Taken in the Summer of 2012
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DAILY PHOTO: Trabant 601-E with Optional Roof Keg
Taken in the Summer of 2011.
It’s a monumental challenge for a police officer to spot an open container unless the offender happens to be driving the wrong way down the sidewalk backwards while asleep, or one’s car is wrapped around a telephone pole upside-down. However, if you get the Keg-o-matic 2000 dispensing system installed on your car, are you really guilty of having an open container? The hose that attaches the device to one’s lips is the only part actually inside the car.
NOTE: This blog neither condones nor celebrates driving while intoxicated. I just thought this car, which I saw in rural Hungary near the border with Slovakia, was amusing.
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DAILY PHOTO: Phnom Bakhang
Taken in October of 2012.
Phnom Bakhang is at Angkor. Its hilltop location makes it a popular spot for viewing the sunset. One can walk up, or ride and elephant for a fee. However, the cost to ride an elephant to the top is relatively exorbitant (one can spend a day at elephant camp for the same amount.) I’d recommend walking, and catching an elephant ride somewhere where there aren’t so many canned tourists. The walk isn’t arduous. However, if it’s your only opportunity to squeeze in an elephant ride, then what the heck.
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DAILY PHOTO: In the Forbidden City
Taken in the summer of 2008
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DAILY PHOTO: University of Debrecen
Taken in the summer of 2002
At which I attempted to learn the Hungarian language but was stymied by an excess of letters per word and an occasional disconcerting lack of vowels. (This is the main hall and wasn’t the building in which I was taught. Our classes (the language summer school) were taught downtown in a teacher’s college building.)
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DAILY PHOTO: Angkor Wat Portico
Taken in October of 2012
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DAILY PHOTO: Lake Lanier
Taken in the autumn of 2011
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DAILY PHOTO: Machu Picchu Residence
Taken in 2010
One thing I like about this photo is that the thin cloud looks reminiscent of chimney smoke, as if someone still resided in this rebuilt house that has been unoccupied for centuries.
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DAILY PHOTO: Old Town Tallinn Fortification
Taken in 2011 on the Bay of Finland side of Old Town
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DAILY PHOTO: A Rampaging Stakhanovite in the Szoborpark
Taken outside Budapest at the Statue Park in 2002
The Szoborpark, or Momento Park, is an open-air collection of Budapest’s old Communist-era statues. Needless to say, these statues were not popular, and many were probably rapidly destroyed when the Soviet strangle hold waned. However, a collection of these Lenins, Stalins, and their Hungarian equivalents (e.g. Béla Kun) remained. Furthermore, peppered into the collection were a few of images of the unknown “good soldier” and Stakhanovite workers, just to reinforce the notion that “all pigs are equal” (even if some are a little more so than others.) This one is the biggest of the lot. As I recall it stands about 2 stories high. The park is on the outskirts of town on the south side of the Buda (west) side of the Danube.
Tiger Riding for Beginners 