for the age extension was far reaching and highly trecherous to anyone trying to go through france but the strike ended, like on a specific day. We are pretty sure that they did not win and nothing was gained besides alot of backpackers being seriously pissed off for having france inbetween spain. No joke we get on a train and the entire car was going to barcellona, all of us had been delayed and rerouted and it was aweful. SO of course we pull out the booze and pass it around becaue we were actually going. We walked around with the protest against NATO in Lisbon. RIght we were in lisbon when obama was there and at first you see all these people and its cool and then you see all the police with macheties and machine guns not moving and you think yea this is a good protest something is going to happen. No nothing, we basically walked from one part of town to another and back again. We never knew what everyone was saying but it sounded cool and someone had the sense to bring a drum. But nothing really happened, at none of the protests has anything happened. But you think it will from the feeling you get from the militia of armed police and military. Maybe protesting has lost its certain zest that it did in the 60s and seventies but im not sure anything was accomplished or gained. What happened to the masses of people holding hands refusing to move, or the will and brains to actually try and appeal whatever is being protested. I dont know that much about politics but if you look at it from a military standpoint and approach it in such im sure results would be different. I'm not saying take up arms and hold the queen at knife point, but decisive clever thinking. Whatever it was interesting regardless.

We are planning on stakling garth nix in australia. Hes one of my favorite childrens authors. He just has such a briliant imagination that truely takes you to the fantasy adventure you have always wanted. Great writing enticing characters with interesting names and he has such great ways of naming things.

2:02 A.M.

cant sleep, at least there is a tv here so i have something to do. Sometimes i just have to stop reading for a while and do something that takes almost no brain power. Although you would be surprised about how much i have learned from television. I for some reason am able to recal even the most random and miniscual shows at the drop of a hat and coralate it with other prevelant shows comparing and contrasting. Perhaps i should work in television or movies, i would do well in either one. Most people i talk to about my insomnia brush it off and then talk about their own breif times. Most people like to sleep. I however do not. Sleeping is something that if i could i would give up entirely if i could. I sleep sometimes, but then i have nightmares, always nightmares. Never a good or pleasant dream. However thats almost better than not dreaming at all. Sometimes when i sleep i dont go into rem cycle so i dont even dream. I basicly close my eyes and open them without getting any rest. Did you know that after 18 hours of not sleeping you have a .08 intoxicated level. I can stay awake for 7 days, its longer than anyone ive ever met. Lots of people dont believe me when i talk about my sleeping disorders or blow it off like its not that big. However they are wrong, i would probable be completely different if i sleept better. I cant help it. Pretty sure if i took sleeping pills i would go crazy and start killing people. I wouldnt be able do disalusion my dreams from reality. Which is a problem. So i have decided to write a book about it you know it my spare time which just happens all the time. Anyway its cold in the room and everyone snores so why bother sleeping when i can just stay awake and do random things like always. Like my maze, pretty sure in zagreb if our hoste is not a crazy party place i will be doing some major mazing. Im so exited its almost done and it looks incredible.

Frost

San sebastion is worth a trip. We stayed in the best hostel with really cool people that just made it so much fun. Sure it rained every day and it was really cold but it was fun and seriously the best common room ever, everyone would just go out and play quitar we even had a waltzing matilda sing along, which just led to more australian odd songs. It was good though because they could paly the guitar really wellso it was nice. Then after a few days it was off to paris. I hated paris. It was so cold there and we had to take a train a lot earlier than we thought because they wouldnćt let any more eurail people on the night train. So we get into paris at about 1130 at night and under no circumstances would our hostel let us check in early they were very specific on the sight. So we had to stay in the train station. Which wouldnćt have been a big deal if it wasnćt below freezing. Even indoors in the trainstation it was so cold we put on all our cloths climbed in our sleeping bags and were still cold. the ground was that granite that does not get warm it just gets colder. Some how though our delierium and laughter over random things we fall asleep and wake up to find the trainstation full of people which would have been really awkward if it was our first time, Which it wasnćt. So eventuallz we make it over to our hostel and walk inside and blend into the breakfast crowd. So we check in finally at eleven and the evil french man informs us that we have to leave and come back at 3. They kick everyone out of the hostel and clean it. So i walked around and shannon walked around i went to the graveyard and she went to the museum. I saw jim morrisons grave and oscar wildes. then i just had to get home because i was so cold and couldnćt remember what it was like to be warm. Eventually we left and went to amsterdam. Saw the van Gogh museum which was incredible a little sad though, i swear america has all the best art on loan, both stary night and the coffee shop were gone. And about half of his self portraits were gone. The building in amsterdam were so cool they were all leaning on each other and just adorable. Plus it might be the best water i have ever had, it just tasted so good. It was cold, like negative 15 one day. then we went to brugge to see the ice sculpture festival. the hostel was like a reformed dorm, which would have been okay if there were other people there, and there were we just could not figure out why we were all alone at the end of the halway and they were all together. Again the most thirst quenching water ever. Still freezing, did you know that its the coldest winter in like 300 years, fuck thats cold. We drink massive amounts of tea to stay warm. And trains are now heated instead of blowing cold air at the end of november. Frankfurt was weird going and gone then to Austria. Everyone was in such a rush. We walked around Vienna and people kept hitting us with their elbows and throwing out of their walking way. I think everyone should go to america and learn how to walk around the streets and not touch each other because it just drove me crazy all i wanted to do at the end of the day was walk around with my arms straight out and just spin and slowly work my way home. Its a little warmer in slovenia, but not by much. We are pretty much looking forward to prague though. It will be freezing, but we remember it so well and we are going to drink lots of coffee and warm wine. However cold it is i still bear in mind that i have not put on all my layers so im not the point of death cold just slightly colder in a way that makes you want to jazersize.

