"There are no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign." - Robert Louis Stevenson
I've been listening to a lot of music down here. I usually listen to music a lot, but I often find myself walking alone to get places, and it's kind of a nice time to just put in headphones and be oblivious. That being said, everyone who reads this needs to listen to the new Avett Brothers album, Live, Volume 3. Here's a free stream. I'm going to be an obscure music snob here and call it my generation's Waiting for Columbus. At the very least, go to iTunes and buy "Head Full of Doubt/Heart Full of Promise" right now. It's weird how little things like music and food can connect people from different cultures or remind you of your own--one of the more surreal moments I've had down here involved me and an American friend of mine singing Warren Zevon's "Lawyers, Guns, and Money" with three thirty year old Spanish bankers in a bus in the Atacama desert. It's weird how things happen sometimes.
Hey Stephen, I actually listened to the songs on Avett Brothers, and liked some, cool on some, and didn't understand others. Not for my 13 mile IPod inspiration, but good listening. In your research on Chilean wine, you may need my bio,since i may be the reason for the export surge. Your blogs are great, just comparing them to my days at 21 sitting in a horse barracks in Metz France. Same three stage acclimation, but all three were bad. We returned from a great four days in Texas, and then Grandma left the next day for 5 days at Orange Beach with girls only. She enjoyed it greatly doing I'm sure, not what guys would do.
ReplyDeleteYou are doing what every young man should do at this stage in life, so keep it up. Maybe this will be the first book you will author, as I'm sure you will write many in your lifetime. Something along the line of Bill Bryson's books.
Keep the blogs coming. Grandpa