Snowy Seattle Dec 2008

Rick's trip update

Greetings From Germany,







In Freiberg, luggage in tow !! C[a]me the next day.
Balmy weather ... all I need is a vest to keep warm ... no snow.
LHC is still broken ... I did my best ...
German beer is excellent ... no surprise there.

Seattle celebrates December 2008 snowstorm(s)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmrV7DbciBg
not much about the snowstorm, more about the Seattle zeitgeist or gestalt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q57W-nlqSDk
snowboarding down the middle of a Seattle street

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z07WVgaqMkg
Seattle cat in its first snow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VObTbGuvkQA
Seattle toddler in her first snow

1806 Travel blog for Avenchet, Geneva and Environs

The Monthly Anthology, and Boston Review

http://books.google.com/books?id=--caAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA13&lpg=PA13&dq=Avenchet+geneva&source=bl&ots=tOJS7Z1iDL&sig=7Vh7XvK6m-F7Fz54esP3fYanXc0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

Large Hadron Collider

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_Hadron_Collider

Rick's excellent Large Hadron Collider/European adventure

In Geneva, great hotel in the "Pioneer Square" part of town ... lots of restaurants, sex shops, and drinking opportunities. Got in around 11 AM or so yesterday. Decided to check a bag with some clothes in it, and another I borrowed from Gay that I put a book in, but more-or-less left empty in case I bought some cool German fashion statements. And, of course, both bags were lost. So, a bit of an annoyance filling out forms, etc. Hope maybe they'll arrive today.

Off to the LHC today ... take the 16 tram to Avenchet, then the 56 to CERN. The hotel gave me a bus pass. That's not gonna keep me from getting lost. At least the weather is nice ... well above freezing with a lite dusting of snow.

Everybody speaks French, gas is 1.39/liter (...Swiss Franks...). And, believe it or not, I still have not had any beer. And this keyboard, made by Dell, has the y and z keys switched ... somekind of French-Swiss thing. Go figure.