http://partialmemory.com Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:54:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well folks, I am moving to Oregon. I'm going to be building bicycles for Bike Friday in Eugene, Oregon. After spending my entire life in the Bay Area it is slightly daunting to be moving to a town where I don't know a single person. Since getting back from my trip ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=252 So I am working on the successor to my PocketMail device. I am one of the few people who really loved that device. I've used it on a couple of trips and found it a great way to write and update my blog on the road. You can read more ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=140 Well I am back. I have actually been back for over a week now but have been somewhat surreptitious in announcing my presence. Just took a look at the blog and realized how long it has been since an update. Once I made the decision to leave Colombia, I pretty much ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=99 Good Days. They sure have been. I arrived in Cali, Colombia three weeks ago. One of my major goals of the trip was to dance salsa in Cali, the world capital of salsa. I figured that if I arrived on Monday and started lessons immediately, I could be ready to hit ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=98 I've decided that bike problems are good luck. I seem to meet the coolest people when resolving bike issues. I had pretty much decided to head for the coast and pound pavement to Ecuador. I need to meet my mom there on the 2nd and can't be late. As ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=97 Please excuse me if I wax poetic. I have just had an absolutely transcendental meal. If you ever go to Cusco, you absolutely must go to a restaurant called Tabasco and try the Rocota Relleno. It may have had something to do with reading the Bhagavad Gita as an appetizer, or perhaps the ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=96 Hello from Coroico, Bolivia Coroico sits at the end of the "Road of Death", a dirt road that wists and turns through mountains northeast of La Paz. To be honest I was a little disappointed in the road. It was on my short list of things to see in South ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=95 I love the word entonces. It has so much meaning and is used in so many ways. The simplest translation would be "therefore" or "so" as in "The road is closed, entonces..., we must turn around." It seems to have more meaning than just "therefore", however. Something along the ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=94 Lately I have been feeling like I was born to speak Spanish yet ended up in the wrong country and thus speaking the wrong language. Somehow my heart feels bigger in Spanish. Luckily I only have to learn a new language to fix the accident of my birth, unlike someone born the wrong ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=92 I am sitting in the central plaza of Antofagasta de La Sierra eating crackers and a tin of something called "Jamon del Diablo" or "Ham of the Devil" in english. It is actually quite good but I had to get over the fact that it looks and smells like Whisker's ... http://partialmemory.com/?p=91