Moving Thoughts

by Michael Bear · 2009-06-29 08:50:00 UTC
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When planning a move in San Francisco, perhaps best not to schedule said move the same day as the Gay Pride Parade.  Especially when one's new apartment lies a block off the parade route.

The move has since been temporarily rescheduled.

All of which gave me plenty of time last night to remember other transportation-related life lessons, such as:

- In Los Angeles - surface roads, surface roads, surface roads.

- In Mosul, don't make eye contact.  Also best not to laugh at an Iraqi policeman wearing a cowboy hat that looked as tho it had once been owned by the Village People.  Or Barbra Streisand.  Especially if said policeman is currently screaming at you to pull over.

- In Nairobi, it's useful to remember the exact location of the various unmarked speedbumps on major roads.  Especially, say, near the intersection of James Gichuru and Gitanga.

That speedbump was my white whale.

- In Kabul, armored vehicles always have the right of way.  (Also best not to dwell on the amount of fecal matter in the air.  Then again, who doesn't love open sewers?)

Re-reading this, I fear I've failed the Nicholas Kristof inadequacy test.  So it goes, so it goes.  We'll return with our regularly scheduled humanitarian-blogging manyana.

[Photo from www.bestgaytoronto.com]

Michael Bear
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