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  Kommentar till text 10287 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: culinary adventure 250
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 25 Feb 14  10:50:00 <=-

 ML>> Now she's pushing for Longyearbyen again, meeting in Oslo or
 ML>> someplace. Having lived through Yellowknife in the minus twenties
 ML>> and Montreal in a minus ten with a wind, she's getting adventurous
 NB>> Cold doesn't seem so bad in the abstract after surviving it in
 NB>> reality, eh...?   :)  Especially when it comes with added benefits...
 ML> One thinks that having survived it - then with the next
 ML> Arctic blast, one rethinks everything.

Quite.  But one can probably rebound, having survived once... ;)

 ML> But if we planned ahead, we could maybe do August, where the
 ML> average low temperature is a manageable 2C (35F), partially
 ML> as a result of the 24 hour sun from April to September.

Yeah, that would give some time to warm things up a mite...  :)
 
 ML>> - and counting the times she's going to be able to travel before
 ML>> she gets old and decrepit. I've not had a bucket list, but she is
 ML>> sort of giving me one.
 NB>> Or, one could say that you don't have to make a bucket list, since
 NB>> she's supplying the impetus to go all sorts of places that might
 NB>> otherwise have been put on such a list...  :)
 ML> I enjoy all these places but would equally enjoy other
 ML> places; still no list.

I've never bothered with a list... some places I think would be nice, if
they should happen, but if not, I'll live... ;)
 
 ML>> Well, I probably could do with a steak a day for many days.
 NB>> Dunno as I could... :)   But it would cetainly be one of the better
 NB>> choices for a monodiet, as far as I'm concerned... :)
 ML> We recently left off eating a pound of brisket a day for
 ML> several days, punctuated by very small quantities of pork and
 ML> not much else. I've been two days out from that, in the
 ML> interim eating short ribs, hamburger, and half a dozen
 ML> oysters, and I miss the brisket already.

Another BBQ trip, eh...?  Just was enticed by the odors emanating from a
BBQ place I've never been, just driven by regularly... maybe a place
that we could take you, and you could be a guide of sorts... ;)  Called
Sticky Lips... smells pretty good anyway... :)

 ML>> dusty towns. Chiang Mai's Le Meridien, though rather lovely
 ML>> inside, looks like a Soviet apartment complex (although
 ML>> greenish rather than grayish); on the other hand it's set in
 ML>> a vibrant commercial center where you can get anything you want.
 NB>> Ah.  The benefits are of different sorts...
 ML> I cleverly scheduled us to have equal time in both
 ML> places. If it were myself alone, Chiang Rai would get
 ML> more of my attention.
 
Understood.  :)

 ML>> Yep. Chiang Rai has rural goodnesses; Chiang Mai has
 ML>> urban and less innocent ones. You can get hurt in Chiang
 ML>> Mai if all you are out for is booze and broads. Since I
 ML>> am more interested in beer and beef, I feel pretty safe.
 NB>> Sounds like I'd be pretty safe either place, too, then... Most urban
 NB>> traps hold no interest for me...  :)
 ML> Depends. As with Paris and Rome, they can be spectacular.

Two more places I've never been... but maybe someday...  ;)
 
 ML>> It's pretty good natured. We both realize that we both kind of
 ML>> need each other.
 NB>> True.  :) 
 ML> It's a familiar sort of give and take to some of you.
 ML> Our Latvian friend Eva calls Lilli my "travel wife," which
 ML> somewhat rings true.

Quite. 

ttyl       neb

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