TRAVEL DIARY

A weblog regularly updated by Jodi Rose.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

2:02 PM
Posted by jodi rose

Last rainy sunday in Berlin... camped out in the internet cafe, making the most of my final hours online and tech-equipped. As you know, I'm about to become a post-media artist. Apologies for unanswered emails, in advance. Letting a few deadlines slide by too. You know, I just don't have the energy. Burned out from trying to arrange mega projects. I'm just going to float for a while. Assuming I manage to located the french radio boat crew tomorrow. The directions I have are: go to Bratislava, and call this french mobile phone number. I have absolute confidence that we will find each other, even with this vague arrangement. And hey, it's a chance to really live what I preach... this from a letter to a friend earlier in the week:

"Sometimes it's good to free yourself from trying to know anything, or make choices. Just give yourself to life and see where it takes you."

And where it takes you is a mystery, until you get there, at which point is simply becomes where you are. I like the return to Bratislava, there's a nice circularity to it, since the name of the barge is 'Ange Gabriel' and the first time I went there in 2002, I had to meet a Mr Gabriel for my very dodgy loft bed with leopard-print decor and mirrors. It was next to the american embassy, and he wouldn't let my Slovak friend come with me to the apt, due to some left-over paranoia... everything worked out fine then, and am sure it will now.

The beginning of a plan hatching for October, will see where it goes...

Bon voyage, may be able to update sporadically from the Danube, otherwise, see you in three weeks. xxx jodi