Red Mosquito

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

The Argonaut wrote:Hotel, for sure. Airbnb is, I'd agree, not nearly as affordable as it used to be. And the potential for awkwardness is always much higher.

The only way I'd see Airbnb being an advantage is when you're renting a house with a big group of people. That's advantageous over a bunch of hotel rooms, for sure.

BurtReynolds wrote:Never stayed at an airbnb. never got the appeal, tbh. I like that I can act like an utter pig at hotels.

VinylGuy wrote:I still use Airbnb, although its clear it got more expensive.

Im my recent trip to Europe we were three and rented a very cool place in Madrid, and awesome space in Cannes ( were the hotels i presume must be impossible) and had problems in Marseilles, were the place was a filthy hole. Really, it seemed people were living there.
We went to a hotel that also works kinda as a hostel and we had a blast.

I went alone to Belgium and Netherlands and repeated the hostel thing and by the time i got together with my business partner in Barcelona we decided to not even look for an Airbnb because we were two.