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    By suggestion of TigerLilly, who's been doing some traveling of her own lately: a place to talk about one's travel adventures (in the physical world!). Great road trips, the time you got a gig crewing on a yacht, your years in the Peace Corps, the time you walked the Great Wall... You get the idea!

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    TigerLilly
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    How about Lithuanian rap? :) Saw that live at a festival this summer.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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    marye
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    okay
    I am trying to wrap my brain around gypsy-punk-ska. Clearly I have led a sheltered life.
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    reluctant release
    after 3 days we escaped the blockade of Kavadarci thanks to the intervention of 2 mayors, 2 police chiefs and the United Nations and a long long wait while negotiations took place. Eventually the tractors were moved and we were allowed to leave. SHorlty afterwards the growers got a price hike for their grapes and the dispute was settled. So its back in Skopje, away from the wine lake and on to the BEER FESTIVAL. Great fun last night with some fine brews and loud gypsy-punk-ska bands. I do work on these trips too...honest
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    Poor poor Badger
    Breaks my heart to read that sad, distressing post. And a strike! You must feel like you're right at home.********************************** By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean. Mark Twain
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    Mr. Pid
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    quit wineing... Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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    marye
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    my heart BLEEDS for you!
    please be of good courage during this dire adversity...
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    It could be worse
    I am in the city of Kavardaci in the south of the Republic of Macedonia in the Balkans. It is a famous wine area and today the local grape growers started a direct action against the low prices being offered for their grapes this year by the big wine producers. The low prices are because of over production last year, the warehouses are full and the retail prices at rock bottom. The growers have now blockaded all roads in and out of the city with their tractors and are not letting anyone in or out! So here I am, stranded for an indeterminate period in a city full of cheap (and delicious) wine! What a dilemma!!!
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    marye
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    all good things
    to Frankly! I love London, not that I've been there for 30 years.
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    Bon Chance
    Frankly Conversation is always more interesting than recitation, so speak your mind and not someone else's.
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    thanks, badger
    i love to read your travelogues... you write so well and your destinations are interesting and unique. safe travels, sir-caroline
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By suggestion of TigerLilly, who's been doing some traveling of her own lately: a place to talk about one's travel adventures (in the physical world!). Great road trips, the time you got a gig crewing on a yacht, your years in the Peace Corps, the time you walked the Great Wall... You get the idea!
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Submitted by TigerLilly on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 05:56

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for pulling this thread up again! Had forgotten about it! Had an adventure on the plane on the way back from Chicago. Spent the night on a plane, jammed in between a 300 lb Lutheran pastor, on his way to Latvia to care for orphans, and Oleg the Russian mafioso (or my guess from his knuckle tattoos). Since Pastor Do-Gooder took up half my seat, I was sitting all cozy with Oleg the Gangster, who offered to be my new friend and "take very good care of my family." When I complained to a stewardess about only having half a seat, she said to me "But you are in United Economy Plus, and have 5 extra inches leg-room." I am not very tall, and didn't really need these extra inches for my legs, but could have used them better for my a$$. ********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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Submitted by marye on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 10:59

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spammer is now gone, but at least we got a story out of it... I have to say, I am less and less thrilled at the prospect of ever getting on a plane again.
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Submitted by TigerLilly on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 09:13

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that my brother drove from Denver to Chicago with his two dogs AND dad's ashes, for the Memorial picnic. Gotta think about it for a while, but there must be a short story in there-bout Dad going on a last road trip! I must have been delirious that I didn't notice he was there.********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde
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Submitted by Gr8fulTed on Sun, 05/08/2011 - 10:25

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Happy Mother's Day TL ! I was just in Colorado, visiting my son(s) in Denver and in Ft Collins.My younger son and I drove a diesel guzzling Penske out last weekend to Ft C where' he'll start school at CSU next week. Young Willow is now 650 miles away from Gramma and grampa : - (
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Submitted by cosmicbadger on Sun, 09/11/2011 - 14:37

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my quest to listen to Dark Star in every country in the world re-started today. Today I have been in Serbia, Montenegro and wound up here in the city of Shkoder in Albania. Must be the worst roads in Europe. Took 3 hours to drive just 80km. Crazy world. Now. what's in the minibar???
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Submitted by cosmicbadger on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 07:49

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I am staying in quite a nice hotel here in Tashkent...but at the same time as the World Muay Thai (kickboxing) championship is taking place here. The hotel is full of very scary looking wiry, muscly tatooed people.Yesterday evening there was a lot of thumping noises outside my room and I went out to complain. A bunch of kickboxers were practicing in the corridor amidst an overpowering smell of liniment! I wisely retreated to my room without comment. Not a good place to get into an argument right now.
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Submitted by marye on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 17:20

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yes, I can see that a quiet retreat might be best.
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Submitted by gratefaldean on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 04:56

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In Switzerland (I think, could have been Germany, one of those trips that has blurred a bit in my memory) one time when a big racket broke out in the hallway. Like CB, I stuck my head out the door to find out what was happening...and saw a bunch of VERY large guys horsing around. I kind of pipsqueaked out a "Hi," got some American "Hi"s back -- it was one of those Euro American football teams. We all chimed in with where we were from, talked some sports -- most of the guys were quite happy to be talking with a civilian "from home." And then they went back to making a racket in the hallway. Pals or not, I wasn't going to tell them to keep it down... Next morning I took the elevator to the lobby with Lindsay Davenport. Without knowing, I'd apparently checked into the Jock Hotel for the evening...