4th of july
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nibotrecent 4ths-of-july:
2004 - san diego, ca. a hilarious account of my fourth-of-july by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
emosnail, and another by furzicle.
2003 - geneva, switzerland. this is actually the location of the largest american independence day celebration outside of the usa. the swiss throw off all manner of fireworks. supposedly. silly me, I thought they'd launch them over the lake, but instead they launched them over a stadium somewhere, so liz and i missed them entirely. however, we did go to the bastille day celebration in ferney-voltaire, which was a hoot.
2002 - rehovot, israel. i don't remember what we were doing. it was a thursday and i doubt i did anything special; however, i do have vague memories of a lot of people giving me congratulatory greetings. they like us there. a few days ago someone was saying how he didn't want to be in oceanside for july 4, because he thought all the military types would go nuts with shooting off RPG's into the air and whatnot. i thought this was quite unlikely, but it did remind me a time in wadi musa, jordan. tony and i were walking down the street when suddenly there was a rattt-atatatatatat of a machine gun very near. we both dove for cover immediately. then a jordanian guy burst out laughing, exclaiming "it's just a wedding!"
2001 - lund, sweden. our swedish mentors (such asbaseballump seemed very axious that they provide us with some activity that was 'sufficiently american'. a barbecue was suggested and we eagerly agreed that it seemed a properly american thing to do. later, however, i came to see barbecues as more of a swedish phenomenon. you'll understand if you're in the country on april 30.
2000 - san francisco, ca. i believe i went to the warped tour to see weezer and green day on one of the piers, then saw the fireworks from the embarcadero, but i could be connecting unrelated memories.
1999 - on the way to inuvik, northwest territory. we had a four day holiday from the university, so we went on a crazed 1800 mile roadtrip over unpaved highway to reach the arctic ocean. no independence day festivities per se.
1998 and previous -- street fair in mission viejo, ca ?
2004 - san diego, ca. a hilarious account of my fourth-of-july by
emosnail, and another by furzicle.2003 - geneva, switzerland. this is actually the location of the largest american independence day celebration outside of the usa. the swiss throw off all manner of fireworks. supposedly. silly me, I thought they'd launch them over the lake, but instead they launched them over a stadium somewhere, so liz and i missed them entirely. however, we did go to the bastille day celebration in ferney-voltaire, which was a hoot.
2002 - rehovot, israel. i don't remember what we were doing. it was a thursday and i doubt i did anything special; however, i do have vague memories of a lot of people giving me congratulatory greetings. they like us there. a few days ago someone was saying how he didn't want to be in oceanside for july 4, because he thought all the military types would go nuts with shooting off RPG's into the air and whatnot. i thought this was quite unlikely, but it did remind me a time in wadi musa, jordan. tony and i were walking down the street when suddenly there was a rattt-atatatatatat of a machine gun very near. we both dove for cover immediately. then a jordanian guy burst out laughing, exclaiming "it's just a wedding!"
2001 - lund, sweden. our swedish mentors (such as
baseballump seemed very axious that they provide us with some activity that was 'sufficiently american'. a barbecue was suggested and we eagerly agreed that it seemed a properly american thing to do. later, however, i came to see barbecues as more of a swedish phenomenon. you'll understand if you're in the country on april 30.2000 - san francisco, ca. i believe i went to the warped tour to see weezer and green day on one of the piers, then saw the fireworks from the embarcadero, but i could be connecting unrelated memories.
1999 - on the way to inuvik, northwest territory. we had a four day holiday from the university, so we went on a crazed 1800 mile roadtrip over unpaved highway to reach the arctic ocean. no independence day festivities per se.
1998 and previous -- street fair in mission viejo, ca ?
