Тропами Ивана Сусанина

Вот и завершилось замечательное путешествие по Костромской области. С 30-го октября по 3-е ноября 2009 года компания путешественников ездила в старинные Галичские земли. Когда-то город Галич был центром влиятельного княжества, а теперь райцентр Костромской области. Мы миновали Кострому и посетили города Судиславль, Галич, Чухлому, Солигалич, Буй и Любим. Вообще-то наши замыслы были гораздо ...

NEW Things that stick in my craw - travel lodging

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A Motel Recommendation For Watkins Glen, NY

... owners should simply buy a gun and shoot themselves in the head right now – there’s no sense in their leaving an even bigger carbon footprint if their economic value is nil , right? We sought lodging for the night in the seedy little village of Watkins Glen. For years Watkins Glen was famous as the Mecca of Grande Prix racing in America but with the rise of Nascar, nobody actually cares ...

Friends, you must start making grosteque amounts of money. For I have realized: like Wylde before me, I have only the skills to be a professional Guest. In exchange for gifts, lodging, food, and vacations, I can provide wit, stability, various psychological services, move heavy things, train animals, use my vast paranoiac knowledge of STDs when you're freaking out about a chance encounter, bring...

... scab. Cost: 5000T Surgery needed: Major Notes: On the down side the sudden release of clotting compounds has a 1 in 10 chance of causing a stroke or heart attack from clots lodging in the blood stream. Clavisware “Metaheme” Hematological Replacement Did you know your respiration was a lot more efficient before you were born? Oxygen was transported through your body using a molecule with a ...

It's Great To Have Friends

.... Race crossed his arms and sucked on his teeth, wondering when Blink was going to shut that big mouth of his. He and Mush were supposed to drop by pub for a quick drink before heading back to the lodging house, but then Blink was there and a "quick drink" turned into four or five pints and Race would be damned if it wasn't dusk. Race shifted in his chair and made a disgruntled sound, which, of ...

Story installment #1

... of the job was to be able to say they were working for the gods, but really, Lorelei thought helping people was the best part. Yeah, it was a pretty cushy job once you got into it, with fancy lodging and all kinds of benefits, but that was not what was important to Lorelei. On her first day off, Lorelei decided to sleep all day. She made it to about mid day before she got bored and decided to ...

The Girl From Farther Afield, Chapter One, Part One

...man. Bad luck, old chap." "Hah. Quite. Try not to make me regret this, just once. When you're ready, Sled-Whiteley downstairs should be able to give you all the paperwork for the flight and lodging and suchlike, and fill you in on whatever I've forgotten. For most of the details, though, you'll have to ask Fenstone-Nitt when you get there." He glanced sideways at Eleanor, still balanced atop his ...

And Then He Kissed Me

... you got to keep looking at the negative? How could I have never noticed how much of a downer you are?” Much smiled sternly. “You know what I think? I think that you should just come on back to the lodging house and lay on your bunk with a cool cloth on your head. Maybe then you will be back to normal.” Blink brightened. “Lay on my bunk, huh?” he waggled his eyebrows. “I’m taking you home. Now...

The Last Laugh

...was planning to move in on his territory. Damn that Spot and his mercenary ways. Jack had been a fool to think they were friends. A fool to let him spend as much time as he wanted lounging around the lodging house. Well, he wasn’t a fool any more and come morning it would be Spot who was damning him. Jack smiled to himself, pulled his hands free and began to whistle. Only a few hours more and he ...