Rocky Mountain High, Eh?

After what seemed like an eternity of driving, we’re up in the Rockies. We arrived in Jasper last night to yet another thundershower, but the weather is much better today and we had our first real day of adventuring. Man, is Canada big. Yesterday, when we got to Valemount, I was working through a “big, …


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Snow Envy

I’ve posted a few new pictures from our recent adventures in the snow here.

Austria, land of snow and cake

The weather has been pretty incredible lately. We still have a ton of snow on the ground and it’s a crime to squander the midday sunshine indoors. When the cloud cover burns off, around noon, we head off to play outdoors for a few hours. The days are getting a little longer, but there’s a …


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Schneebericht

You’ve been wondering, I know, if we have any snow left. I think this picture, taken today on the road to the Spechtensee, should answer that question.

Juice

Every two weeks or so a farmer drives up in his truck. He rings the doorbell and shouts in the entry of the house: Apples! Pears! Dried fruit! Pumpkinseed oil! I stick my head out and tell him I’ll be right out to get some juice. It’s one euro for a liter of organic apple …


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From the Archives: The difference between travel and transit

I missed my flight to Graz. See, the train from Milton Keynes to Euston got slowed down and arrived 20 minutes late. I needed that 20 minutes because it turns out that at RyanAir, where they take all the very worst things about air travel and sell it to you for super cheap, all while …


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