Home Stretch

It's about a week before I head home! The first thing I want is damn Frosty and some Philly Pretzels. I'm pretty home sick and tired of needing money over here. I Love the fact i don't need shit in America. It's fucking Cold here and i'm missing the warm sunshine of Florida. I just watch the movie Control. It was a pretty saw movie in the end. Suicide is a pretty profound way to go. The actor who played Ian in the movie looked just like my brother.
See you soon.

Tough Ghost
Firearms are the most commonly used method of suicide among males.

Been a minute since i had them internets

Well, after Munich i traveled to Berlin and stayed with a friend i met in Philadelphia at the bik epolo worlds. Mark was an amazing host and we had a great time playing bike polo with the berlin crews. We taught the berlin team a thing or two about trying to play agressive. It ain't gunna work! We saw the Berlin wall, it was alright, haha. From Berlin, we went to Amsterdam for 36 hours of HELL. Fuck amsterdam twice. I slept in a park near another bum and got the first train i could out. I got to Paris and got some free internets at the local mcDonalds and took a nap in front of the eiffle tower. I got a hold of Stephane through Skype and we met up and played bike polo in the rain underneith the metro train stration. It was amazing and i had a fuck load of fun. I'm reallly really loking forward to the Paris BFF bike polo tournement. It is going to be Amazing!!
In the next week i am seeing the mountain goats, the thermals, and playing a shit load of bike polo.

Tough Ghost
The Bible, the world’s best-selling book, is also the world’s most shoplifted book.

Items on an agenda that has no purpose

I think it is time I rewind and have a look into my past. I am also beginning to write a short book. The title will be later divulged as my first choice is already a New York Times best seller. It will be a sort of diary of stories in my life that follow a re-occuring theme that I have always dealt with. It will also act as a sort of guide to one who approaches the same situations I was dealt. I really don't know how good it will be or if it will even be literary correct. I honestly don't really care. I'll print a few and give them to my friends and that will probably be it.. But it's something to take up a little time. Research will require a little digging, maybe to more unpleasant memories, and hopefully to days where I wore a smile permanently.
Everything has been done
There is nothing new
No one is original
Your definately not the first
Only someone in a long line of poeple repeating history
Like a record skipping
Repeating a song you wrote
Only the band is 50 years older than you
And on a best hits LP
Give up. GIVE UP. give up.
it's pointless and redundant.
you'll never succeed
Once again, you are definately NOT original.

96% of people put the peanut butter on first when making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Tough Ghost

OKTOBERFEST!!!!!!!

We made it to MUNICH! I miss karlsruhe already but it's great to be in a new city again with endless new possibilities. I landed at central station where i was bombarded by leiderhosen clad bovarians and rickshaws. Poeple stumbling everywhere drunk as fuck at 3 PM. Two lone straight edge kids in a strange drunk town. I did by chance see a guy walk by wearing a youth of today shirt which made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. I kept that with me of course. I managed to spend about 5 fucking Euros on a fucking phone call to meet up with a friend of a friend in karlsruhe. Money weel spent because Angeliki showed us hte town by bike and took us to a amazing vegan restaurant to eat. Munich is actually pretty impressive once you get away from the octoberfest part. I got to see the Munich river wave and watch surfers shred it at night with lights on it. I was so syked. I really would like to try surfing it but i hear the locals are quite terratorial. It is also getting pretty cold out hear. The leaves they are a changin'. Our news friends showed us a great DIY tour and Angeliki gave us a place to stay at her flat. So, polo tommorow!

Jim Henson developed an allergy to fleece.
Tough ghost

Switzerland to Germany

The train ride was alot easier using our new sheet technique. We arrived in the town of Karlsruhe, Germany. This place is amazing and i highly recomment visiting. it is very nice and small with alot of nature surrounding it. The prices for food were fair and the poeple very nice. Many poeple spoke english and we met up with my friend hannes from the candy colored clowns bike polo team. He gave us a palce to stay and showed us around. We ate lot's of good vegetrian food at a place called VIVA. We also visited a rad BMX museum. I spent alot of my time riding my bike and playing bike polo with the candy colored clowns and the rest of hte karlsruhe bike polo crew. Hannes was so kind to give us a place on his couch to stay and show us around. It's been great here but tommorow we head on with the trip to Munich. right in time for OCTOBER FEST! fuck me. On a better note, Fixie Inc gave us new mallets from their prototype stock. I'm excited to test out the new mallet ont he rest of europe.

The loser of a traditional medieval jousting match was expected to offer sexual favors to the winner.
Tough Ghost

Commuter trains take forever

We left Barcelona with many thanks to Camilo and pointed our fingers towrad switzerland. After boarding many different trains for a few hours at a time, we arrived in geneva switzerland. we immediately got on the internet and found where they were playing polo and headed out tot he courts. we were welcomed with open arms by the crew and we had some awesome games. Geneva def has their game on lock. Manuel offered his flat to us for the weekend so we headed to his flat to cok some dinner. He prepared us a swiss dinner and we hit the hay.

They following day we rode around the city and found a "baby beach" where there was a jungle jim through out the trees made from used bike tires. It was a site to see, and being a cyclist i appreciated it much more than the average person. Heading over to the gold sprints in a underground art community, we found only a few trick riders hanging out. The gold sprints never happened but we did get to meet some new poeple and hang out at a fresh bmx skatepark.

Yesterday, we hopped on the bandwagon with a protest riding a free train to Bern. It was socialists fighting for whatever, we got a bunch of free food on the train and then headed to the polo courts.. While fixing my tire, one of hte polo players ran into us and we headed to the courts only to fight FOOT HOCKEY being played. So we made some makeshift courts and payed outside the court. Gabor also showed us his bike workshop in a crazy old barn next to a train yard. He has some sweet as vintage bikes. We took the train home and walked a festival in the streets. Some good sleep is what we needed. Bike polo tommorow!

The game of checkers is banned in North Korea.
Tough Ghost

Fuck

Secret shoppers.