I am here, and this is now.
All other matters are open to debate.
...Actually, when you think about it, that's just stupid. But if you don't, it sounds cool and kinda meaningful in a Mayan Prophecy sort of way, so I'll just leave it at that.
This web-blog thing also wants me to post a self-portrait. I assume by that it means a good old fashioned photograph, because canvases make me look fat. Anyway, I'd love to oblige and be a lovable narcissist (after all, that's what mobile phone cameras are FOR), but I simply can't find a good picture. By which I mean one that has been appropriately photo-shopped to make me look like a six-foot-five muscle-bound Adonis and not, say, a five-foot something bespectacled monument to Indeterminate Ethnicity.
Tell you what, just imagine I look like Johnny Depp when he's playing someone vaguely healthy.
Or, if you prefer, Meryl Streep.
Oh, and just a heads-up to all you Conspiracy Nuts out there... I think the Number 4 is evil. No, really. Look it up.
Sorry, yes, I am still alive- just in an area where it´s reasonably difficult to access the internet on a regular basis- but I got Sophie´s (presume it was Soph, sounded like her) rather alarmed text the other day and realised that it´s actually been a while since I checked in and let you guys know that I´m safe, so I thought I would just, you know, do that. Um. I´m safe. There.
... read more I'm currently enjoying the beautiful idle of Chefchaouen and, as your keen senses have I am sure detected, not at home- I have at this stage just a little more money then I expected, so I thought I'd stick around for another week or so. Besides, this plaace has moutains, lots of mountains. I like mountains.
... read moreJust a quick note to say that I'm in Meknes, still hot and sticky but not at all bothered by it- much; will hopefully be driving out t see those old ro,an ruins tommorow. Perhaps I'll be lucky and get the same cliff-teetering cigarette smoking bus driver as mum. Of course by now, he'd be blind, senile and quite possibly dead as well which, by local standards, might actually improve his driving.
... read moreJust to let Dad know- and the rest of you, obviously- I'm safe and quite well, enjoying the city of Fes with its ancient archutecture, sprawling Medinas and ridiculour number of donkeys. Unfortunatly, my phone is entirely out of credit, so I can't reply the conventional way, but instead must post it here for all the world to see. Fortunatly, Google has the world busy with all manner of more interesting things. Anyway, hopefully someone in the family will read this before dad starts to think I'm dead and sends out a search party/rents my room to someone else. See ya'll soon enough, now.
... read moreTurns out Casablanca was pretty much a bore- not even Rick's could save it. Alas, it's now obvious to me that the REAL Casablanca was a set solely the property of Pinewood Studios tm. So, I've come up the coast to the cool and Cooler seaside town of Asilah. Soph, I think you'd like it here- there's art everywhere, paintings on the streetside walls and everything. For some reason Morroco does seem to hold the vestiges of a Hippy's paradise.
... read moreRick! Rick! "It doesn't matter what we want, it does't matter what we say... if you don't get on that plane, you're gonna regret it for the rest of your life... I figure the problems of two kids like us don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy, crazy world- somday you'll understand that. Maybe not today; maybe not tommorow, but someday." There is a Rick's; built in late 2004 so probably not authentic. No sign yet of Sam or That Song.
... read moreHave temporarily moved on to the little- read huge but only interesting in the ,middle- costal town of Ess... Essou... Essor... to A beatiful coastal town; very windy, here. Therefore I find myself stewing in a pleasant cold, which is a nice change from the last place. Still cannot work the keyboards here.
... read moreSo. Marrakech. It's hot and the keyboards are funny: That's about it; And, incidentally, said keyboard is the reason thqt the letter Q pops up from time to time when it shouldn't. As if Qweerty isn't complicated enough already; Anyway, there's obviously a lotmore to the city than thqt, and I'd tell you qbout it if the above paragraph hqdn't taken so frustratuignly long to write. Suffice to say that the crazy mqrketplqces never close, things qre ALWAYS busy and bustling, there are street urchins everywhere (but not the musical kind) qnd, oh yeah, did I mention that it's HOT. I mean, I've never fully appreciqted the meaning of the word before- it's like being in a volcano sized sauna. In fact, it feels so hot thqt I feel fully justified using the zord "sheesh" for
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