Seat of Our Pants » music http://www.seatofourpants.com An around the world travel blog Fri, 30 Sep 2011 04:55:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 TGIF http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/10/30/tgif/ http://www.seatofourpants.com/2009/10/30/tgif/#comments Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:10:21 +0000 Martin http://www.seatofourpants.com/?p=1996 Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.]]> We just spent the week working on our projects, which gives us the right to celebrate this Friday in a way that simply has not been possible since we begun our trip six months ago.

 

So, here’s a Friday song for you other hard-working hard-workers out there. Keep it up!

 

 

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beatles back in the day

 

Ringo and his wife hated the food, so they left early. Paul packed in a month later. John would leave in a huff after three months, and went on to write an angry song about the Yogi. The ashram went belly-up in 1993, and its ruins are the home of various monkeys, hash-dealing sadhus and the occasional cow.

 

We’d like to say that we felt the wings of history flapping around us at our visit, but we were too busy avoiding stepping in cow dung to notice.

 

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