How I spent my Summer Vacation

Right..Random Blog (after the summer hiatus)

Trip Highlights:
1.) Latvia-Lithuania border – border guard thought I was going to walk to Kaunas after Mira drove across the border while I waited for him to stamp my passport..(damn them and their EU passports) – seriously…here is the dialog (after he WATCHED me get off the bike and I handed him my passport – I had taken off my helmet already and Mira and the gang were across already:

Border Guard (upon noticing me standing there sweating to death in my driving gear): “Where you go?”
Me: “Uh. Kaunas”
Border guard looks me up and down. By the way at this point I should mention that he fit every damned stereotype of a border guard every American has seen in those movies from the cold war. Visual: Open shirt with hairy chest and gold chains, sweat stained pits, stubble on the chin, badly fitting trousers which were possibly from his normal job (plumber) and really bad garlic breath
Border Guard (incredulously): “How?”
Me (indicating the 4 other women who just passed him by on motorcycles on the otherside of his wretched border): “With THEM?”
At this point he realized he was an idiot

2.) Lithuania – B&B owner’s husband drove all of us to a restaurant so we could get food and drinks – oh and did you know that "Thank You" in Lithuanian sounds like a sneeze? Seriously..I don’t know how it is spelled in Lithuanian but it is pronounced. Ah-chew

3.) Poland – Who knew an intersection was a place to pass people – they did it on the right, left and sometimes I swear they wanted to go OVER us…oh and speed limit signs are a mere suggestion for the locals..

4.) Germany - driving through rain in which I swear I saw Noah, the Ark and the animals lining up 2 by 2 was an experience I do not wish to repeat. The gathering was great though :) Cold and wet for most of it, but great. I am so fluent in German now.

5.) The Dutch really are nice…except for drunken idiots who steal your taxi causing one of the calmest women I know to swear like a sailor while flipping the bird and having to be held back by her girlfriend. Randomly invited up to a party in someone’s house and then when we get there – there is a person which Hale and Mira met 2 years ago and this person had no idea that we were the people the hosts randomly chose from the street to come up (during the Pride Parade btw).. Pride was AWESOME.. I seriously think that K, D, Mel, Laura, Michael, Derrick and us should do Amsterdam Pride one year…It puts Boston to shame folks…

6.) The Danes – Copenhagen is beautiful. The people are incredibly nice…but damn it is it one flat country…pretty boring to drive through

7.) The Swedes – It should be illegal to have so many beautiful people in one place…oh and if I thought Denmark was boring to drive through…Sweden is the motherload of boring driving…

8.) Turku to Helsinki – after 4710 Km..we had 170 left…wouldn’t you know…40km from home…TORRENTIAL RAINS…again…

Best Part of Summer Vacation…learning I have big healthy boobies….