June 2024
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June 23rd, 2024. Trolls!
Day 4: Trolls! George got a van from the rental place to fit all 6 of us… The whole family went to the De Schorr park in Boom, Belgium (near Antwerp) to see the troll sculptures. When we arrived we found many areas were blocked off for construction of the Tomorrowland music festival – a…
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June 22nd, 2024. Day 3: Ghent
Before we headed out, we ran some errands with Del, including sorting the recycling… Based on some photos I’d seen, I thought Ghent would be kind of similar to Bruges…nope! It’s more of a living, breathing city where Bruges seems like more of a time capsule. Bigger mix of old & newer and also seems…
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June 21st, 2024. Discombobulated in Brussels.
4.30am or so, sitting in my brother’s yard and listening to the world wake up. I think I’ve been away from home for about 32 hours and my body is absolutely confused. I can’t tell if the sun’s coming up or if it’s just city light, the birds are going a little bit crazy and…
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June 21st, 2024. Day 2.
Day 2: Bruges Let the massive photo dumps begin! George took us to Bruges. From their place in Woluwe, we took the tram and metro (taking a detour to see a little more of Brussels), and then the train. Once in Bruges we walked A LOT (almost 9 miles), ate Belgian things, went in St.…
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June 20th, 2024. Probably.
These are my last images of home before we are whisked away by our friend Amy to BWI. The room is prepped for my nephews. I wish them luck. Things are sort of in order for a given value of order, and by the time I’m writing this, I’m sadly disappointed, as I was hoping…
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June 20th, 2024. Day 1.
[I’m transcribing from Kristen’s Facebook posts, because I feel like this stuff should Live someplace we OWN as opposed to just on Facebook just BECAUSE + you don’t hear from Kristen enough! – rob] — at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). Day 1: longer than 24 hrs, but mostly travel – BWI – KEF (Iceland) – BRU…
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June 18th, 2024. The SPARK w Alex Lacquement.
A decently full night for my last night in town and for our featured artist Alex Lacquement. The open mic started off really, really well. It didn’t continue on a steady trajectory, but it ended on a high note, though the feature was a low note. A really great low note. Because the feature was…
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June 16th, 2024. The Music City Open Mic.
New to us pals, Paul and Russ. I had a comical name kerfuffle with Russ, but we got over it. Here they’re joined by the spectacular Thilman Benham. I’m going to write this relatively swiftly because I’ve got to make some last minute laundry decisions before flying to Europe. Tonight was one of the best…
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June 11th, 2024. The SPARK w Robert Lighthouse.
Oof. I got in a little bit late and Eisner was NOWHERE to be found, which, with the room completely cleared out like this by one of the weekend events, was a pain in the ass. Fortunately someone had seen the lights in one of the other rooms, I found a music stand, someone helped…
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June 9th, 2024. Gotta go tho.
It’s beautiful to be in Putnam again. I’m sticking to my guns and saying the waterfall looks cleaner to me than it used to. Though Victoria Station Cafe is long gone at this point, we’ve found a new coffee joint that seems to get us. Particle Accelerator was a beautiful day of music of all…