TV

My top 5 shows of all time are as follows
1. dead like me
In my opinion a flawless show. Not only is the storyline solid but creative and fresh. The characters are deep and mysterious yet seemingly congenial. The writing and musical atributes set the mood for a daughnting yet somewhat contemplative tone on the verge of amusing and funny. The actual filming is nothing special until you see the scenes that are filmed in the car when peole are talking, all you see is the back of the seats unless they look at the person they are talking to which leaves you with a sidelong glance and the words you were forced to listen to.

2. 3rd rock from the sun
Downright the the most hilarious show ever made. I mean what show can boast that it has the ability to be flamboyant and crazy and be better that way. We couldnºt imagine it any other way. Each actor works so smothly together and each one is in a solid performace that you wonder why peole watch the crap on tv with dreadful actors paroting lines with acting school emotion when you can be watching a show that you feel for and laugh at the same time.

3. death note
The anime has a deep mohogony coloring to it. When you watch it it is interesting, until you compare it to other animeºs. then you see that they deep time in developing the actual animation, you can see it in their hair, literally individual strands. Usually its a jagged shade of a color.

4. the twilight zone (original version with rod serling)
Correct me if iºm wrong but i will gladly into a knife fight with anyone that doesnºt agree that the twilight zone is the most creative show ever made in history. Each story is sinister and awe inspiring. You watch one, maybe not the best one so you try another. Then you are hooked there are not two stories alike enough that you would become bored. Itºs on my list of shows i want to own the entire season off.

5. warehouse 13/Eureka
Warehouse 13 grows on you. The storylines are simple the characters not to mind boggling, yet you canºt stop. The next artifact you recognize the name you wonder what it can do why. Then you start thinking of everyone in history and what sort of artifact and what kind of artifact they would produce. You canºt resist. You have to love the intrigue.
Eureka is a dream. A place on earth where the greatest minds get together and create invention. Not all that have to be usfull but in a way are. Think about it. Watch it youºll think about all the artifacts we could have and end up at the same conclusion as me "fuck why hasnºt the world produced a shrink ray yet, Eureka we need you".

I watch tv here almost as a novelty, but itºs nice to hear the language with a show that you know.

Germany only music videos.
Czech Republic good music videos and interesting translation but not all translated shows
Hungary had blocks, all show, then block of commercials, then all show, Plus cartoons it rocked
Romania, did not watch
Greece Only music videos, not good ones.
Italy awesome shows i watched the fly the village and the hills have eyes 2 in german, only german, all the channels were in german.
Spain music videos
Portugal great movie channels, quiz show, and beverly hills cop 2

I donºt miss tv moslty because like most i have ruled it out yet i miss
The Closer
Bones
Warehouse 13
and any reality tv, i love to laugh and itºs ridiculous

Two shows i think about on a daily basis are The Pretender Early Edition and Justice League Unlimited

I watch my anime online and read it online so i donºt miss that but i will come back and sit down with my computer and watch all the episodes i have missed.

