Tuesday, May 7: leaving Amsterdam, Back in Philly

I got up at 4 AM and had everything ready and when I went to the 

Google Maps the train that I saw last night didn’t exist so I tried to catch this local train. Got lost trying to find it so I said fuck it. I’ll just take the 515 train then

 when I got to Amsterdam Central after going underneath 
the tunnel to go to the other side,told me about five section 5 had to train that I was supposed to go to so I caught this train with about a minute to spare. Thanks for this 

nice couple. Well, it’s 7:20 PM and we’re finally just about to go in the runway to takeoff. This flight is mostly empty actually but they still managed 

to jam all of us tuck together. It’s kind of funny. I arrived to Copenhagen and soon realized I was at the furthest gate, which was gate. The Casey of all kinds of luxury, good and restaurants this part of the airport

 vending machine or you can buy from 7-Eleven go so I killed time by eating a sandwich falling asleep on the table for a minute

 and updating my blog from yesterday. it’s now 1148 boarding has started for this flight. It really has started for this flight. I’m not able to charge my phone so it’s going to 
be somewhat dicey. Keep the battery going. Well, the flight went smoothly. I couldn’t touch my phone
because I know after it goes below 20% the battery runs out really quickly

. They gave us a decent dinner and about an hour and a half before landing they gave us a little sandwich so it was pretty good treatment I must say. I’m now at passport control. It’s 3:02 PM 4:28 PM,  I had 

to go to the third-floor of the airport after passport control. Passport control was really

 simple because they had biometrics and they didn’t ask me any 

questions. Bob picked me up on the third level of the airport. We tried
to drive to the Amtrak station at Newark liberty airport but you can’t get there so so we had to drive into downtown Newark and I missed
one train 



but made another train with a minute to spare so I’ll get to Philly at 5:30. 

well, I got the five if Philly at 5:30 PM sharp the train was right on time.

 I just decided to forgo the cab because there was the only cab with some kind of gypsy dude. I was like screw that so I luckily caught the EL as it was showing

 up This alarm was buzzing so LOUD I was glad to catch the train so quickly.  I walked up to Walnut Street and 15th and caught the first bus. & went to Mary’s. It is 

very warm out. I am wearing a winter coat fortunate taken off my warm shirt otherwise I’d be sweating like a madman. I relaxed at Mary’s where I was treated to 

a leftover breakfast burrito and some yogurt. I also forgot to take a nice cleansing
shower. That was really appreciated because otherwise I’ll be going into 

choir but draggled and tired so I had to do was just show up a little bit tired and

 pushed through.choir practice was somewhat long and drawn out. He forgot

 he started rehearsal at seven and instead of 730 so I was about 10 to 12 minutes late. It didn’t matter today which was nice. We didn’t rehearsal till 950. To park

 my mind at 10:10 PM tonight part of me is at 4:10 AM exactly 24 hours ago when I woke up. So tomorrow I start back at work and I will not be going to yoga because I’m going to book signing.

Wednesday, April 24: Stockholm, to Amsterdam

I arrived at Stockholm and the process was pretty smooth. I 
got through customs and border security pretty smoothly. It’s now 7:30 PM for some reason my phone has not converted automatically to their time which is six 
hours ahead so my plane starts boarding in 10 minutes, but I was able to find, a water station and also a plug-in station where I could 
plug in 
my USB right into the wall, which is pretty convenient because they don’t have them in the airport the United States that I know of. Well, that connecting flight I was pretty miserable. The 

guy in front of me acted like an entitled boomer in the worst variety

 kept banging the chair took up all the space in there luggage area and I just hit 

a wall where I was just I felt like the cabin pressure was high, but 

I was holding on… Anyway, once I landed, I thought I could just walk out somewhere

 catch the train but no, I just kept walking and walking and walking

 and walking out how to get the Sim to work. I know it now works. I can get 

the Internet, Facebook and Google Maps but no texting or phone 

calls so oh well , I finally found a place to get coffee next to the Starbucks. I was going to

 go to Starbucks but I decided to go to a place it’s local so I’m 

waiting for Bob who said he could pick me up 11:07 AM Amsterdam time. Well, Bob found out there was 5 Starbucks at the airport so he found me and we talked a little bit and then we walked

 a little bit more to the train which took us to a nice part of the town and then we took a ferry ride, which is really nice 

Next he took me to  
the Amsterdam museum and showed 

me around town. We saw this huge old shipyard which is now on Arness colony 

and they have these things that are literally called pisswarres. 

I could literally piss outside its clothes but you just piss on the sidewalk. It’s just one of the weirdest things I ever experienced.



  It was really weird. I mean I did it, but I could look through little holes and look at people as on pissing which is blowing let’s put it that way. Anyway, I was tired

, but I persevered and had a little coffee to help me. I was running on adrenaline.Anyhow , one thing I noticed is that the there are bikes everywhere and 

yes I heard about that everyone has but they are really aggressive and you have to keep your eyes open. You’ll get run over by bikes. I gotta be really careful

 not stare at my phone. Anyhow, the weather is really 

changeable. It goes one minute. It’s got sunshine. Next minute starts to rain. We even 

had hail for a little while , but then it stops so it’s not torrential rain. 

It’s just periodic off it on again. This is the only place I’ve seen where it looks really 

it. we also went to the recently opened holocaust museum here in 

Amsterdam. It’s very powerful and it’s minimalism and the spells a word in 

Hebrew the way it’s designed. Each little brick is an even of 

person who is killed by the Nazis in Amsterdam by itself it’s a lot of people

 holy shit. It’s a lot of people, speaking of which Lisa got me a ticket 



today and Frank. From what I’m told it’s hard to get there so I’m going there tomorrow at 10 AM.   
I have a museum card that I paid for the Bob got me so it’s a really useful thing to have here in Amsterdam and it will also be a wonderfulsouvenir
 when I get back. I’m still also get a Transit card but hasn’t arrived in the mail yet. Bob broke them back and asked if it was on its way so it’s all cool. You just use a credit card to get on the trains.