Tumbleweed
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Tumbleweed
by Jimmy Trout
Raisin
debtor.
Of
all of the tortured, mutated, bastardized French you may have heard from your
fellow expats in Paris (and that you may ... |
14-05-2008
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Tumbleweed
by Jimmy Trout
Hobo Heaven
I may have arrived in France entirely by accident, but
with the time I now have under my belt living Hexagonally, I know... |
30-04-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout The Grand Duke Having traveled zillions of miles by road and rail, I have often found uncommon wisdom from the commonest of sources. Nowhere is that m... |
21-02-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Under the Influence. My old friend Hubcap Charlie could always be relied upon for clairvoyant counsel, although such advice was often delivered in an inoppo... |
12-02-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout If only it were that easy. In life, a lot of us have guilty pleasures—things we’re not supposed to like, but actually do. My guilty pleasure... |
29-01-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout High-class Hobo. My most recent coaching gig was by far the most interesting yet—not for what I taught, but for what I learned. As you may reca... |
16-01-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Mauritian Apparition. A single ray of light awoke me. Her name was Kiran. She was pulling back the curtains, exposing an expansive view of the Pl... |
02-01-2008
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Forever Roamin’. Itinerancy is not just an act of moving about, but is a state of mind. I have almost always been itinerant in both senses of the wo... |
26-12-2007
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout My coloc: Tommy the timeshare hobo opens his home God didn’t intend for hobos to sleep indoors. There’s something about sleeping in the ope... |
18-12-2007
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Where no one has gone before: an epiphany. While visiting with my new friend Tommy C. Billings the other day in his current timeshare on the rue Faubourg Saint-... |
04-12-2007
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout Coach Jimmy. Both before and after arriving in France, I’ve done all kinds of gigs to make a buck and each one seemed stranger than the last. I ... |
27-11-2007
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 | Tumbleweed by Jimmy Trout The Strike: Jimmy profits from your misfortune The Ministry of Finance says that this strike is costing France 300 million euros a day, which I don&rs... |
20-11-2007
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Tumbleweed
by Jimmy Trout
Tommy the Timeshare Hobo:
Jimmy Trout meets his Bizarro world twin
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13-11-2007
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 | Hobo hygiene: re-writing the book for the other side of the pond Keeping clean, well-kempt and well-fed while living itinerantly is not nearly as difficult or disgusting as you might ... |
06-11-2007
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 | Elbow Grease: A hobo has to earn his keep. Having found at least temporary shelter, I moved on to priority number two: earning a little money. After all, I had been in France fo... |
29-10-2007
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 | Arrival: Jimmy Trout finally makes it to Paris. The distance between Le Havre and Paris may seem miniscule on a map, but it took me almost as long as my 4,701-mile Atlantic crossing... |
23-10-2007
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 | Sets of three: A hobo life lesson plays out in France. It is common practice among hobos, as with many primitive cultures, for elders to hold court, espousing eccentricity and propaga... |
16-10-2007
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 | Acadian revenge: JT discovers the law of unintended consequences. Having been mistaken as an insane Frenchman instead of a sane foreigner by the police officer I encountered in the p... |
09-10-2007
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 | Divided by a common tongue: Jimmy finds that Cajun and French aren’t the same language. It was the television that woke me up, but the incessant moaning across the room is what... |
26-09-2007
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 | Disembark gently: Trout is taken into custody. It turns out that the colorful specks in the sand—in brilliant shades of red, yellow, orange and blue—were beach umbrellas.&... |
25-09-2007
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