My Hovercraft is Full of Eels

Marmite is the ultimate test of British-ness. It’s a foul substance that people like smear on things like toast. Personally, I think it smell’s like a bear’s rear end (this is conjecture, as I have never smelled a bear’s rear end). Luckily, my hatred of Marmite is shared by about half the british population. So [...]

It sounds like a Hardy-Boys Story. Here it is:

So I’m staying at my friend Alena’s, who is tomorrow leaving for a vacation with her Step-Mother, Barbara (they are good friends with each other, despite the age difference). Barbara is spending the night, and I headed out with friends to give them time together. They apparently [...]

Update: If you click on a photo, it links to a much larger image. Chances are your browser will shrink it to fit your screen. If you want to see it full res, click again (your mouse might look like a magnifying glass) to see it full size, probably so big it doesn’t [...]

My hike was wonderful, but I cut it short. My knees were still aching from the descent of the Brevent, to the point I had to walk backwards down the hill yesterday to get to the center of Chamonix! I’m not worried, as they are already feeling better after 3 days off, but I just [...]

It’s been a busy few days, but I made it to Chamonix yesterday.

Not without my share of comical events. I was woken at 5 AM one morning (I was sleeping under the stars, no tent) by a flock of goats trying to see if my sleeping bag was edible. Waving the first thing that came [...]

Haven’t updated my blog in a few days. I’ve started hiking the GR5. I landed in Geneva the night of the 14th, spent a semi-sleepness night in a youth hostel, took a bus and part hitched to St. Gingolf on the French/Swiss border around noon of the 15th, and started hikin to Novel, a small [...]

I made it to London. The flight went well, and even boarding was smooth, as I got to skip the long line of jostling Indians by exposing my fearsome looking leg brace, and got on the plane first with children and elderly.

Dreading jetlag, I took Benadryl, Tylenol, and alcohol together (the drugs specifically warned against [...]

August 11th, 7:30 PM, I fly from JFK to London, Heathrow. I’m only in England for a few days to establish legal residency (bank, insurance, health care, all that jazz), before I fly to Geneva, Switzerland. I buy a couple topographical maps and get a bus/ferry to St. Gingolph, a fairly unassuming lake-side town on [...]