Date: 2004-04-25
To: Atlanta, GA, USA (tomorrow)
Miles today: 0.0

This is the last entry before I m leaving tomorrow. Next one will be I don t know where, I don t know when. Somewhere on the trail as soon as I will get the possibility to internet access. Hopefully I won t feel too knackered for writing. (knackered [ naeked ]= kaputt, guter Ausdruck aber britisch, nicht amerikanisch). The way the story goes referring to knackered: I learned this word once on my first long-distance walk since I felt all the time bl*** f****** kaputt =¢¦¢¦¢¦ Feel free to add sth. Freien Raum hinter kaputt ausf14llen, dann kann man es sich besser merken..Eventually ( Vorsicht! false friend nicht evtl. sondern ¢schlielich,endlich¢), tomorrow after having the last really big homemade muesli, off it goes ! Only 10 ( TEN ! ) hs to cross the celestial hemisphere from good old Europe to good old America. 10 hs ! I like nothing better. Except 11 hs, of course. AAARRRGGGGHHHH !!!!! %§?%-&(>Originally I schemed for to avoid that long fly and tried to soar up by myself(selber fliegen). According to my information one has to stiffen up completely and than let oneself fall over, face to ground, arms spread out. Most important: Think of nothing, expect nothing !!!.N O T H I N G !In this case ¢ the ¢Nothing Case ¢- just in the very moment before your nose touches the ground you will hover. Piece of cake ! After having managed that it should be easy to soar up and swing oneself swiftly through the sky and across the ocean. As you can see on my ¢about¢ photo ( Still laughing - it was one of the very first pics) I tried hard last winter. It was anything but (alles andere als) successful and soon I had to accept my limited skills. Not long after having started with the exercises I felt more like the calf than the swallow. Which is why I opt for booking a flight eventually. I d better done that right away..Last week I read a lot in the TJ and, hey folks ! it was interesting and exhilarating and sometimes sad as well. You all give me hope and fear and I feel even more motivated than ever before. And thanks for the journal! It is a great idea and excellent maintained. First I didn t have the intention to join in until I noticed that ¢Nuffy¢ is the only ¢Not-American¢ soul venturing the effort of the trail (and writing a TJ). I mulled over it and found: ¢It must be getting a bit more international¢. So I try my best and give you sth to laugh reading my nearly perfect Denglish = De(utschE)nglish or Genglish=Ge(rmanE)nglish?. Egal = never mind. In any case - nearly perfect. And later, on the trail it will get even better ¢ without the help of a dictionary.Look, this is what can be called ¢Trail Magic¢: first I didn t want to add any babble here. Second, I, unexpectedly, have a lot of fun to add some babble here. And third, I now feel sad not being able to add further babble here O.R.D.E.R.L.Y. (sic!) - as it is the law for a proper German ¢ while lumbering along the trail. Blimey ! What a sentence ! I hope, you can understand this. The construction took me hours. Makes me feel already knackered before starting the literal walk. Need a zero day. (Ruhetag)Looking forward to the time after the flight and, of course!, my first internet access. :-)BTW (by the way = 14brigens) ¢ top secret ¢ I managed to place some unique !! photos of the ¢Gartenzwerg¢ (sorry, again) Loreley Training Camp somwhere inside my TJ. Better not to be exposed on one of the main pages, though. Be smart ! Figure out the place (if you want) but (pssssst) don t tell anybody about!Happy trails !