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Daniel Heimpel

Life in the North

By dheimpel | Published: 7 September 2006
netZoo correspondent D. Heimpel just returned from a trip to Israel with the following dispatch. The thin black trunks of charred pine trees hugged the dusty road of the Biryya forest (map), 20 km south of Lebanon. A few weeks before, a rain of Katyusha rockets lit the forest ablaze. Heat, high winds and steep slopes [...]
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Vagabond Vignettes: Icelandic Attributes

By dheimpel | Published: 21 July 2006
by D Heimpel, originally published in Iceland Review. We decided not to stay in hotels. For three nights my friend, Van Arde Pretorious, and I roamed Iceland. We slept when tired, in the car or on the ground, like animals. The Wind “The wind drives you insane,” a waitress with dark eyes once told me. Van Arde and I [...]
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D Heimpel is ‘The Boxer’

By dheimpel | Published: 17 July 2006
The next post in a series from contributor-at-large “Diesel” D. Heimpel finds the author getting his ass kicked in a boxing gym in an Icelandic fishing village but living to write about it. This was originally published in the Iceland Review. UPDATE: Soon after publishing this article, our star got his ass kicked again! ed. [...]
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