Monday, August 31, 2009

Biffy Clyro Piano Sheet

30, 31 agosto - Savannah






La colazione che prepara Eleanore la mattina della partenza è un pranzo di nozze. C’è di tutto, anche un piatto di polenta che qui si mangia con il formaggio e che, in piena estate e alle 7 della mattina fa uno strano effect, but it is quite local customs, it's called cheese grits.
I take a couple of days to visit Savannah, Georgia. And 'one of the most celebrated cities of America for the beauty of its buildings and its history and all have advised me to do so. The Lonely Planet calls it a sleepy town and a little 'slut, "like a beautiful woman with a dirty face," but of great fascination for the presence of beautiful Victorian houses, half hidden by the big American evergreen oaks. These trees are covered with a " beard moss pending, Tillandsia, which is actually a plant with aerial roots, and that gives it a vaguely Gothic in historic districts of the city, un perfetto scenario per un film di Tim Burton.
Ed effettivamente Savannah ha avuto molto a che fare con il cinema; nel tour guidato che ho seguito oggi hanno citato almeno sei o sette film girati qui, tra cui “La signora in rosso”, ma quello che tutti ricordano è “Forrest Gump”, con la scena della scatola di cioccolatini sulla panchina della piazza. Ho fotografato la piazza in questione, Chippewa Square, che è una delle ventuno ancora esistenti in città e la famosa panchina. Ho anche pensato al fatto che a Washington avevo ripreso il Mall, teatro di un’altra scena famosa di questo film e che in fondo anche la traversata dell’America del podista Forrest Gump assomiglia un po’ al mio viaggio; ci sono the strange similarities between the two, but for now I do not want to pursue these.
said, and acknowledged the beauty of Savannah, one must also say that America is a young country and ever changing and the impact of an American city like this, with a historic 150 year virtually intact, with restored the old cotton warehouses, the avenues and squares, it is almost overwhelming, while a European, accustomed always to live in the middle of the story, it could simply say: well, not bad at this Savannah.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

Cowichan Knitting Patterns

August 29-E 'South


I became quite good with maps, now I can tell by the terrain and other signs that may be the type of road to face the next day. Last night I focused on route 17, which skirts an area of \u200b\u200bforest, following the course of Savannah, and in fact this morning I see the tables in the "scenic road".
There are things that change than the area of \u200b\u200bthe mountains, while the humid climate and vegetation. You begin to see the magnolias, oaks and beech trees to replace, but in spite of the season the entire environment around it is green. Today I rode for dozens of kilometers in the midst of pine forests, and this makes me a bit 'surprised, I thought I found a desolate and arid south and instead is something else. Also change the faces that you see around, just north of New York was very rare to see people of color, the blacks here are the great majority, and even how to talk a bit is changed, the speech is slurred and slow, measured in especially at times difficult to understand. Cycling
often listen to local radio stations, and almost all country music forward, in addition to the ubiquitous radio sermons of evangelical preachers, and political debates on health care reform that were prevalent in the north seem absent here.
That does not change is the availability people. This morning I met a couple of cyclists on Sunday, Eleanor and Alfred, who, after a chat rite ask me where I'm going to stay for the night, live in the country where I'm headed, Statesboro, and I offer a shower, dinner and overnight at home. I agree and I remember Jonathan, Asheville, told me about the great tradition of Southern hospitality I know now that was not joking.

Friday, August 28, 2009

Invitation For Pastor Anniversary

August 28 - Augusta National Golf Club




I do not have to enter. I tried to tell him that I did 2900 km in cycling just to be there,
"Only members are allowed"
I know all the names of the winners of the last 10 years (not true),
"That's The Way It Is"
which is the dream of my life in,
" Sorry, that's the way it is. "
There was nothing to do, that's the way it is, these are the rules. Maybe tell him the bike was a mistake, if I had told him pierced with Bentley, maybe ....
But in the end are not unhappy that it went well, indeed, the fact that I have withheld reinforces the idea of \u200b\u200bseriousness that I had made the place. Groucho Marx said: "I could never be a member of a circle accept a guy like me. "
would almost say that the refusal to let me in is a source of comfort for all who believe in something, is proof that there is still something sacred. In a world of ridiculous politicians, corrupt judges, a journeyman is still a place where there are no exceptions, winks and backroom deals, but only rules and fair play. We would have preferred that this place was politics, or justice, or school, but it's a field where you take a ball with a stick. For the moment we are content.
said that, as in life it takes a bit of balance, before I start I gave him a pisciatina on the gate closed dell'Augusta National Golf Club, Georgia.

Thursday, August 27, 2009

The Sims 2 Sims Muscular

26 August 27 - Georgia on my mind




Quando ho programmato il viaggio, definendo quei cinque o sei luoghi-culto da non mancare lungo il percorso, quello più a sud era (ed è) il campo da golf di Augusta, Georgia. L’Augusta National non è un campo da golf come gli altri, è IL campo da golf; qui si gioca da decenni il Masters, il torneo dei campioni, il suo circolo è considerato il più esclusivo del mondo e il suo campo forse il più bello.
Del circolo fanno parte ex U.S. presidents, captains of industry and finance like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet and top brass of various kinds. The route runs along what was a nursery 80 years ago, with trees, plants and flowers of great beauty that uniquely characterize each of the 18 holes. Bob Mathis said in Washington that even the club members are not allowed to camp for several months a year for maintenance work needed to keep it at this level.
The exclusivity of Augusta is legendary, it is virtually impossible to attend the Masters, there are tickets booked for years, perhaps for generations, and there are stories of separation between spouses where the judge has to consider the issue of who gets the tickets. Next year, however, here will play an Italian boy of 16 years, Matthew Manassero, the great white hope, a phenomenon seen not only at national level, which was invited because he has won everything there is to win at this level.
With this in mind, I do not have many chances to put his nose in, but I want to try the same, or with the history of the Pilgrim-cyclist came there to see the Temple, or hoping for a guard of Italian descent to close one eye. The important thing is that dogs do not just see me mollino horizon. Meanwhile
bends towards the south, in Georgia, there is in terms of temperatures, much higher than on the Appalachians. I spent the night in a State Park, beautiful lake view with a pitch, but the humidity was unbearable even at midnight.
For the first time yesterday I had some problems to find a WiFi line with the public library closed and the center's premises which were not related. I made an attempt at a place in Italy would be the last to be searched: the gas station. Result: two stations fully operational. Here all the gas stations have the adjoining shop, which in addition to selling the usual brushes, road maps and cleaning agents is also a grocery store and more. A few weeks ago, in withdrawal symptoms from milk was looking for a pack of half liter, because of course there are those in supermarkets da uno o mezzo gallone. Ma il benzinaio ce l’aveva, insieme al cappuccino ghiacciato e al pane, migliore di quello degli alimentari.
Perché funziona così? Forse anche qui la cultura dell’automobile gioca un ruolo importante o forse è l’ossessione degli americani per il non perdere tempo e fare tutto in fretta. Anche gli sportelli bancari qui sono tutti come i drive through di MacDonald, non si entra in banca ma si va con l’auto ad uno sportello apposito e si fanno tutte le operazioni senza scendere, collegati con l’impiegato all’interno se serve, se no si dialoga con la macchina. Chissà se sarà questo anche il nostro futuro.