August 10, 2006

What a clean city. How clean and rapid and reliable are the buses and trains—it kind of makes San Francisco seem like the Third World. Every time I visit western Europe, I think that I must find a way to live here, at least for a while.

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Texts and images copyright (C) 2022 Pauline Kerschen. Layout adapted from the Single A Tumblr theme by businessbullpen. The Greater Roadrunner (Geococcyx californianus) has zygodactylic feet, leaving X-shaped tracks with ambiguous direction. The Pueblo and Hopi used the X symbol to mislead evil spirits. Border folklore in the early twentieth century held that a roadrunner would lead a lost traveler back to his path. In Mexico the roadrunner is known as paisano, countryman.