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hmmm

I visited here. My pilgrimage was to the home of Pirandello, but it was closed…in a spectacular moment of silliness, I hitched a ride on the back of moped, thankully my random guide was surprisingly nice, and fetched fresh almonds and carob from the trees among the temples. also a prickly pear, we crouched behind a wall and sliced up bits with my knife…. i can’t believe i went to the valley of the temples for dinner… it may be a little better organized than it was, typical sicilian casualness, stumbled around among the ruins picking up and feeling chunks of stone.

lemurs.

It’s great, Gaudi’s building bulge out and melt from a row of town houses…sagrada familia gorgeous…

and of course, the bells bells bells… its a medieval town after all…

Full of the Cava love, it’s great drinking a “champagne” type wine like it is water

Kinda odd, seeing its geographical position, yes? Curious to find out why. Are there American troops in Turkmenistan? Did the the regime cooperate? 5th largest natural gas reserves, presence is only a matter of time (if its not happened already) what is up, I wonder?

From Wikipedia
“Niyazov [President for Life] renamed the week days after members of his family and wrote the new turkmen national anthem-oath himself, including phrases that say people who defamate the motherland or the Turkmenbashi [leader] should lose their arms.”

and going further and further afield. the Pend Oreille (pronounced “Ponderay”) is a river in the far north-eastern corner of the state, near the Idaho and Canada borders – it flows northward into Canada and arcs round to join the mighty Columbia River, and, I hear, is breathtakingly beautiful and very very deep. Its the Metalines I have my heart set on, I have no idea why.