Saturday walk to Puergg
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Month: January 2006
I Spy with My Little Eye
This morning I went to get my eyeballs checked. My medical coverage in the US is less than ideal; it doesn’t cover specs and choppers. There’s not much wrong with my eyes or my teeth and the exams are fairly standardized, so I do that stuff here in the snowglobe. It saves me a packet. …
Ciaspolada 2006
We’re just back from La Ciaspolada, the snowshoe races in Fondo, Italy. This is the second year we’ve gone for Snowshoe Magazine. We had a really nice time hanging out with the coach of the US Snowshoe Racing team, the runners, and their families. Nice folks, they made us feel included in spite of our …
Innsbruck Birthday
Here’s the thing about Innsbruck. If you’re just passing through, you’re going to have to choose: the mountains or the city. The city is full of diversions — museums, shopping, historical buildings and monuments. The mountains, well, we don’t know. We chose the city, you see, in spite of the fact that Ski School Innsbruck …
Aigen Ukulele Players Association
Never in a million years would I have thought I’d find someone in Austria, not to mention in our town, to play the uke with. Silly me. Believe it or not, we may turn up a third player before we get together again. SUPA, we’ll rumble ya in a round of Muss I Denn and …
2005 in Review
January: We take a bath under a crescent moon and then go for coffee. February: England is exactly as you imagine it to be. A green and pleasant land, indeed. March: The culinary adventure known as the Jackson Street Crawl begins. April: Matzoh isn’t so bad. Really. May: Work could be going better. I’m just …