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Skriven 2015-01-24 15:04:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: ailments & travel 89
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 01-23-15  03:16 <=-
 NB>> And did you survive the trip unassisted...?
 ML> Did. I even altered my itinerary when it turned out one
 ML> Metro station I'd have to cross to get from the train
 ML> station to the airport was closed due to the now-famous
 ML> incident, so I went to the suburban Virginia Amtrak stop
 ML> which is not handicapped-accessible (I bet foreigners
 ML> get confused when they hear of non-accessible stations,
 ML> so I try to remember not to use that terminology) and

(probably... especially since it's a language shortcut.. it used to take
me up short when my son, then the architect, used that sort of language,
or worse, spoke of ADA parking spots, or ADA entrances...)

 ML> had to hump my stuff down the stairs and off to the
 ML> nearby Metro station, which of course was south of the
 ML> troubles.

So you survived, even with the change in accessibility (multiple
meanings, there)...  ;)

 NB>> Maybe your trip to Singapore will wake up those taste buds... guess
 NB>> your body is just working its way back to some semblance of normal...
 ML> I did okay there and have deemed myself capable of
 ML> handling tap water in the Philippines, where I now
 ML> am, and eating such delicacies as chicken intestines.

That is definitely a good sign... :)  Bodes well for future travels,
too...  ;) 

 ML>> Never had them before - they are 5x as hot as ordinary
 ML>> Habaneros or Scotch bonnets - a new and rather nasty
 ML>> phenomenon. For me, the former royalty at 200000-300000
 ML>> units were the limit (though their rotten fruit taste made
 ML>> them extra unappealing to me).
 NB>> Ah, then, it makes even more sense for the ghosties not to have much
 NB>> appeal to you, especially while things are still working back to
 NB>> normal anyway... :)
 ML> I suppose if I wanted to heat something up, using one
 ML> might add a lot of heat and not that much flavor, so
 ML> it would be preferable to regular Habbies.

Ah.   Apparently the ones Popeyes is using aren't giving heat or flavor
to the winglets... judging from Dale's review...  :)
 
 ML>> Though I'd imagine large quantities of water were needed
 ML>> for that, so in arid places that had short-haired domestic
 ML>> animals they might have had to toil and spin anyway.
 NB>> Or use some other fiber... or import cloth...  ;)
 ML> I just went through an exhibit at the Philippine National
 ML> Museum that showed cloth made of grasses, the inside of
 ML> reeds, tree bark, and maybe other things.

One uses what one has at hand, I suppose... ;) 

ttyl          neb

... Bad restaurant: There's a map to the hospital on back of menu.

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