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How silly is it to feel pressure in producing an appropriate first post to a blog noone is even reading yet? I only have an hour before my battery dies so I'm just going to dive in; perfectionism would probably mean death to regular updates anyway.

It's a little mysterious to me why I feel the desire to blog again after a couple of predictably miserable attempts in the past. Random reasons could be :
the pleasure of creative writing attention whoring self improvement networking developing geek skills ME ME ME therapy finding an excuse to spend even more time in front of my computer screen keeping friends aware of my projects and whereabouts using technology to fight memory loss - who the fuck knows



Tentative April plans :


5-10 : Berlin (HH to Prague on the 10th)

Railing the EPT. Seeing old friends.

11-14 : Prague (plane to BCN on the 14th)

Partying with the couchsurfing crowd I met in december.

15-22 : Barcelona at the No Worries Villa.

If I have the energy, I'll try out all their activites, the healthy ones (hiking, swimming) the cultural ones (walking tours), the holiday ones (beaches), the degenerate ones (bar crawls), the adrenalin-packed ones (karting, paintball). I'm going to injure myself one way or another, but I'll have a smile on my face the whole way.

23-26 : Hitchhiking back to Paris

Hopefully seeing a bit of family on the way, if they remember me.

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Pain awaits tomorrow as I plan to hitchhike from Strasbourg, France to Berlin, Germany. Last HH trip included a night in a gas station for a 20km/h average speed (14 miles/h?). Stras-Berlin is just under 800km (550 miles, I hope my imaginary non-metric system users appreciate this). I'm counting on the nice weather and fast German highways to get me sucking on a beer in a funky bar by 6 pm.