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Karl Grossner, geographer, nomad (still), co-instigator and former lead dev of whgazetter.org. #place, wannabe #stoic, looking into #folklore with AI-ish methods. In Vienna again until mid-November.
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Hasta luego Europa
November 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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🧵 111, 112/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Catalunya stays in Montbrió del Camp and Sitges, with another pass through Tarragona. November 2025
Photo of a festival in Montbrió del Camp, Spain with two giant papier mache figures of royalty surrounded by dozens of children wearing hideous monster masks. The amphitheater at Tarragona, Spain with a calm Mediterranean in the background Public art rendering the words "The Invisible Man" 7 time in a vertical columns, each successively fading out more than the last The iglesia alongside the sea at Sitges, Spain in late afternoon autumn glow
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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🧵 110/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Mora d'Ebre stay and a morning in the ruins of Corbera d'Ebre, bombed to rubble by Nazi planes in 1938 with the exception of the church. November 2025.
A meander in Riu Ebre (Rio Ebro in Spanish) north of Mora d'Ebre near Flix Nazi bombing of Corbera d'Ebre in 1938 left the town church standing Stone wall ruins in Corbera d'Ebre A personal memorial to my uncle Samuel of some stones and a flower. He died not far from this spot atop the ruins of Corbera d'Ebre and like many others his remains were never found.
November 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Today I joined ~200 others at the Les Camposines memorial site in the mountains of Catalunya, honoring those who died in the Batalla de l'Ebre in 1938. I heard my uncle's name read as one added to the plaques this year, and in some sense laid him to rest after 87 years, thanks to the Catalunya govt
November 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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🧵 109/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Leaving Vienna, ending a phase of this journey. First was Nomadistan, then retired to Unfundia. Next is Perpetua, with stops in the US then tbd. Retiring a suitcase and need to archive its stickers. International and domestic. Schiele autumn bonus pic
Suitcase stickers from 11 countries: Georgia, Spain, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, Poland, Portugal, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, Croatia. No stickers for Uzbekistan, Turkey, UK, France. Suitcase stickers for US places visited Egon Schiele painting, "Four Trees" 1917 Logo for the "Long Roundabout" journey with circular arrows and never-ending paths
November 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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🧵 108/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

