57 minutes near Tijuana.

Usually the text of a posting for this popular blog is written after breakfast in the morning.
While enjoying a cup of strong Irish Breakfast tea.
Before the text is written, a process of thinking has been taking place that often was in the head for at least one day.
Hence, first there is a general idea.
Next, it is simply a matter of writing it down.
But often, while writing down the result of the process of thinking, unexpected twists and turns occur.
Like little discoveries and inventions sneaking into the text.
Or surprising ways the text likes to be written.
And often conclusions that were not foreseen but cook up in the end.

To write a posting takes about 1 hours and 30 minutes.
Three cups of tea.
It is an elaborative job, mainly because writer has learned English later in life.
Combined with the ambition to write in correct English, this results in a serious approach to the job.
The text is first written with the software program Microsoft Word.
Once it is finished it is re-read a few times and often corrections are made.
Next, the spelling and grammar tool of Microsoft Word is used to find and correct any spelling mistakes.
Another tool used is the word count.
The ambition is to have postings of more or less 500 words.
Based on the philosophy that blog readers have a limited amount of time available to read.
Once the text seems to be OK, it is published on the blog.
But often re-reading it as the posting on the blog, it is edited once or twice again because only a perfect posting can pass.

Tomorrow morning very early the Fuso Szulc will drive into Tijuana.
In that dangerous city is the Consulate of China where a visa can be obtained.
It will be quite a challenge to find the consulate in the hustling and bustling town.
This is why, by exception, this time the new posting is written in the evening the day before.
Not a preferred time of day to write.
Because of driving the Fuso Szulc the whole day followed by running, a certain brilliance of the mind is missing that is absolutely needed to write a good posting.

Meanwhile a new obsession has been given free reign.
Every day at about 4 pm a nice location is chosen to spend the night in the Fuso Szulc.
A location is ideal if it offers the opportunity to do a late afternoon running.
Having been driving in the car for 7 hours in one day, the body wants to move and release energy and feel muscles and breath deep and hard and sweat.
Like today, north of Rosarito, a closed resort has been found where a kind lady gave permission to park and spend the night right next to the Pacific beach.
Great opportunity to do another run.
Like the days before, not just a little run.
But a serious run of 57 minutes.
On the beach while the sun was going down.
And the mood was going up.




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