This is the 4th week in a row that I will spend in a different city. I arrived in Bratislava on June 28th and spent the week there. I then was in Bracknell, back in Bratislava, Limerick, and soon will be in Austin, Texas. It wears on a person, or at least this person. I haven’t slept soundly through the night in a month and I have various aches and pains throughout my body. I’m not saying this so much as a complaint as this is what I signed up for when I agreed to move to Bratislava, but it’s more to say maybe I’m not built for this type of lifestyle or at least not at the advanced age of 31 years old.
As I left the apartment, I did notice the result of all the construction that has been going on next door to our building for the past month. See the picture below.
The positive side is that I’ve gotten my routine down pretty well for traveling from Vienna. It was an amazingly cool and breezy morning, so rather than take the bus, I walked to the central bus station to take the one hour bus to the Vienna airport. It’s easy (and roughly 10 times more expensive) to take a taxi, but there is something relaxing about sitting on the bus. The scenery is nice and it’s pure quiet for an hour. It’s a nice opportunity to enjoy the silence and leave me to my thoughts, which in this case primarily are around who I should designate as my keepers in my fantasy football league. I also re-started The Big Short by Michael Lewis. I had begun reading it a while ago, but stopped when I remembered I had a book to read for the rotational program I’m in at work.
The Vienna airport always seems to be crowded, but it seems as long as one avoids Austrian Airlines, it’s not too much of a hassle. I did notice today that there is an erotica shop in the airport, which is located directly next to the passport verification area. It seems like a perfectly nice and respectable establishment, but it is hard to understand the thought process that led them to opening in the airport. Who is buying erotica before boarding a plane? Here is what I came up with: people who are not happy with the on flight entertainment options and want to watch their own movies, people who arrived at the airport and realized they forgot to pack their sex toys, tourists who think it is hilarious that there is a sex shop in the airport and buy a “souvenir”, and lastly, it seems people in Europe are a lot more relaxed than Americans when it comes to sex and it may be as common as stopping at the airport bookstore to get a magazine or a bottle of water before boarding.
The Asian kid is screaming again.
It’s time to board. I’m excited to get to Austin and see Jenn, who I have not seen in a month. I also look forward to eating some Tex-Mex.
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