Pūndri I forgot this one: when I gave Troy the maple syrup, he said: “Sez hee-ir ‘Cape refrigerated.’ Gotta do that, huh?” “Only after you’ve opened it. It’s fine now. But if you open it, yes, put it in the fridge.” “Whaz that?” “You know, it’s sugar, so something will eat it… mould, bacteria, something.” “Thayre’s […]
Tag Archives: Lexington
More Disasters.
28-Apr-14São José I had prepared for this moment for days, by going to the ATM machine bit by bit: my account does not let me draw more than five hundred dollars out on any day, and I don’t have a credit card, so for large expenditures like this I have to pay cash and draw the account […]
When I had first pulled into the transmission place in Lexington, I will confess that I felt a thrill of Providential Comfort, the sense we have from time to time that our decisions are being guided by a benevolent Power, and may be settled into with confidence. Whether this is truly an inkling of divine […]
Lexington, Kentucky.
21-Apr-14I had been to Lexington once before, when in high school. The university is home to something called the “Tournament of Champions,” which is something like the World Series of Poker for high school debate geeks. Nevertheless I really did not know what to expect from Lexington. I remember liking a song in high school […]
From Winter Into Spring.
21-Apr-14Lexington, Kentucky.
I pulled into the transmission place. A young man with gentle eyes and a baseball cap covering a curly mullet was behind the counter: I liked him immediately. I told him the honest story: I was coming down from the Catskills in New York; had lost the clutch on the truck; it had 265,000 miles […]
The Beginning of the Disasters.
20-Apr-14Lexington, Kentucky gaped out its windows on the 15th of April at the half-inch of snow which had fallen in the night. The crab-apple blossoms and cars had lost their colors in the white and gray. I sighed. I had brought the winter down with me. Yesterday the girls were all walking around in short […]
After a few days not spinning my wheels in New York City – I was making attempts at buying gear for the trip, and failing as I typically do in anything related to shopping – I finally left New York around noon on Monday the 14th of April. I came to the conclusion that if […]
In the Footsteps of Clay.
28-Apr-14The next dawn came and I was still stuck in Lexington. I had arrived on Monday, and now it was Thursday. I asked if there was a problem. “Salways trouble with these Foward Rangers. It takes forayver to blade ‘em out. Say, whayn you chenge a clutch you gotta blade ‘em, to get the bubbles […]