A quick summary: a memoir wherein the author, Jeroen Van Bergeijk, drives a Mercedes into West Africa to have a bit of an adventure as well as to turn a profit selling it to an African car dealer, or deserving cabbie, or whoever ends up actually producing the cash in the end.
It may be that [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘cars’
January 30, 2009
“My Mercedes Is Not For Sale”
January 6, 2009
Altered States
Sometimes I feel the need to make sense of our society’s drug policy. For a brief moment in the ’60s (or so I’ve heard, having not made my entrance into this world until 1970) there was a subculture of people experimenting with altered states of consciousness, often induced chemically. But besides that, we have all [...]
December 18, 2008
Laziness is not civilized!
Okay people, por favor, don’t let’s get completely pathetic.
I was walking through the parking lot at Target yesterday and I saw a perfectly able-bodied woman who, having loaded her SUV with Christmas surplus, was standing there watching the hatch close itself!!!
I am disgusted. This is not an awesome use of technology, people! This is [...]
July 31, 2008
Name that motor vehicle!
My husband and I have a tradition of naming our cars.
It officially began when I first met my husband, who at the time owned a white Ford Escort (I was a carless cyclist). Though we hardly knew each other at the time, he loaned it to me while he was away for Thanksgiving (an omen [...]