I worry for tv future. I know i have my favorites and i have my personal opinion but honestly some of the the shows on today, it makes me want to get a gun and kill everyone involved so that they can just stop existing. Then the gap would leave room for shows are new and original. It makes me want to get into telivion. I mean who else would be better suited i have watched almost every show ever made and can judge it from a professional standpoint. Fuck now itºs on my ever growing list of jobs im sure i would do smashing in. Uh like usual iºll go with the flow like usual and let myself be guided to a decision somehow, the future. . .

Dead People

So we went out for a walk and we walked to this bridge intending to cross it. There was a giant jesus on the other side we had to check it out. The bridge was maybe an hour away but weºve walked further however when we finally get to the bridge we realise that we canºt walk on it. At all, unless we wanted to wedge ourselves between the metal railing and the fence. So we just start walking around and spot a graveyard so we set out to find it. It takes us another hour to actually get to it we had to take all these side streets up cobblestone hell. So were walking around and the graveyard is beautiful, all these stone crypts and statues. As we continue walking we inspect the crypts and realise that on alot of the doors the glass is broken and bars are bent like someone was throwing rocks into the crypts. These ones of course have no dates of the deceased but we have great views of the coffins. So we keep walking around a little weirded out inspecting the broken crypts in the smell of decaying flesh on a hot day and suddenly i see a hole in the wall and lieteraly the coffins were coming out of the ground. Like someone had taken off part of the wall and decided to move the things around. Now the novelty has hit us and itºs began to be a little funny when we see a bunch of cats. I can only imagine what these cats are doing here. Walking around more we come across the crypts and the doors are so rusted they were just leaning against the walls not even slightly connected to anything. The coffins were starting to disintigrate and come apart we didnºt want to get to close and get some dead boddy disuise but we had a great hypothetical sitiuation were someone is visiting her grandma and just walkes up and opens the door and lifts up the coffin lid and starts painting her nails. As sheºs pianting a finger breaks off so she says aloud "o grandma youºre no fun anymore, grandpa can you believe this.".

Criminal

So the the reason why i was so angry and mad and hatting the world in milan is because of my shoes. In prague i tripped on the cobblestone allyways and the right soul started to fall of. No big deal i just safety pin it together and everythings as right as rain. Next iºm in greece and i notice that the left soul is coming off. Pretty much the whole thing is falling off. I try and safety pin in but itºs not working and all i can think is that iºll fix it at danielleºs. I attributed my foot problems to the souls coming off but i actually figued out that after i super glued the souls on and kept on walking around that i walk on the outside of my feet with the shoes on, especialy with my bag. So i threw them out at a train station because the pain was just so much i could barely walk. I still walk with a liimp right now and i keep thinking about the cane iºm going to have to buy and how cool itºs going to be. THis all happened then Milan i had to limp around for six hours looking for a bank. O i got money from an atm today it was exiting in ways i canºt even explain. Right so milan evil i wonºt go back unless i have slaves and a rickshaw and oodlous of money. We get to spain after a hurendous trip. Frace was stricking so it took us 2 and a half days when it should have taken us 9 hours. But we finally made it. We even celebrated with the sake we bought and iñ a rush we get off the train and it goes off suddenly shannon realises that she left her purse on the train. No big deal except her passport and trian pass were in it. We start rallying people who speak little english and together we locate the train and are off agian. We got the purse back intact nothing missing not even the money. I know what are the odds. Leaving barcelona was the problem. Have you heard of the basque, well now that they have been active for some time the way you get on a tain you scan your luggage in an xray machine but you donºt go through a metal detector. So of course me with my three knieves gets in trouble with the security i had to change trians and talk to the renfe people and have them walk me down through security and on to the train. I mean iºm a backpaker what kind of trouble am i going to cause. So thatºs all good and done until we realise that all train stations have these machines. So now everytime i get on a train i stuff the knife in the front of my pants and put on a baggy sweater. Itºs so fucked up. I could be packing nitro with a double fuse explosive rigged with a dead man switch over a trench coat and get through security but my bag getts scaned. So everytime i go through spain i have this horrible feeling they are going to look at me and say "we are searching people today everyone spread um" then iºll be thrown in jail. But entil then iºm going to keep up my villanous smuggling act. But iºm not sure they have anything like that in portugal, which is where i am. Lisbon to be exact. Iºm going to find a good pair of boots.

yeay we don't have to sleep in a train station tonight.

