Grey FilastineHost
Nova Ruth SetyaningtyasGuest
Ben BlankenshipGuest
Claire FawcettGuest
Aaron MeyerGuestRight back from the earliest days of its history, the Dutch nation has fought to push back the sea from its land.
It is an epic story of a people who challenged nature and won.

As soon as they invented a machine big enough for the task, they dug a new shortcut from Amsterdam to the sea.

The town of IJmuiden grew up next to the locks of this new shortcut, and this is where Maria Rosa sat at the moment of purchase.

Simon, the previous owner, had promised a walkthrough of the ship to explain all the systems.


After that dizzying hour, I sat down to make notes from the footage, only to learn that digital media should never be delegated to an anti-technology primitivist.

Later that afternoon, a closer friend, Selcuk, arrived from Amsterdam to help out.

I'd just been informed by Simon, after the signover, of course, that the ship wasn't safe to sail and could only be moved under motor.

So Simon unhelpfully suggested we go buy diesel in town, a few kilometers away, without offering to drive us in his car.

So Selcuk and I each carried a pair of 30-liter jerry cans to a nearby public bus stop, where the driver miraculously let us on board.

Fortunately, I'm an expert at this because I used the humble shopping cart as a percussion instrument on stage for the last 10 years and had to swipe one for each gig.

Now we were two bearded, olive-complected foreigners pushing a stolen shopping cart heaped with gas cans around a sleepy village.

This might be a problem in many places, but I was quickly learning something about the Dutch.

While they aren't the most helpful tribe, they do have a libertarian streak best summed up as, "I'll mind my business.
Right back from the earliest days of its history, the Dutch nation has fought to push back the sea from its land.
It is an epic story of a people who challenged nature and won.

As soon as they invented a machine big enough for the task, they dug a new shortcut from Amsterdam to the sea.

The town of IJmuiden grew up next to the locks of this new shortcut, and this is where Maria Rosa sat at the moment of purchase.

Simon, the previous owner, had promised a walkthrough of the ship to explain all the systems.


After that dizzying hour, I sat down to make notes from the footage, only to learn that digital media should never be delegated to an anti-technology primitivist.

Later that afternoon, a closer friend, Selcuk, arrived from Amsterdam to help out.

I'd just been informed by Simon, after the signover, of course, that the ship wasn't safe to sail and could only be moved under motor.

So Simon unhelpfully suggested we go buy diesel in town, a few kilometers away, without offering to drive us in his car.

So Selcuk and I each carried a pair of 30-liter jerry cans to a nearby public bus stop, where the driver miraculously let us on board.

Fortunately, I'm an expert at this because I used the humble shopping cart as a percussion instrument on stage for the last 10 years and had to swipe one for each gig.

Now we were two bearded, olive-complected foreigners pushing a stolen shopping cart heaped with gas cans around a sleepy village.

This might be a problem in many places, but I was quickly learning something about the Dutch.

While they aren't the most helpful tribe, they do have a libertarian streak best summed up as, "I'll mind my business.
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