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Skriven 2014-03-08 14:51:54 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 10604 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
Ärende: Re: traveling 293
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 06 Mar 14  09:27:00 <=-

 ML>> We got back from our latest adventure yesterday, and she
 ML>> took me to some of her former haunts (a dive bar in Mission
 ML>> Beach, a glider airport in Torrey Pines).
 NB>> Sounds like interesting places...  :)
 ML> The dive bar has gotten somewhat respectable (oysters on the
 ML> half shell, $1.25 each; the $2 burger she remembered is now
 ML> $12 or so but $8 or so on Happy Hour), 

Inflation and longevity can do that... ;)

 ML> the glider airport is
 ML> used mostly for hang gliding and such now. Still interesting.

Sounds like... ;)  Nice that they both still are existing...  :)

 ML>> She drives mostly okay but with certain constraints, such as
 ML>> only using gears 1 to 3 of her 5-speed beemer transmission.
 NB>> Ah... well that might make a bit of a speed constraint
 ML> I figure a beemer can go 70 or 80 in third gear, so there's
 ML> plenty of room for excitement of both good and bad sorts still.

But less likely a chance for a high speeding ticket...  :)   As long,
that is, as she's only using those higher speeds on expressways with
speed limits 65 and up...  ;)
 
 ML> I met her in LA once to go someplace on one of our bigger
 ML> adventures, and she'd forgotten her passport. So rent a
 ML> car at midnight (she'd flown in) and drive 3 hours to
 ML> her stomping grounds and pick the thing up and drive 3
 ML> hours back, and there was just time to drop off the car
 ML> and go to the gate. I discovered that a substantial part
 ML> or the route was on a winding 2-line road with a canyon
 ML> on one side or the other. Autopilot is a very bad thing
 ML> in such situations. Luckily, she was a pretty good driver
 ML> at the time, but age takes its toll.

Now there's a hair-raising adventure to begin the adventure, for sure... 
Are you sure that there wasn't some measure of auto-pilot on those
curves...?  If she drove them regularly enough, she'd probably have
gained a feel for what was coming next...  :)

I noticed in a previous message (maybe a couple of weeks back? I got
behind, and wasn't quite paying attention..) that you'd attached a
Silver Palate recipe, and had a comment wondering about the name... It
triggered for me... I have a cookbook on my shelf called the Silver
Palate Good Times cookbook... apparently a second cookbook from a couple
a of women that run (ran?) a catering/restaurant business in NYC... I'm
sure it was one of my cookbook book club selections, of many years
back...  Meant to answer from that message, but somehow it has slipped
off the horizon into storage... ;)  Dunno quite where the time goes...

ttyl         neb

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