I hate Milan. Sure if i was rich and could walk into my five star hotel at the end of the day and wash my shoes i would not have hated it as much as i did. O and banks will not except a credit card unless you have an account with the bank. I was walking around fucking Milan for about 6 hours and i went into over 50 banks. I finally found one that would do a cash advance but it was aweful. So i hate everone who convinced me theives and phantom murderers were out to get me because i haven't been so much as looked at strangely in anyplace in eastern europe italy was just anoying people. I should have brought my debit card, or just cash anything would have been better than having a useless card in most cases where i usually end up without food for the night. Thank good i'm out of italy though. Did you know france is on strike, it makes getting to Spain really hard it took us about 2 and a half days. We slept in train stations on our way and met a giant group of people that had been trying to get to barcellona too. In the end it all worked out you know after two evil days of waiting then hearing trains were'n't going on those days to barcellona. God damn france and their fucking princapls.

Just Desert's

I mean the food not the vengeful karma. So everyday we have had gelato. Well not just everyday, i mean multiple times a day. Three at most. However this was not the first time we have gone crazy about sugar. pretty much all the time i have wanted sugar since we got here so i have had sugar in everything. I never used to eat alot of sugar so i figure i can go crazy now when it's worth it. I mean baclava in Greece. Sorry but i can't not have that every day. Which we also did. Especially in Patra at that incredible bar that had a bakery at one end that was Alice in Wonderland theme really fucking awesome baclava. O it was incredible; not only was it huge but goey in a good way, i mean it was dripping with whatever that stuff was i don't know but also they decorated the plate and it was literally huge we of course can only eat each one of it's many layers one at a time. Also the cake in the candy store around from our hostel in athens. O my god i was a carmal orgasm, and i use that very stringently because i love caramel and would only use it in the most of extreme of cases. Yea it was that good. It was frozen so it still was a little cold and just a little melty the cake was so good i would almost go back all that way back to athens back to the athens house hostel just to eat a whole fucking tray of this cake so i can stop thinking about it. Anyway back to the gelato, we have actually grown past the blue ice and have moved on to not more expensive but better. It's this candy shop that's right by the pantheon which i can find now with my eyes closed. My favorite combination was the black forest with real cherries the cream caramel that had a syrup almost to good to be real then passion fruit. You wouldn't think they would all go together but they did and they sort of rocked. Shannon's favorite was the coconut with real coconut parts this strange banana cream pie with a crust of pie you could taste even though it was covered in gelato and the cream caramel. So we love gelato and would gladely be fat and happy then thin in Italy.


P. S. MOM"s if we could give yo any one thing from all of our trip it would have to be an vaht of the Cream Caramel for Shanon's mom and the Passion Fruit you mine because you would probable just love.

Ruth

O Ruth what would we have done without you. So we found that we needed to go into the bank and explain that the atm wasn't working and blah blah blah they would give us cash yeay money. We found out that we could take a boat to Ancona Italy for only 7 e with our E rail pass while going to Crete would have been around 50 e there and back. Fuck that shit we are going to Italy. So of we went to Prata where we actually found a our hostel. I felt like i was dying from my incredible bad headache so we stopped at this shop and bought some ice cream and baclava (i don't know how to spell it obviously). So we are just in our hostel trying to get some rest and i see these bags on the bed across from us and it's just a bunch of garbage. I swear it looked like a homeless person. Then she comes in Shannon's asleep and we start talking and i go sit on the porch with her. She offers to cook us some food, that is me and my girlfriend. I wake shannon up and she plays along perfectly. So she's cooking on this little gas cooker on the ledge of our hostel room. She starts talking and she has aparently been biking for who knows how long all over the America and South America then she came to Europe. It seemes like she has been biking for around thirty years i swear. But the best part was what we talked about. Yes so apparently she met Tom Cruise in a bike shop in Topeka Kansas where him and his evil conspirators sent a tornado after her. Tom Cruise's brother said that a tornado would be the best way to cover up a rape/murder to her. She met Einstein when she was a little girl and she told him he was doing bad things. Anna Nicole's brother is affiliated with the same people as Tom Cruise and they killed Anna for some unknown reason. While she was in Peru she saw a giant caravan of dead tourists being towed away after their bus fell over. She also in Peru, saw a new particle born from the radiation and fecal matter around the area. Our personal favorite was when she gave Shannon some meat and shannon said "I love meat i could any type of meat" suddenly Ruth looks hurt and she tells us that they are starting to put human meat in New York and Los Angelous, o and these people also know the Tom Cruise evil conspiraters. She made really good food for us though so we just went along and ate pretty much all her food. It was hilarious. But she left early the next day and we got on our boat which i was sure was going to sink just like the titanic. We slept up on the deck inbetween the seats it was pretty wicked and not that cold. We left ancona the next day and came to Rome where we actually found Danielle's address and she was home. Yep we are in Rome staying with someone we know from back home it's a little weird but in a good way.

