2001-06-20 - 7:45 p.m.
Howdy from Utrecht, Holland. We just finished a ridiculously long journey, three hours from Austin to Houston, two hours waiting at Houston Intercontinental Airport, an eight hour flight to London, a five hour layover in the London Airport, an hour flight to Amsterdam, a two hour wait to pick up the rental van, an hour drive to Utrecht. Whew, now I have a beer and I'm about to smoke some hash. Things are looking up. Things I learned about England without leaving the Airport: A lot of pasty English locals look just like pasty locals from Alabama, breakfast comes with beans (see the shit flinging scene from Trainspotting), if you wear a cowboy hat and a Hawaiian shirt - you are from Mars. It's time for hash, food and a big fat nap.
Wait, now I'm high, so I can tell you about the johns in Holland. In the Airport, all of the urinals in the men's room had little flies painted in the bowl, so when you take a piss, it looks like the fly is gonna take off when your stream hits the bowl. I don't mean some graffiti artist painted little flies in the johns, these came like that from the factory. Also the toilets have this plateau above the resevoir for you to shit on so that you can thouroughly check out your poop before you flush it away. Crazy, eh?
