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I watched the first game of the world cup in Hong Kong. We stood outside of a bar watching it on a tv in the window. 100 or so people gathered in the street with us; beers were aplenty. Other pedestrians hurried through us as they made their way to some other drinking hole to [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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That is what Jay labeled Hong Kong. A little rough around the edges, but the remains of British control are evident everywhere. In HK the folks drive on the left side, spitting is outlawed, and English widespread. Lines exist, the people are a little heavier, littering frowned upon (steep fines), and the beaches clean. It [...]
Filed by ryanroth at June 28th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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When we first stumbled out of the clean confines of the international terminal in Taipei I was shocked by the preponderance of scooters and the seeming disregard by all vehicles for any sort of traffic rules. I may have mentioned this before – my first impressions were wrong. There are rules for the vehicles, especially [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 26th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World, Politik
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Taiwan is filled with scooters. They fill the streets, ride in packs, and get special treatment on the roads. It seems that scootering if life here, so naturally we decided to get in on the action. About that in a bit.
After escaping Taipei via a three hour train ride we (Kristen, Taylor, Jay & I) [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 22nd, 2010 under General Radness, Our World
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Taipei reminds me of Okinawa. The jungle, the temperature, the density, the smell, the cars, and even the people.
Kristen and I took different flights and arrived one hour apart. Public transport (bus & train) delivered us to our hostel by 8 am; the train was more crowded than I have ever seen before.
Some other [...]
Filed by ryanroth at May 18th, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Our World
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Alex called me two days ago and said, “I want to ride my cruiser up Flagstaff”. A split second later I was disappointed that I didn’t have a cruiser to follow suit. Naturally, my next thought was that if I couldn’t do it, I’d better haul some cameras up and document the event. This is [...]
Filed by ryanroth at March 31st, 2010 under General Radness, Life, Mowntins
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Hello People. I know it has been far too long since my last post. All of this traveling I’ve been doing has taken a lot of dollar and wind out of my sails. I’ll talk a little more about that soon.
But the reason for this here post is simple. Push America, the organization I have [...]
Filed by ryanroth at January 19th, 2010 under General Radness
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Those of you that know me well know I like to run. Those of you that know me really well know that I like to run everywhere. From the porch to the bus stop, from the bus stop to class, from class to class, along the curb, over rocks, you get it. The running is [...]
Filed by ryanroth at November 6th, 2008 under Endurants, General Radness, Life, Young & Hip
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To be honest, from Tuesday when I found out about the race all the way to Sunday morning I had some serious trouble sleeping. I couldn’t take a nap without thinking of the race, and I couldn’t take a ride because I had midterms that l considered far more important. A nasty catch-22, but somehow [...]
Filed by ryanroth at April 23rd, 2008 under Endurants, General Radness, Life, Mowntins, Young & Hip
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That’s professor Allan Franklin. He is a downright nutty cycling fan. On exams he names planets after the likes of Pantini, Armstrong, and Merckx. I don’t always get his teaching style or support his erasing skills, but the guy is funny and smart. But then again, he’s also the professor who refused to let me [...]
Filed by ryanroth at April 17th, 2008 under Endurants, General Radness, Young & Hip
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