Randomization

lately i'll have this string of songs runing through my head in a loop whithout pause "i can feel it comming in the air tonight". . . "Burn baby burn disco inferno burn". . . "(that evil rhianna eminem song which is stalking us i can't remember the words but i can see the music video and it drives me crazy)". . . "I want you, i want you so bad" . . . "Time we now tis the season African". . . "Your love is my drug". . . "Fly me to the moon let me sail among the stars". . . "You and i will be young forever, you make me feel like just like a teagnage dream. . Don't ever look back don't ever look back. . No regrets. . We can dance until we die. . We'll be young forever. . Don't ever look back". . .

I blame all the pop music on america which also simultaniously makes me want to be katy perry's best friend. It also makes me glad that i'm doing exactly what i want to do, be here. I could be at home working towards becoming the first person to provide factual evidence of the existece of quarks and how they could be a potential use for gate travel seing as they are exotic paricles which could theoreticaly change the physics behind the black hole phenomenon. OR i could be in some underground goverment agency germinating a rare form of ebola specifially targeted to the genetic structure of a certian individual which i believe is also a key factor that could revolutionize how we percieve genetics and the growing threat of germ warfare. OR i could be siting in a dusty library analyzing the dusty fragments of tablets and parchments all in the hopes of recovering the lost dead sea scrolls or the library of Alexandria. OR i could be working my way into the BAU of the FBI working on cases involving the worst of the worst. OR i could do something that i for certian knew that i wanted to do. Which is this be here. I don't need to see every museum or go to every city. There is sight seeing and there is museum vacations. I'm somewhere in the middle. We are in Athens right now, Saw the Acropolis yesterday. We decided not to go to Crete though. It was around 50 e there and back. But we used our discount to go by boat to Itlay for 7 e. I know right it was really hard to figure out which one to do. We however are running out of money and can't figure out why the stupid atm's aren't working. We figure if we go into a bank they will help us out somehow. But if they can't we are seriously fucked. Like the hobo's we now dress like we might be on the streets begging for food. But the awesome coats and sweatshirts we bought us in Romania will keep us warm while we are on the street. Ah we'll probable work it out we just get a little parinoid. Gah BUT yeay ITaly we are going to be in Rome in a few days and we'll stay with danielle and figure shit out.

Dorothy Gale Was Here

Bucharest was not fun. We got of the trian and it was a long train ride (roughly 7 evil hours each time) and just thought i'm goin to get stabbed. I'm going to just die here someone is going to slip a knife in my side and i won't be able to see them coming because of this giant bag. As we are walking we discuss the many ways we could pivot in an attempt to ward of knife wielding crazy people out to get us. The hostel wasn't even tolerable and it was named the funky chicken and there were NOT FREE CIGARETTS advertisment wrong. I wish i stayed longer in the small towns of Romania. We went from Sibiu to Ramnicu Valcea were we stayed. Then we went to Curtea de Arges, that's right we are on our way to Poenari castle fuck Brasov and it's weird dracula museam that has nothing to do with Vlad or dracula or anything really beside the fact that someone bought it and made it into a museam for dracula. We planned on spending the night at the castle. Look it up it's not even really a castle it basicly crubling walls. But the steps, 1500 of them, with our bags, after we actually got to the top we were so tired we sort of layed down for the rest. This Polish couple came up who knows how much later and asked us "are you guys hitchhiking, because we could take you up north if you want we have the room". We were fully prepared to stay the night, we had our bags with our hobo coats and our ugly sweaters we bought in sibiu. What the hell so we lumbered down the mountain and got in the car. Now at this point i would like to address everone who is reading and tell you all that i have hitchhiked before and i will hitchike in the future get over it and i don't want one email saying how someone is worried about my safety because if you know me you know that i would know wheather or not to get into the car of a stranger. All right now that that's settled the couple, can't remember the names of them were so nice they gave us wine and chocalate they were really adventurous and decided to take the fun way around the lake. They had a really good jeep type car and the road was just full of bumps and crazy turns. All led up to this incredible mountian road up the mountian side we got out took pictures and went through the mountians. They were going north and said they would droop us of somewhere what do you know it's Sibiu once again. I love that place a discount ugly sweater store on every corner a Billa market on all three sides of the square and the Flying Time Hostel is pretty much taken a special place in my heart. Bulgaria is very clean and just nice. Not alot to see really but it's a good place to hang out walk around like in the square which is covered in yellow bricks i keep thinking "god i wish my mom were here she knows that weird skip thing that they do on the yellow brick road" in the wizard of oz, you know on the way to see the wizard. Everyone keeps looking at me funny, shannon notices it to we've decided it's either my lip piercing of my blue eyes but everywhere they just give me this odd stare. We like our hostel and they have a french toast breakfast for 11 E so we LOVE IT> Greece is in two days, it's warm there it's a good thing. . .

