Text 9232, 95 rader
Skriven 2006-12-24 20:17:05 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 9194 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: travels 731
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*** Quoting MICHAEL LOO from a message to CAROL SHENKENBERGER ***


ML> Carol won't be there to protect me. I'll be most of the time
ML> with an older staider crowd anyhow - this is a traditional
ML> (5 years and running; this will be the 4th I've attended)
ML> miles-earning junket with two distinct clienteles - the old
ML> guys (reasonably staid) and the young guys (mostly Asian
ML> ethnic, Asian based, out for a good time, but their idea of
ML> a good time is shaped by President Lee and the no tolerance
ML> for anything rule).

Umm, gee.  No fun then!  Imagine me with you and you'd get in trouble probably
when I went wandering off to something more interesting <g>.

ML> Prostitutes are common. The ones I've seen, though, hang out
ML> in the bars at the Marriott and the Hilton; they are really
ML> smashing, well dressed, probably get regular doctor appointments,
ML> and cost more than my plane ticket. They're looking for youngish
ML> hip white businessmen; there's no way they'll look twice at a
ML> middle-aged Chinese guy who looks as though he's climbed out of
ML> a dumpster (which I'll be when I get out of 20 hours of being
ML> on a plane).

LOL!  I still get a giggle out of the first reaction some in Subic bay had when
I walked into a bar for a beer.  major :blink blink: double-takes.

 ML> currency and the ticket machines (this was years ago,
 ML> no credit cards) and the fact that it was easy to get to
 CS> Umm, they still dont use credit cards excpet maybe Tokyo?  Have never
 CS> seen that here in my little area.  Cash and cash only.

ML> Actually that's less annoying than some machines I've seen,
ML> which are credit and credit only - if you don't have a card,
ML> you have to pay some enormous penalty to get on the train.

Oh the currency ones to buy those are next to them.  Me, I use a human being
when I can.

 ML> All Nippon Lounge) for a couple hours. [Look up Amazing
 CS> 'Star Aliance'.  I saw there in several places.  If I had longer here,
 CS> I'd see  about joining it.  ANA related.

ML> Yeah, ANA is a member. If you fly a lot, a club membership
ML> may be worth it. But as they cost US$300 and up per year,
ML> you have to be in Star-served airports at least, say, ten
ML> times to make it worthwhile. Single-day passes are usually
ML> available for $40 or 50.

Not worth it for me.  I dont fly that often.  Now if i could get credit for
miles traveled by sea....

 CS> Trip back home, we found a lostling trying to get to Sasebo and took
 CS> them with  us.  She was at the airport and was going to wait 6 hours
 CS> for the base bus with her son then hope to get on it (space A stuff,
 ML> Good for you samaritans. When would the next base bus have
 ML> been after that?
 CS> It only runs twice a day.

ML> So if you hadn't come by, there was a chance she'd have to wait,
ML> like, 18 hr for a bus? Lostling indeed.

Naw, 6 hours in her case.  If she'd missed that one though yes, 18 hours to the
one after it.

 CS> I'm not sure what eBags are
 ML> It's a site that sells luggage. I'd never heard of it
 ML> myself until I watched Carol surf.
 CS> Ok.  I get my stuff at local stores.  Never bothered to mail order
 CS> things like  that.

ML> My Carol likes getting packages, I guess. But she also shops
ML> at local stores.

Me too.  I order by mail pretty often here since some things have to be done
that way if you want them at all.  I'd never mail order luggage though.

 ML> When it was new it stood out fine, but now the wheels
 ML> are all scuffed up and it's harder to identify (for me
 ML> with the eyesight thing).
 CS> Try getting some bright scarves from Carol maybe?  We tie stuffed
 CS> animals to  them and that usually generates a grin.

ML> In my favorite (?) transit airports, Chicago, New York,
ML> Philly, and LA, anything even a little interesting is
ML> likely to disappear. Maybe a ratty rag or something might
ML> be just the ticket. My mother once gave me this very girly

Never had a problem, not even the short trip to USA.  This stuff isnt all that
amazing and tied in a knot onto the bag.  None of it looks brand new <g>.

                                       xxcarol

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