graffiti

Yes, I encourage children to help me take pictures of weird things,, and while we were in Europe I took quite a few pictures of the graffiti which was pretty much everywhere in the old east. "Kill Maim Burn" is at a monument where we would do some urban rock climbing. It was on the hilltop in the neighborhood park right across the street, and what is written in the stone translates roughly to "the war dead implore peace"; so it has a different tone than, "kill maim burn". There were also some pretty talented stencil artists around town.



This was one of Kristi's favorites in Jena. better run nazi scum. It took me a while to see the anime eyes



No, Ben did not carve his name in a spanish cactus, but he did get a charge out of seeing his name. I think this counts as graffiti.

Czech for "We passed in a dream"

I still haven't done the research on this place, but there are a couple recent times in east German history when Ha Ha game over is appropriate and unser freude eure toter means:

Our joy your dead

Loved these guys

These two go good together

This was real vandalism, broken glass and all, that showed up one day on our bank.

Things I've lost at home

Remember that 19 hour 100Km German walk I took a while back? Truth be told I spent most of the following week in bed, it took three weeks for the painful inflammation on the backside of my patellas to wane, and I'm still having some fallout from that long hike, or better said,, fall-off. On the bright side I still have 4 toe nails, which is close to a half-full set, but I'm not 100% sure I get to keep the one on that left pinky toe. 3/10 isn't at all close to half-full, and is instead a lot closer to just weird looking feet.

Things I've found at home

Like the old world, the new world has it's own charm.
Europe didn't have any equivalents of these for me:

My own private Snake River (where you can catch more bass than you can count)


The Oregon coast (where you can drive on the beach for miles with truckloads of cousins)


Humming birds (and I should add a recent super close encounter with a Peregrine Falcon)



A garden full of grasshoppers (Also known as targets. I need to go buy a few thousand more BBs and continue to do my part to protect the local new world plant life!)