monster

What does it mean to be a monster. I finished reading mary shelly's frankenstein and it's interesting to think that people think so highly of the monster created by the good doctor yet they fail to see his flawing nature. He did something very few can even conceive of doing. As far as scientific breakthroughs go it's a sho in for a latent Nobel prize. But where does it end. Religion always has to snake it's way into pretty much everything but even the greatest of scientists know their are mysteries in the universe yet discovered, the human body for instance has a certain weight of proteins metals and various other elements, yet there is still a small percentage that seems so elude us. People argue that the monster was so tortured and forlorn in his existence that it wasn't really his fault that his creator is the blamed. But if you take a drug addict to rehab the fact remains that they could always relapse. Once a killer always a killer. Sure each person is different but the very essence of who and what a person remains. The monster questions his own existence in the story, like we all do. Each of us thinks similar thoughts have similar feelings and wonder if anybody else feels the same way. It's a whirlpool of negating energies which culminate in each of us feeling so desperately alone and different when we are all so fucking similar. "people are not snowflakes" Betty. However some people are different in the fact that they just are, plain and simple they just are. The monster was different. He hated that about himself, his hatred made him do terrible things. We can all relate in some small way because a little of the creature in all of us. But to admit that would be terrible right?

Jynx

Yea if you didn't know there was a toxic spill in south east Budapest. Basically down the river. I was thinking. Well heavy metals should get caught in the filtration system, is there a good filtration system in Hungary, what about the radioactive particles. FUCK it i need coffee. We had this whole plan about going through serbia then bulgaria but as we are on the train to Beograde we look at our E rail pass and we arn't valid to go through them with just the global pass. All the other ones are fine. So we jump of the train expecting the next one that came would go the same way we came. It didn't we ended up in the boondocks of Budapest where we were kicked off the train because the train guy didn't believe us that our pass was valid for the train. Here we are in the middle of nowhere thinking well at least we didn't get thrown off when it was moving. I had all these thoughts run through my head about how i should land on my back even though it would probable fuck up my spine it would be alot better than being smoshed by my bag. We have all these scraps of paper with where we want to go written down and somehow we make it back. It's not the train station we wanted to go to but we can walk to it. We go to the good train station get our night train all booked and make our way back to the hostel to just hang out. The hostel was very strange the guys who worked there would just leave for a couple of hours at a time come back clean hang out for a bit then leave again. We whenever he left we raided the food cabinet for the crappy cereal we eat at breakfast. It had free coffee though. Budapest was a good place to walk, it was a very long walk to. But we saw it in like a day in a half. Apparently it has a really good bar scene but we just weren't interested at that point. But Were told that that is where all the pretty people hang out. Just walking around the street it's like who said Budapest had the most beautiful girls and where were they compared to me. So we finally get our train which is to romania now which is good that we came early because it's freezing. We had to get off at this random train station at like 6 30 and wait until nine o'clock till the next train to Sibiu would come. Right so Bran castle in Brasov is not Vlad the impaler's castle. Poenari castle near curtea de argos is the real one; it's just really hard to get there because they close a bunch of roads around winter. We actually found a hostel that's pretty cool that adds up to be ten Euros a night which is like YEAY we are staying two nights so we can figure shit out tomorrow and trek it the day after that. We had to change plans with the people we were staying with in greece to. It's pretty cold though. I mean my teeth aren't chattering and i'm not lying on a bed professing my last words but enough that we went to a second hand store and bought kind of awesome horrible coats for about 15 lei. Tomorrow we plan to find a Harry type sweater and maybe tights. I plan to not be cold and die of course i'll wear tights or long johns if i need to. But we probable won't stay in Romania alot. It's an incredible culture though and we met this girl on the train and she was from here and she was talking about the gypsies and i just sort of thought wow i should have been born into the gypsy culture i would really get along there. We balance each other out though. My bad luck and Shanon's mixed with our random luck. Like getting lost on the trains all day in budapest waking up just as we get to our stop in romania. We also can always find our way we barely ever take a map with us. We don't really look for the historical sights but just walk around for hours finding them. I am good with directions because i can always just sort of know which direction we need to head in and then shannon will see something and we are back home agian. It's a good thing. Romania is our baby, we just know it's going to be so fucking hard to get around, no one speaks english, it's cold, hostel's are like maybe two if that a town. But we will survive, and be warm in greece. Hell fucking yea i'm in romania and i'm going to see the real Dracula castle .

