It Is A New Blog!

Hello friends and family—it is I, Max, coming to you live from Beautiful Europe, except I’m actually on an airplane, and of course I’m not really live because there ain’t no wireless internet on airplanes.

Anyways: Welcome to Unterwegs, the blog for people who want to know what Max is doing in Berlin! I’m going to Berlin, by the way, to study for 5 or so months. I’ll be back in the States in late July, but until then I will be relatively tricky to contact. Numerous people told me they wanted to “keep in touch,” and I’d say at least half of them meant it, and that’s still way too many emails to send out. A blog should be economic (as it is completely free) and interactive (as you can comment on posts if you feel like it) and fun (as I can post photos and stories and you can look at them and read them, respectively), and besides, I’m always looking for an excuse to start another blog.

Postcard policy: if you send me a postcard, I’ll send you one back. Unless if you are my grandmother—then I will send you a postcard free of charge.

Speaking of grandmothers…
Content policy: my grandmothers are (I hope) going to be reading this blog. Therefore I will be omitting the more disgusting turns of phrase and youthful, rambunctious vulgarities that typically pepper my online prose. (I will also write things like “pepper my prose.”) I ask you all to please do the same in comments. (i.e. Be decent and respectful, not write things like “pepper my prose.”) If you have a really hilarious cuss that you just have to share with me, you can always email it.

Here is a picture of me. Sorry I am so scruffy—it is tough to find time to shave on the road, and my stubble waits for no man. I’ll scrape it off in London, I promise!

sorry i look so grouchy this was the only one that came out in focus

This little television tells me I am four hours out of London and 10, 670 meters off the ground, but it also tells me that the external temperature is -82 C, and our current course seems to have us headed towards the middle of the Sahara Desert rather than jolly old En-gland, so I really don’t know what to think about this little television. Some visionary employee has managed to get around the Boring, Crappy In-Flight Movies Only policy and sneak The Blues Brothers in between The Blind Side and All About Steve, so if you’ll excuse me I need to go watch it for the thousandth time.

That’s all for now! Pictures of London to come!
P.S.: Unterwegs is German for “on the way” or “in transit.” It is also the German title of On the Road.

Rejected blog names:
German Blog
BLAG
Five Star Soul Food Restaurant
Girls I Like
What Max Is Doing In Germany
Teakettle Junction
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P.P.S.: This blog still needs a motto. I’m hoping to find something in Berlin.

Rejected blog mottos:
Be Nice
Trying Real Hard To Be The Shepherd
Swords Are No More Use Here
See You In The Funny Papers