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Brussels\/Frankfurt\/Vilnius
\nApril 29, 2011\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Distance traveled today:\u00a0 965<\/h3>\n

Total distance traveled:\u00a0 8859<\/h3>\n

R.I.P. Mechanical Typewriter<\/h4>\n

The final factory in the world which was making mechanical typewriters \u2013 in Mumbai, India \u2013 has announced it\u2019s not going to make them any more.\u00a0 Manual typewriters will go the way of the buggy whip, the slide rule and Don\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell.\"vilnius_sign\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I learned to type on a monstrous, heavy, old battleaxe of a manual typewriter of\u00a0 my father’s.\u00a0 By my junior year in high school, I had figured out that\u00a0 touch-typing was a requirement for life as a modern adult, but I couldn’t\u00a0 picture spending an entire semester of school in a boring typing class.\u00a0 So I\u00a0 went to the typing teacher, introduced myself, and borrowed the typing training\u00a0 book from her and took it home and taught myself.\u00a0 One of the smartest things\u00a0 I’ve ever done.\u00a0 Of course, I didn’t get really good at typing until 1984 when I\u00a0 bought the very first Macintosh.\u00a0 Which, by the way, cost $2, 400, had no hard\u00a0 drive and could hardly do anything.\u00a0 But it was SO COOL.<\/p>\n

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\"Vilnius<\/a>
Vilnius is wall-to-wall gorgeous churches<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Today is my last day in beautiful Brussels!\u00a0 I\u2019ve really enjoyed my time here and I am sure I could spend far more time exploring this lovely, friendly, and easy-to-navigate city.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve also truly enjoyed working with the people in the Brussels office and I hope I get to cross paths with them again!<\/p>\n

But now it\u2019s off on the next leg of my adventure.\u00a0 Early this evening I fly to Vilnius, Lithania, were I will spend the weekend with my cousin John, his wife Milana and their new baby.\u00a0 It will be the farthest east I have ever traveled (beating Budapest) but not the farthest north (that\u2019s still Inverness, Scotland).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I got into Vilnius, the capital of Lithania, at about midnight.\u00a0 The plane was a few minutes late, and my tired cousin John met me and drove me to my hotel.<\/p>\n

\"John,<\/a>
John, Milana and Vivienne live in this groovy building in the middle of Old Town.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Most Northerly Places I\u2019ve Been<\/h4>\n
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  • Quebec City, Quebec, Canada<\/li>\n
  • Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada<\/li>\n
  • Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada<\/li>\n
  • Inverness, Scotland, UK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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