February 2008

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• 2008 Outer Hebrides

  Waterproof Urkel

  02.29.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Although some of the stone-circle sites in Lewis will be just off the main roads, I’m more interested in remote locations, and that involves traipsing through bogs and probable muddy situations. So I ordered a pair of waterproof, fleecy-lined trousers off eBay, which arrived today. Great quality for £6, but oops, they’re size [...]

• On The Road

  Geriatric ass tricks

  02.26.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  I was on a flight recently, and aside from having to arrive at the airport 3 hours before, divvy up all our liquids into 100mL portions, and partially disrobe in front of a strangely unappreciative metal-detector queue (everyone’s a critic), the flight was fine. The atmosphere wasn’t as close and cattle-car in character as [...]

• 2008 Outer Hebrides

  Easy on the Hs, please

  02.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Spent most of today wading through the Byzantine schedules for the Western Isles buses, trying to piece together a workable route northward. It’s a tricky business because many services run only 3 or 4 times a day, if at all (Sunday, being a day of rest for everyone else, actually means I’ll be walking [...]

• 2008 Outer Hebrides

  Sailing off the edge

  02.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  The thing about cities, and especially London, is just the crush of people. This is great for urbanites like us. We feel comfortable in crowds: it in some ways validates our decision to be wherever we are; it suffuses our purpose with some feeling of shared intent and destiny. We like that [...]

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Junkies for that feeling you get just before you board a plane, train, or automobile for somewhere other than here, we're seeing as much of the world as we can, staying one step ahead of the trifecta spectre (trispectre?) of security, progeny and mortgages.

We also love a good meal.

Project: Eggplant will track as much of that as we feel like putting fingers to keyboards. At times we'll get lazy and just take some purdy pictures. And sometimes it may sound like we're just moaning. In the end, if we don't write it with a smile on our faces, it doesn't get posted.

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