Rainmakers

Well i had this one all written and done but computer errored while i was trying to publish it so i'm not going to write it again.

Conviction

We decided to stay a day longer in praha then planed because it was just so incredible. Plus the hostel was really cheap. It was sweet the reception would just leave at 9 oclock so it was like we were alone. I mean there were other people but most of them were sleeping out or in single rooms. So we would just raid the kitchen. We had oatmeal with tons of sugar like every night. Then we found the pasta. IT was so nice to actually eat. Czech is really cheap i mean our hostel was about ten E a night and we would just go to the local market and buy a huge loaf of bread and eat it really slowly. The fridge had jam and butter so we just sort of went crazy. Ever since we got here all we want is sugar. Like pastries and shit, we had these really gross chocolate cookies but they were so cheap and so much. "it may have been cheap but their was lots of it" and one doctor Solomon put it. The last day we met these young aussies from Adelaide and they were talking about all these horible hostel's we had stayed it. We just sort of laughed and said we had only been traveling for about a week. It's funny though so far it's been pretty normal and nice. Except in Frankfurt, this guy was staying in our room and we all ten of us agreed he was most likly homeless and he would come in and out and mutter some weird language to himself really loudly and breathe so loud. He was a freak every time he came back he would go right to bed wake up go to the bathroom muttering of course take his huge suitcase in the bathroom with him do something and leave. But that hostel was pretty weird anyway; it was in the red light district so right next to our hostel was World of Sex. I went out in the morning after eating breakfast one day for a cigarette and all these homeless people were about a foot from the door passing around this crack pipe smiling just chilling. Needless to say i went back inside and read my book. But that was two countries ago, We went right through Austria and apparently through Slovakia which was a serious bitch. Our Eu rail doesn't cover us in Slovakia so we almost go thrown of the train. Luckily the ticket guy let us off easy he just made us pay twenty E which was ten of the price. We're pretty sure we bribed him and he pocketed the money. YEay for not getting thrown off the train in the middle of evil Slovakia. The whole way through it just looked dark and rainy and gray and evil. Hungary is a lot more modern than i thought it would be. We are staying in the pest region of Budapest but tomorrow we are going out and about and exploring. We are supper stoked that we finally got some people to reply to us on couch surfing though in greece no less. We want to stay in greece a while to and we are expecting expensive. All we really care about is if they have a washing machine. We washed our cloths in the sink but it was cold in praha so they didn't really dry. So we went out for a walk and we were just walking and talking doing our thing and shannon asked me you know how do you feel when you're here that sort of thing. All i could really say was that i had to be here. I just know that i needed this. You know the tontology it is what it is because it is. It's funny i never really thing about it but i do have conviction's in some way and i just feel them out and go with it no matter the what Where as most people just think so much about why they are doing things and about themselves and their beliefs about things and whatever on and on until their head just explodes like something from Scanners. Me i just sort of do things and feel out my future somehow i just know, changes happen and i follow them or they don't and i don't try and force it. It's hard to really describe in a way that doesn't make you want to wiggle your mustache.

Inspiried by Disney. . .

