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Post #22,642
by mhuber
12/28/01 6:20:28 PM
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New Insane travelling companions
My Mom and us kids drove from Panama City, Panama to Maytown, Illinois in a week and a half to catch a wedding once. We hooked up with another mom, with a son and a daughter, for a bit of security in numbers.

All three suffered from a bad case of Disneyland syndrome.

Other mom was joking around with border guards (I don't remember which little bitty dictatorship) and, in jest from her perspective, offered to sell her teenage daughter. Well, they didn't actualy shoot those machine guns when we blew out of there. But they had every right to, we ran a checkpoint during one of the constant little wars of the time. My mom can drive hard when she has to.

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"You don't have to be right - just use bolded upper case" - annon.
Post #22,666
by Ashton
12/28/01 10:39:30 PM
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New Damn.. I'm usually the one who has to remind self -
Don't tease the animals!

I think I'd have been just too wary to take along a small daughter through all that territory, less'n all the kids had AK-47s except then the border crossings would have been even hairier.. and [tilt] Catch 22.


Glad you made it; yer mom be The Woman.. baaad-assed! Hmmm maybe she can help with the paint-balls on the surveillance cameras? or maybe when Ashcroft starts the airport cavity inspections..



Ashton
Post #22,676
by Ric Locke
12/29/01 12:26:02 AM
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New All my stories like that
are about Colombia :-)

To an American, Mexican attitudes toward the police are truly bizarre. I stood at my hotel window one late evening, watching as a pair of Mexico City police cars waited, with red-and-blues flaring, to make a left turn across Insurgentes [south central Mexico City, for those who don't know]. It took them quite a while to manage it -- the southbound traffic didn't give an inch! Did my heart good, it did.

And yet, the simplest stop by the Federales (Pol\ufffdcia Feder\ufffdl des Caminos y Puertas) is a heart-stopper. The guy may just want to pass the time of day, or it may ruin your whole year.

