(Almost) Free Gasoline!
We've noticed this on multiple drives through Grantsburg, WI: gas priced at just under 1¢/gallon! With war-induced inflation seeing prices approaching $5/gallon, this is definitely unexpected! My wife believes it's…
Biking From Keuekenhof
You are spending the better part of a (hopefully) gorgeous afternoon walking the impeccably-manicured grounds of Keukenhof: enjoying the plethora of tulips and flowers, ascending the windmill to get views…
Book Review: The Transylvania Trilogy
The Transylvania Trilogy, or Erdélyi történet in Hungarian, is, at its essence, a romance novel: boy (Bálint Abády) grows up with girl (Adrienne Uzdy); girl enters loveless marriage; boy expresses…
Forum Groningen
Groningen is the largest city in northern Netherlands, the sixth largest in the Netherlands, and the province capital. Today it's home for two major university with an estimated 25% of…
Book Review: Swastika Night
Swastika Night is yet another World War II alternative history where the Axis Powers - Nazi Germany and the Japanese Empire - defeat the Allies and now occupy the defeated…
“Chicken Are Decent People”
This sign reminded me of a George Carlin riff from his 1996 Back In Town HBO show: Here’s another question I have. How come when it’s us, it’s an abortion,…
Museum To Go
After paying for admission to the Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt, I was handed this Museum To Go card. As someone explained, you tap the card on devices throughout the museum for…
Caricatura Museum Frankfurt
The Caricatura Museum was an unplanned, unexpected gem found on a day trip to Frankfurt, Germany: it hadn't yet opened, so I continued on to Frankfurt's other sites and museums…
Phone Books
Not all that long ago, while traveling overseas, I'd find a phone booth and call my family to confirm I was still alive. I even memorized my AT&T calling card…
For massages? Yeah, sure….
Left, a magazine advertisement from the 1950s; right, a storefront in Frankfurt, Germany saying Believe me, it's only for massages. Apparently nothing has changed in seventy years. Despite women's sexual…