Despite the eccentric title this is really just a trial journal. I want to see how this site works. I like it a lot. Looking at accounts of recent travel through Afghanistan and Syria, among other places, is addictive. I'm still at home. I leave for London tomorrow. Things are busy. I'm excited. I'm less worried about big things (illness, war, poultry) than about details (will I make my train connection in the U.K.? if a butcher is 5'10'', what does he weigh? (meat)). On the road, I will either write a lot in this space or I won't. But either way, with any luck there will be lots of pretty pictures.
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