Hard to tell, hard to tell


I almost feel like I live here now. Today, I worked in the bike shop that I rented the bike from last week. It has been a strange set of occurences but enjoyable, nonetheless.
Austin (the owner and neighbor of Wally) was glad to have some help I believe because he runs this place that does maintenance, repairs, rental, sales and everything else having to do with bike by himself. It's kind of like MOAB but a one man show.

Last night was good. I bought some groceries and read part of Road to Ballyshannon. It's a cool book because it has to do with the conflict here in NI. It's also interesting because it mentions a whole lot of the places that I visited on my bike ride.

I leave for Berlin tomorrow on my rescheduled ticket and will meet up with Matt and Lars. Good times I suspect.

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Acorn + Archer said…
So, are you working in the bike shop to make some extra money? Or as a type of barter system for having a place to stay?
8 June 2007 at 09:35
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