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.