Back in the U.S. 19 Jul, 2007
I’m now back in the U.S. and after a short detour once again on central time. I will not voluntarily arrive internationally to O’Hare again. That was the single worst airport experience I’ve had so far. I saw a neat feature of Chicago that I haven’t been able to locate on Google Maps – apparently there’s a quarry or something that ended up being surrounded by town so they just fenced off what is about a 20-story sheer cliff. It’s within five miles or so of O’Hare and looks like it holds water.
Lessons learned in Germany:
- Do not assume that eggs will be hard-boiled. Chances are they will be soft-boiled and you will make a mess when you attempt to de-shell them the wrong way.
- Shops will close earlier than you want them to.
- They still have a Woolworth’s.
- People will go into a castle and ask for “Two trivets, the shot glass that looks like a beer stein, and that T-Shirt that won’t fit me anyway” at the gift shop.
- There are more than 5 ways to denote right-of-way but I do not know precisely how many. After seeing the street signs for long enough they finally started to make sense (and they’re just like the Lego/Playmobil ones that I never knew what they meant).
- There is a town called Alf. I’ve been there.
- Italian food that sounds like it’s just pasta and sauce may actually come with tiny octopus tentacles. A bonus!