July 2009 ~ Around The World In 80 Cruise Ships

Friday, July 31, 2009

Living Strong In Estonia

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Living Strong In Estonia,
Nordic Biker

What am I on? I'm on my bike.

Toilets-I don't know squat!

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What am I on? My bike...

As frequent flyers, we should all get bonus miles for being subjected to Airline toilet stalls. They are, after all, boot camp for what any globtrotter is yet toencounter--everything from Lao holes in the ground to Belgian Bidets . Here in Estonia, the Winner of Bariatric Excellence in an adapted Swedish WC's (Water Closet) motif, goes to a cafe near the old medieval port town of Tallinn It's as if your third eye and your turd eye are one, and you start to believe their own BS:You can sh*t where you eat!

And Finally Potatos Not Prozac: A"sugar addicts" total recovery program.

White Nights On The Baltic Sea

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Here Comes The Sun. Celebrating The Russian Summer Solstice a bit late

In Soviet Russia, Car Drives You!

Proletarians and Pedestrians

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Beerfest

As a crackdown by the Kremlin to deter Foreign Tourists(Snake Oil Barons) from abusing alcohol, vendors have raised their prices. Russia is no China, but in California, you can always find a party. In Russia, The Party can always find you.

Jay Walking

In Russia is freedom of speech. In America is also freedom after speech...

Banksters

Whatever happened to the cold-war promise where "Every Soviet family will have its own airplane". Russian banks have gone the way of the dodo

Losing My Religion in Saint Petersburg

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Many Are Cold, Few Are Frozen

Christmas in July---

Global Warming, the 'new religion of First World urban elites' is easier to change than our diet.

Homage to:

Margaret Mead once said, “It is easier to change a man's religion than to change his diet"

Geologist Ian Plimer, the unremitting critic of "anthropogenic global warming" who put the con back in confidence perpetuated by environmentalists.

Go Away Picasso, I'm learning how to Paint

Das Boot Directors Cut

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Das Boot Directors Cut, or The Hunt For Red October-Make the call.

From Russia With Love

"You have such nice things in the U.S.—like warning shots!"

Red October, Christmas In July-Cold Hermitage Musuem

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Red October, Christmas In July-Cold Hermitage Musuem,
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

Ah Mother Russia--7 months of depression and 5 months of disappointment

Achtung Baby! Helsinki, City by the sea

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Helsinki From The Air,

On the flight from Munich, via Lufthansa: Beer drinking meat eating lumberjacks, the non swimmers, were on the left side of the plane.
What ever happened to QWERTY?

Wow this keyboard is off the chain. All these Umluats and schwas ÖÄÅ¤ ^`´¨ Can't seem find the '@' sign or backwards slashes ' /// 'very easily (Human Factors).

Escaping to prison.

My Boloney has a hundred names

The 170 year old jail at Katajanokka is now a Best Western Premiere...so much for Rock Star Wrecking Hotel Room stuff.

The U E.D. The University of Uncle Ed Food Science division gives a thumbs up to the inventive way they use boloney and sausage in breakfast. I had a near death experience, in a Meet Your Meat sort of way.

The dark brown rye oatmeal with farm fresh butter brought me to my senses. The pickled herring was a reminder that I was no longer in Munich.

Twitter Feed: No naked sauna ppl, but I ate my breakfast http://yfrog.us/715w0z

In one yEAR and out the other...7/15/08 vs 7/15/09

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07-15-08_

From The World Poker Tour, to The World (NOT Poker) Tour

FIRST (June-July)Athens, Greece, Naples, Italy, Messina Sicily, Istanbul, Turkey,Mykonos, Greece, Santorini Greece, Rhodes, Greece, Ephesus, Turkey, Rome, Italy,

NOW (August)Helsinki Finland, St. Petersburg Russia , Tallinn Estonia, Stockholm Sweden , Lubeck (Travemunde) Copenhagen Denmark, Berlin,Germany...

NEXT (August)Oslo Norway, Edinburgh & Scrabster & Oban Scotland, Dublin & Waterford Ireland, Dartmouth U.K., Amsterdam Holland, Kiel Canal Germany...

THEN (September)Barcelona, Spain St. Tropez, France, Monte Carlo Monaco,Florence / Pisa Taormina Sicily, Valletta Malta,Tunis,Mahon Menorca Spain, Palma De Mallorca...

THEN (September)Alexandria, Egypt, Ashdod & Haifa Israel, Limassol Cyprus, Antalya Turkey, Rhodes & Chios & Mykonos,Taormina Sicily, Sorrento,Italy...

Daylight Again

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Oia Ole!,
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

I Must Have Done Something Right

"Think about how many times
I have fallen
Spirits are using me
larger voices callin'." Southern Cross

Sage On The Stage

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Sage On The Stage,
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

Heros for Zeros, Jocks for Rocks. College credit for being a tourist.
Experience is life's report card-Should I go back and try to graduate- Look
at this photograph-Nickleback

Ephesus, Bibliomaniac Lets It Be

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Ephesus, Bibliomaniac Let It Be,
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

Apostle Ed:Faith. He's full of it. What happened in the Vegas of biblical propprtions stayed...Saint John, Paul, WWJD's Mom Mary. I got the call from John Lennon

The Geekfather In The Old Country, Sicily

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The Geekfather In The Old Country,

"Leave The Gun. Take the cannolis"

I'm replaying memorable quotes from The Godfather.
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer...
Don't ask me about my business, Kay...
,,,Only don't tell me you're innocent. Because it insults my intelligence and makes me very angry...
it was Barzini all along

Let The Orinoco Flow

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Let The Orinoco Flow,

"Turn it up...Adieu, ooh." Enya

Dom(e)ination

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Domeination,

You love this town
Even if that doesn't ring true
You've been all over
And it's been all over you

It's A Beautiful Day

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It's A Beautiful Day,

Sky falls, you feel like
It's a beautiful day
Don't let it get away

Don_Quix_ote in Santorini

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Don_Quix_ote in Santorini,

I dont need no Beast of Burden
I need no fussing
I need no nursing
It's On: Like Donkey Kong

Fountain Of You(th)

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Fountain Of You(th),
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

Napoli July V MMIX

White Castle

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White Castle,
originally uploaded by Ed Reif.

Hamburger Helper

Son Of A Beach

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Life Is Beautiful,

Rome.
July 5, MMIX I call this "Look I'm wearing glasses" look.

BMW-Bald Man Working

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BMW,

Seafood Diet. I see food and I eat it. Plius 3lbs of solid muscle . July 4, MMIX

BMW Money is life's Report Card

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BMW, Bald Man Working

Some are born GR8, some achieve GR8ness, some are given GR8ness as a graduation gift.

No Pomp. Just Circumstances.

Rhodes Scholar

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Rhodes Scholar,

Failed the tests.Passed the classes: Heros for Zeros---Mythology 101 and Rocks For Jocks---Geography. All I know is that Gods Behave badly and all this blue stuff is the Medeterranian.