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Skriven 2014-03-19 23:02:08 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 11013 av MICHAEL LOO (1:123/140)
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-=> Quoting MICHAEL LOO to NANCY BACKUS on 18 Mar 14  08:53:00 <=-

 NB>> One can always walk out in the open air, on sidewalks and such... ;) 
 ML> There is that. In Montreal there is a huge incentive to stay
 ML> away from the outside environment for months at a time. Makes
 ML> one wonder why they bothered to settle the place at all.

No accounting for tastes... ;)
 
 ML>> So why don't they try again?
 NB>> They might... Probably depends on funding, interest, and vision...
 NB>> perhaps not in that order... ;)
 ML> In other words, not in our and our children's lifetime.

Not necessarily...  I might live to see it... might even happen within a
decade or so... and then again, who knows...  Been here for almost 5
decades now, and I've seen a lot of things come and go...  and some come
back...  ;)

 ML>> That's the usual course. But we're talking about a $2000
 ML>> ticket in coach, and I'm not supereager to do that.
 NB>> Base reality interfering with bucket dreams
 ML> That's the way it always is. And then there's the question
 ML> of hotel room costs at the northernmost hotel in the world,
 ML> a Radisson in Longyearbyen.

That too... 

 NB>> Of course, it's her dreams, not yours...  ;)  The price tag would
 NB>> deter me... though the locale is intriguing...
 ML> It was my dream as well, but one that constantly was put
 ML> on the back burner because of cost ineffectiveness.

Ah.  

 ML> Anyhow, I got my Arctic Circle bug out of my system a
 ML> couple years ago in Alaska.

I do remember that.  

 NB>> At one point, we had been kinda dreaming
 NB>> about a multi-stop round the world trip... visit all kinds of friends
 NB>> in all kinds of places, but bald reality in the form of an out-of-reach
 NB>> price tag nipped that in the bud... Richard wasn't quite as
 NB>> enthusiastic as Robert and I...  ;) 
 ML> Perhaps as he was the one who had to face the price tag!

Not so much that, as he just isn't into travelling...  He used to
happily bankroll my share of the genealogy trips I took with his mom,
figured it was win-win-win... made his mom happy, made his wife happy,
and let him stay home and enjoy time alone... ;)  Except for the school
trip he went on (I think as a junior), when his mom was one of the
chaperones, to England and Holland, the only trips I know him to have
taken have been in conjunction with something family... Christmas,
weddings, funerals, visiting grandparents... and to the Pond, which is
pretty much the same thing, and allowed him an even better veg time...
Well, I should modify that a little, there were a few business trips,
including one to Japan, but those weren't taken willingly, but of
necessity... 

 ML> I have it within my resources to do such a journey, once,
 ML> relying on lots of people's hospitality. Instead, I'll
 ML> continue to do 1/3 to 1/2 round the worlds multiple times
 ML> as my finances allow. Interestingly, one such turned out
 ML> to be a real around the world, as Newark-Singapore return
 ML> turned out to be Newark-Singapore over the Atlantic and
 ML> Singapore-Newark over the Pacific, because the winds were
 ML> going consistently and strongly west to east (the tendency
 ML> is this way, but if the winds are not strong, the airline
 ML> just does the round trip thing).
 
Makes sense... 

 ML>> We do generally pretty well, but I had my doubts when she
 ML>> was served lamb when promised beef, and she didn't throw a
 ML>> fit, but she did throw a fit on Sunday night two hours after
 ML>> dinnertime when the roast pork was off at this little
 ML>> Bierstube. She had a burger instead, and that appeased her
 ML>> somewhat.
 NB>> Was that two hours after dinnertime also an indication of having gone
 NB>> without food for extra long...?
 ML> She had refused the plain plane food.

Ah... I figured as much... so rather peckish anyway... ;)

 NB>> That can make folks less amiable, more grumpy, less likely to
 NB>> roll... ;) Good thing there was a burger handy to fill in...  :) 
 NB>> Was the lamb tasty...?
 ML> The lamb was almost muttonlike but with that odd spongy
 ML> texture that all gyro meat seems to, worldwide.

Ah, was it in a gyro, then, perhaps...?

ttyl         neb

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