But yes, I could live in Mexico, even though my language skills are laughable. It's sometimes remarkable that I'm able to get along at all, but English is widespread and most people are good-humored about it. Something to keep in mind -- lots of people don't like Mexico, but I don't think anybody actually hates Mexico; possibly the Zapatistas, although the one I met denied it.
Regards,
Ric
     Heading to Chicago for Xmas - (SpiceWare) - (55) - Dec. 18, 2001, 11:11:34 AM EST
         About 30 miles away - (Silverlock) - (46) - Dec. 18, 2001, 11:29:41 AM EST
             Know right where it is - (SpiceWare) - (45) - Dec. 18, 2001, 11:40:27 AM EST
                 Maybe we can meet when I go shopping - (Silverlock) - (44) - Dec. 18, 2001, 11:47:16 AM EST
                     Sounds good to me. - (SpiceWare) - (43) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:04:58 PM EST
                         Monday? Meet for a couple/3 drinks? -NT - (Silverlock) - (42) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:12:23 PM EST
                             Sounds good. - (SpiceWare) - (41) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:43:24 PM EST
                                 What's yer email addie? - (Silverlock) - (40) - Dec. 19, 2001, 10:12:41 AM EST
                                     sounds good - dropped you a note -NT - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 19, 2001, 11:56:20 AM EST
                                     OT, Waay OT: Why do you folks call the main course "entree"? -NT - (CRConrad) - (38) - Dec. 19, 2001, 03:31:42 PM EST
                                         Because that's what it is. - (Silverlock) - (36) - Dec. 19, 2001, 03:35:51 PM EST
                                             In British English too, or just American? - (CRConrad) - (35) - Dec. 19, 2001, 03:58:47 PM EST
                                                 Merriam-Webster - "the main course of a meal in the U.S." - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 19, 2001, 04:21:21 PM EST
                                                 Plus it means I is reefined if'n I use furrin wurds. -NT - (Silverlock) - Dec. 19, 2001, 04:35:52 PM EST
                                                 In .au, Entree = before the main meal - (Meerkat) - Dec. 19, 2001, 05:08:10 PM EST
                                                 Re: In British English too, or just American? - (pwhysall) - (31) - Dec. 19, 2001, 05:27:33 PM EST
                                                     Don't they usually drop the accent, when... - (CRConrad) - (30) - Dec. 20, 2001, 10:39:02 AM EST
                                                         Merkin meal order - (Silverlock) - (18) - Dec. 20, 2001, 12:14:43 PM EST
                                                             Reminds me of an Australian traveller. - (Meerkat) - (17) - Dec. 20, 2001, 05:06:03 PM EST
                                                                 Damn phony-sophisticate philistines. - (CRConrad) - Dec. 20, 2001, 05:20:41 PM EST
                                                                 Yabut.. do they serve on those salads - (Ashton) - (1) - Dec. 20, 2001, 05:20:49 PM EST
                                                                     Depends on the establishment. - (Meerkat) - Dec. 20, 2001, 06:26:43 PM EST
                                                                 Food abroad - (kmself) - (13) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:53:32 PM EST
                                                                     Pickles, beets n Kraut aint veggies? - (boxley) - (12) - Dec. 21, 2001, 12:00:27 AM EST
                                                                         Mexican Nescaf\ufffd is different - (Ashton) - (11) - Dec. 21, 2001, 01:14:41 AM EST
                                                                             Milk in Mexico - (Ric Locke) - (10) - Dec. 26, 2001, 08:38:09 PM EST
                                                                                 Yes: but it is scalded when used in cafe con leche.. - (Ashton) - (9) - Dec. 27, 2001, 03:42:53 PM EST
                                                                                     Ah, yes, part of the recipe - (Ric Locke) - (8) - Dec. 27, 2001, 10:39:34 PM EST
                                                                                         Hey you're right! - (Ashton) - (7) - Dec. 28, 2001, 12:10:13 AM EST
                                                                                             You should go back; you'd be both pleased and appalled - (Ric Locke) - (6) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:56:29 AM EST
                                                                                                 Thanks for the update - (Ashton) - (5) - Dec. 28, 2001, 03:09:38 PM EST
                                                                                                     The Mexico I love is the east coast - (boxley) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 04:49:04 PM EST
                                                                                                         Added to fantasy itinerary or maybe - (Ashton) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:46:02 PM EST
                                                                                                     Insane travelling companions - (mhuber) - (2) - Dec. 28, 2001, 06:20:28 PM EST
                                                                                                         Damn.. I'm usually the one who has to remind self - - (Ashton) - (1) - Dec. 28, 2001, 10:39:30 PM EST
                                                                                                             All my stories like that - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 29, 2001, 12:26:02 AM EST
                                                         Dead right on the d'oeuvres - (Ashton) - (10) - Dec. 20, 2001, 05:08:02 PM EST
                                                             Sorry, but now I just *have* to ask... - (CRConrad) - (1) - Dec. 20, 2001, 06:08:14 PM EST
                                                                 Thought That one almost obvious (?) - (Ashton) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:09:19 PM EST
                                                             Linguistic Americans - (Ric Locke) - (7) - Dec. 20, 2001, 10:39:02 PM EST
                                                                 Cipher (cypher). -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (1) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:21:21 PM EST
                                                                     Bzzt! --wrong. That's the same word. -NT - (Ric Locke) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:25:21 PM EST
                                                                 My guess - (Ashton) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:37:43 PM EST
                                                                 Computronics? (Al-Khwarizmi, "Algorithm") -NT - (CRConrad) - Dec. 24, 2001, 08:30:57 AM EST
                                                                 Or hot-climate food, clothes, and soldiering? -NT - (CRConrad) - (2) - Dec. 24, 2001, 08:32:31 AM EST
                                                                     Comfortable furniture; "sofa", etc. -NT - (Ric Locke) - (1) - Dec. 26, 2001, 08:39:22 PM EST
                                                                         Duh! Ah, isn't that what the whole Ottoman Empire was about? -NT - (CRConrad) - Dec. 27, 2001, 09:29:55 AM EST
                                         in sofla entree also means earlybird - (boxley) - Dec. 19, 2001, 04:38:28 PM EST
         Planned route - (SpiceWare) - (2) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:03:43 PM EST
             nking - will you be home for xmas? -NT - (SpiceWare) - (1) - Dec. 19, 2001, 04:45:33 PM EST
                 Yes and no - (nking) - Dec. 19, 2001, 05:04:33 PM EST
         Doh! - (Yendor) - (2) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:23:41 PM EST
             Oh well, at least I got to see you last time :-) - (SpiceWare) - (1) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:41:56 PM EST
                 Indeed - (Yendor) - Dec. 18, 2001, 12:52:30 PM EST
         Re: Heading to Chicago for Xmas - (mhuber) - (1) - Dec. 19, 2001, 07:08:25 PM EST
             Maybe you can meet up with Silverlock & I for lunch? - (SpiceWare) - Dec. 20, 2001, 10:10:41 AM EST

I never seen a man eat so many chicken wings!
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