Germany wow it's been a long time but i don't really remember it that well especially since i was a tiny kid when i was here last. Seeing the wall was incredible we walked the whole lengtht of it, it's really long and beautiful all the art is either really really cool or to off beat to really understand where they were coming from. Walking around Berlin was cool, emphasis on cool cold. But there was not frost on the cars. Yes i tell how cold it is by the frost because my homeostasis is not exactly normal so i look for outside sources when i can't tell. SO Berlin right time to find a club; we had to find one. IT was the mission we wanted to dance to crappy music until late in the night. We pregamed at the hostel (god help me that isn't my normal venacual but dear sister your words have sunk in and now i can't really think of a better and faster way of saying it) the hostel is basicaly like a socialist style prison. White walls white beeds weird pictures of unhappy children however the shower was so hot and pressure you forget how much you love to be at the end of a waterfall of searing water. Anyway we really had no idea where any of the clubs were but the bible said to go to certain ones. Our rommate decided he would come with us because we were cool. First club closed, a metal show just ended i know i would have loved it. Second club we find closed not even a sign outside. But on the way to the second club we heard the familiar sound of bass. So We follow and GOD FUCKING YES we find one and wouldn't you know it it's the matrix, a club which at the hostel they had cards to saying one free entry. HELL YEA!!!! we go in wrap our coats around us and dance. What's funny is people don't really dance as hard as we are used to. However we are more used to going to raves where everyone just dances crazy and with everyone, plus they are all really happy. So we are dancing and funny most every single song is american. I'm serious we as americans are so fucking entertaining we just spill over onto the rest of the world. We would have been destroyed out of pure spite if the rest of the world didn't find us so facinating. SO dancing is awesome for us, people their do the whole middle school dancing in groups things it's a little odd. I mean it's cool if that's your thing but come on dance have fun who cares. We get up on stage and everyone was apparently looking at us, shannon and i were oblivious because we were dancing so hard, But our swiss romey said it was weird. The club was tubular, but very drainging. i had my coat around my waste so every time i turned a little fast people thought i was trying to cop a feel. But i wasn't about to coat check my only coat. So we left after we were suficintly danced out. O i forgot we when we were fist walking around berlin we come upon this protest rally. Apparently they were for socialism, we think, but we also think that all the other people who wanted to say something decided they wanted to be their to. So as we are leaving we were taling about how many kids their were. I mean alot of kids, in the middle school almost high school ages. Like twenty kids and one adult, we saw maybe fifty groups like this. WEIRD. we figure it's a class wide trip, of many schools, of many many schools. On the the the leaving. we get on the train Amsterdam girls never emailed us back and sandra fell through so we left. WE are in Praha aka Prague the Czech Republic. I know i love it. We found a cheap hostel for ten E a night so we'll stay here to nights and book it to most likly Budapest. We are walking around shannon is telling me the story of every ann rice novel which is so very fitting as we walk by there huge gothic castles. I mean black towers black weather vanes black doors. It looks like the castle the my personaly favorite villain Malephosent lived in. Except no evil rose bushes. (yea roses are now evil and always will be). And as we are walking around we see an advertisment of snow white's queen selling lipstick. cool i know.

Jack and Jill

So we were really cold and really lost when we finally got of the plane and train and were walking around munich in the middle of the night in the rain when we met a girl that said we could stay on her floor. Nice right, almost we found the internet cafe somehow and made it to where we were supposed to meet her. . . She never showed. Probable stayed at a friends house thinking we were going to rob her blind. Luckily the resturaunt that we were siting outside of at about 12:00 at night told us to come inside because it was cold. He then convinced one of his friends to let us crash at her place for the night. I swear to god her house fell out the back of ikea. No joke there were sharp edges and white couches everwhere. She was really nice and even let us stay another night. Octoberfest is fucking awesome. We went on a brewerey tour and had lots of beer, then we went to another place and had more beer. Finally we end at octoberfest, which is more of a carnival with rollercoster rides and shit. There we had more beer, then more beer. Bachas was very pleased at our intake. we walked around for a while and there was this place selling sweets, my god i wanted to eat the fucknig building it looked better then the food. After a while of stumbling around we decide to go home. I found an umbrela, and we left. To go the the black forest where of course we went for a hike. at like 8 at night, yea sort of stayed their to long and fell down the mountain through this mass of viney rose thorns. EVILE JSIE ELK E. i mean we are okay but just a lot of scratches. Freyberb or something is where we stayed yea in the black forest hostel. We are to cool cats don't you know. Anywhay the owner of the resturaunt Roland gave us the number of a friend of his in Berlin; Sandra the berlesque dancer. She says come on by on wendnesday and she will put us up and take us to the best clubs in town because she obviously knows which ones are the best from experience.

Short stop

Nothing really happened the way it was supposed to <ö> yea our flight from chicago never happened, we missed the flight. so they rebooked us to madrid then to Zurich of course that did not include our bags which were on the chicago flight. to phili then zurich, along with my vegitarian meal. So as hysterical as that is it all seemed to work out. I was very surprised to find my bag intact withought anything stolen. O right then we decided to go right to munich, for octoberbest. that's another train ride on not really sleeping. So we walked around looking for this internet cafe and ran into this girl maria who said we could crash on her floor tonight. o i almost forgot we are in europe.