Posts Tagged ‘transportation’
Advice for Life I
For those of you who haven’t yet had the occasion to squish tightly into a small little mini-bus, known in most of East Africa as a matatu, and share sweat with strangers, there’s one thing you need to know, other than the sweat: they often have words on teh back–sometimes little sayings on the back, [...]
Things you don’t want to overhear
I am too infrequently nursing a little burn I got hopping off a moto last week–it was my own fault, lacking as I do both balance and grace and forgetting momentarily to compensate with attention and will power. I’ve been careful since then, but lately I find myself taking up drivers not nearly so [...]
Renegade recycling
Man, do I wish this story had been mine: Delaware recycles subway cars by dropping them in the ocean and letting fish take them over. And it works…whatever it is exactly that it’s supposed to do for the fish.
“Sixteen nautical miles from the Indian River Inlet and about 80 feet underwater, a building boom [...]
Road rage, or, why not to live with a doctor
Two days ago, I wrote a post like this, but it was all wild and triumphant. It was a love note to motos, and a farewell to my old, cautious self who had refused to get on the back of them.
The computer died, though, and I lost the post. Since then, I have [...]
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