Jessie’s been a busy little blogger in Budapest, oh so close to a working phone line, and only 4 months of trying. Welcome to Eastern Europe I suppose. She appears to be whiling away the hours at drink with the Irish, not quite a recipe for sobriety, now is it. Still chunking the deuce though, that’s the fighting spirit!

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What is it about human nature that makes this phenomenon inevitable? A Flickr stream has been collecting pictures of (relatively) ordinary folks from all over the world who visit the leaning tower of Pisa and all decide to take the same wacky picture, positioned between the camera and the tower in such a way that it appears they are holding it up. What prompts people to do this? Is it some deepseated instinctual response? Do they simply see others doing it? Beats me. Pretty funny though.

Flickr Stream of Pisa Pushers

Forgot to post my pix from Mexico, from a couple of days in San Miguel de Allende and some more building sanitarios ecologias with St. Anthony’s Pharmacy in Rancho el Colorada.

At right: the sign is from an ice cream vendor we found on a stop in Dolores Hidalgo. Me gusto mucho tequila-flavored ice cream. Bluebell needs to send some market research people south of the border.