At long last this thread catches up to the present: Vienna again, August - November 2025. 3rd stay in a courtyard-facing flat in Döbling near a beautiful park. Beethoven stayed nearby in 1802, coming to terms with hearing loss. Learning to draw.
View out a window to a verdant courtyard in a Vienna flat. Path in Vertheimstein Park, Döbling district of Vienna Poster of an intense Beethoven at the eponymous museum in Döbling, Vienna
November 7, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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🧵 107/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Back to Denver, with a stop in Clinton Montana. July-August, 2025. Prepping for my current Vienna trip, logo design for the Long Roundabout.
Rock Creek near Clinton, Montana. A blue ribbon trout stream, but too hot for trout to bite this day. The Colorado Rocky Mountains in the haze from a motel balcony in Greenwood Village. Kia Telluride squeezed into a storage space. The Long Roundabout logo. A circular emblem indicating many paths and continual motion.
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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🧵 106/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Bay Area, visiting family and friends in SF, Richmond, Oakland, Albany. June-July 2025.
View of the Golden Gate Bridge in the mist on a sunny day, from The Presidio Late afternoon sun above a very wide spreading oak at Albany Bulb park, East Bay CA Modest storefront in Berkeley, CA with the expression "IF/THEN" in large letters on the glass display window. An Andy Goldsworthy environmental art work "Woodline" in the San Francisco's Presidio: "eucalyptus branches laid out in a sloping, sinuous curve through a standing eucalyptus grove near Lovers’ Lane, the Presidio’s oldest footpath."
November 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Colored brackets?
November 4, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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🧵 105/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Onward to California in my new used Telluride. Overnight at Moore's Old Pine Inn (1882) in Marysvale, Utah. June, 2025.
A Kia Telluride on the side of the road in front of some red(ish) rocks near Marysvae, Utah Interior of a room with cattle skull at Moore's Old Pine Inn, Marysvale, Utah
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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🧵 104/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Back in Denver briefly for granddaughter's HS graduation and joined thousands at No Kings. June, 2025.
A young woman celebrates her high school graduation with her Australian Shepherd, Beatrice A bearded young man draped in an American flag takes a break in searing heat at No Kings, June 2025
November 2, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Paul Klee says Happy Halloween
(detail from Fairy Tale of the Dwarf, 1925)
October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Is this photo real? wtaf? Also, when I type “wtaf” I’m offered these emojis. Who says AI and surveillance are useless?
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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🧵 103/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Through Grand Teton National Park, then attempt at fishing the Wind River in Dubois, Wyoming. May, 2025. That's doo-boyz.
Looking across Jackson Lake at the Grand Teton Mountains A lone deer in a field with red rocks at sunset in Dubois, Wyoming Western themed decoration in a Dubois lodge The Wind River at Dubois, Wyoming.
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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🧵 102/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. May, 2025.
Bison striding alongside a river in Yellowstone National Park Gibbon RIver viewed from on high, Yellowstone National Park A steaming landscape with scorched tree trunks on a cloudy day in Yellowstone National Park The Madison River in Yellowstone National Park, from an accessible bank
October 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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October 26, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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🧵 101/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Stay at Mountain View, Alberta then past Chief Mountain on the way to Glacier National Park in Montana. May, 2025.
The mighty Chief Mountain, Alberta, Canada A river running through Glacier National Park, Montana Statue of a Blackfoot rider on a horse, Babb, Montana Massive iron teepee sculpture from a distance, Babb, Montana
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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🧵 100/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, near Ft. McCloud, Alberta. A World Heritage Site. May, 2025.
Entrance sign at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump World Heritage Site. The head that was smashed was that of a native boy who stood below the cliff. The cliff buffalo were driven over at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Fence and tall grass near Ft. McCloud, Alberta Buffalo at the edge of a display cliff in the interpretive exhibit at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
October 21, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Vienna , Austria
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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A few hundred people, 2 frogs and a few bananas at #NoTyrants in Vienna today

#NoKings either
October 18, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Just back from quick 3 day sidetrip to Albania. Butrint and Gjirokastër were highlights. A stark contrast returning to Vienna from Tirana - chaos to ordentlich.
Amphitheater at Butrint, Albania Stone wall pattern, Butrint. Alternating rows of grey stone and thinner reddish ones. Bas relief at Lion's Gate, Butrint of a lion devouring a bull. Morning mist over Gjirokastër from the Stone Sky Hotel terrace. A stuffed toy sheep is perched on a post in the foreground.
October 16, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Siri, show me a picture of a pompous sonofabitch
October 16, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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🧵 98,99/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

West on the Trans-Canada Highway: Brandon, Manitoba, Swift Current, Saskatchewan and points in between. May 2025.
Decorative illustration sign for Manitoba, as a large postage stamp Landscape painting on the trunk of a truncated tree (all uper branches lopped off. Circular First Nations artwork of dreamcatcher and handprints at Saamis Teepee in Medicine Hat Reminder to "SMILE, HAVE FUN" painted on a paving stone. Always a good idea.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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🧵 96,97/x The Long Roundabout (October 2021 - ?)

Through Virginia in the Iron Range to Voyageurs Nat'l Park and International Falls, MN, home of the world's largest fiberglass Smokey the Bear. May 2025.
Steel statue, "The Sawyer" of a lumber mill worker with a giant blade and a giant mustache, Virginia, Minnesota Beaver pond and forest beyond in Voyageurs National Forest, Minnesota Welcome sign for Lake Kabetogama, Minnesota featuring a giant walleye - the best known fish species of the area. Giant fiberglass Smokey the Bear statue, International Falls, Minnesota. Accompanied by a bear cub...helper? offspring? Unknown.
October 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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It was my great good fortune that @docuracy.co.uk was ready, willing and more than able to take over from me at @whgazetteer last year (reflected in the github commits). Learned there is now a full, non-beta 3.1 release. The many updates and future plans are listed here: github.com/WorldHistori...
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM