hello #2!

i am in frech speaking québec city. i`ve been in montreal these last weeks, and there also is the speaking of french, but here. gosh. i don`t stand a chance and wish you were here. for your constant and attentive translations i would pay you in the knick nacks and trinkets i picked up on the side of the highway during my 7 hr hitch here. its just incredable how many people want to give you a ride 10 minutes down the road when you have a sign stating clearly and in BOLD BLACK CAPITAL LETTERS that you are going the distance.

i am traveling with a friend, her name is sonia, and we came to see the musical group Beirut. but the venue was overcroweded and we didn`t stand a chance of getting it. and of course, like so many fall back plans concieved of and competently executed, we bought a bottle. ours we drank on the midevil city walls while the city music festival that brought beirut in sounded from sides all around us. then on our top-heavy bikes (which might of been more our top-heavy heads after that bottle) to the fairy, across the st laurence river, and the long bike to the house of sonias parents. anyway, all this is leading to you. you are involved in this story. because now it is morning, and a fluke would have it that sonias brother is here visiting also. and get this. he is flying to france tomorrow and will be in paris with no place to stay in a week.
so, you know. if you want to put him up for a minute your welcome to. he comes from good stock, and he actually got into the show last night, so i can speak highly of his musical tastes (if nothing else exactly) because they are somewhat similar to my own. and his sister is top knotch.

xxxxxxxxxx is how you can reach him. his name is Phill. but these frehch-0-phones they might spell it any old how.

i`ll be leaving montreal on saturday, on my bike with a friend who will be on hers, with her dog that will be in a trailer towed by her bike. we`ll be making tracks north of the great lakes and then south into minesota to minneapolis where i will be living this fall.

love you olin! i hope this letter reaches you well. lets try to talk friday night! i`ll email you again when it gets closer. there is one house where the phone rings!