Casa Robino

Yesterday I & Robin tripped over to Den Bosch to get a whole another kind of free hug - this one was by Amma who's done like 26 million of them.

Hitching there was according to Robin easiest he's ever done - for my third time (&counting), I really have no frame of reference.

* hitch at traffic lights somewhere nearby Amstel station, with the first car we asked, to the next gas station just a few hundred meters away (walking is for wimps ;)

* At the gas station, I overcame some Finnish tendencies to ask two drivers - not a totally unpleasant experience after getting used to the idea. Unfortunately neither were going to our direction so once we spotted our casa co-hitchers Derek & Matt getting to the station (walking! looosers!), Robin just decided to stop the first car he saw and boom, we were on our way to just after Utrecht.

* Coffee break, and while I was visiting the rest room, Robin spoke us up on a ride to... all the way to the sports center in Den Bosch. Our driver was soon-to-be Asia-traveler so tipping him off on hospitality networks felt like the right thing to do. (bewelcome was the one he kept repeating to himself)

100% score for Robin - three questions, three rides! (damn, I seem to be a rather good hitching-mascot, so in case you're hitching to wherever from here soon I might just tag along as a good luck charm ;)

Hug taught me a few things and hopefully some of the energy felt by others also rubbed on me a bit. Give and thou shalt receive, ask and it will be there: I lost my hug-ticket, got one from Robin, just about to walk on the stage to receive my hug asked if someone could help him in as well, and received spare ticket from lady sitting next to me whose daughter didn't need to use hers. Magical.

Ride back was even easier. We were sitting happily watching the hugging go on and on and on, while pimping up our sign ever so more. Then somebody asked us "do you wanna go now, I'm ready to go". An hour and a half later we were dropped in front of the door at 4 am.

Thanks a lot, Random Roads! (need to follow you more)

Getting by
day by day
setting goals
planning for yet another
sustainable exit

Fingers crossed.

Keys, especially bike keys get lost in this house occasionally. So I went out and bought a few helpful things, hopefully the chaos won't keep swallowing too much more keys now...

Things are somewhat color-coded:
* Gypsy is the big yellow bike -> yellow tag (and yellow clocs as well ;)
* Locomotief is green
* All housekeys are red (there's a big red key ring to be used with the other outdoor key)

Some more tags need to find their bike keys still, but that's for someone else to figure out.
(typing-credits go to Pax)