[tcb] Re: Back in the USA!
- From: "Eric Woodall" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 10:05:06 -0500 (CDT)
Oliver is doing great!
Little kids are pretty resilient...
Keeping a pretty low profile for a while until the new kid pops out. Amy
is just terribly uncomfortable right now. I feel sorry for her!
Christopher Dirksen said:
>
> Denis,
> I had a trip to Spain a long time ago, we landed in Madrid via Denmark,
> then we drove to the Costa del Sol via tons of towns (Grenada, Salvia, and
> a few others) finally made it to the beach and I never wanted to leave
> with beer in the vending machines and grass huts with food on the beach.
> Demark was expensive I thought, but I had never seen so many pretty people
> in my life, also they had soccer fields what seemed like every block (I
> love soccer). Good times but your right there's no place like the great
> USA!
> Eric,
> I dig it when you meet up with someone else cruising in there bus. How's
> Oliver doing these day's? We still need to hook up soon, is the wife
> feeling ok? Best of thoughts for your family!
> I wished we could have made the Kar parts tear down and the houston vw
> cruise we spent a week in Gulf shores and had a blast! I would like to get
> the bus out some time, let me know if anyone is up for a short cruise some
> evening, I know it is so hot during the day now.
> peace,
>
> Cajun Eskimo
> > From: coocoo@xxxxxxx> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tcb] Re: Back in
> the USA!> Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 20:41:08 -0500> > What whine? Just
> 'cuz I love crisp bacon? I am not shamed for my love of > Amurica,
> buddy. It's not my fault that they got gravel beaches.> > This was a
> big trip. I had lost count of how many days we were gone. Jan > said
> two weeks. We paid the parking and it was 8 days. We were both >
> surprised.> > A big part of the fun is the way things that you are used
> to at home is just > a little off, a little different. I asked for a
> waffle for breakfast in > Munich. It was right there on the menu, but
> the waitress was just disgusted. > Nobody eats waffles for breakfast,
> they were for dessert at dinner. I showed > her that it was on the menu
> and she pointed out that it was on the DINNER > menu. She just refused
> to serve it. I was in Vienna at 6 AM and I went into > a restaurant for
> breakfast and the woman there was just so happy to see me > and that
> she knew what I wanted, "A big American breakfast", I said OK! She >
> brought a waffle with bacon on it and covered with two eggs and
> broiled. It > was one fused together thing. She was very proud and I
> told her it was > perfect.> > We spent 10 minutes trying to turn on the
> lights in our hotel room on one of > out first nights this time and had
> to call the desk, none of the lights > worked. Well, we found out that
> most of the hotels now require that you put > your room key card in a
> slot by the door to work the lights. That way you > can't leave the
> lights on when you are not there.> > I almost got into a fistfight in
> London once because I had ordered a cup of > coffee and I had been
> served very sweet coffee with cream. I said I just > wanted coffee and
> the man got all pissed off, saying that he had served what > I had
> asked for. Another guy calmed everyone down and explained that I >
> needed to order coffee black. Well, now its coffee "Americano".
> Otherwise > you will get espresso. But the coffee was always excellent
> everywhere I > went. they have public machines now that grind the beans
> and make what ever > kind you want, latte, cappuccino, macchiato, and
> you can see the beans get > ground.> > And here is the bus content; I
> saw not one Splitty or Bay. I saw both in > advertising, but not on the
> road.> > Boy, it's good to be home, but Jeez, it's HOT.> ----- Original
> Message ----- > From: "Julie Maroney" <julie.hey.ho.lets.go@xxxxxxxxx>>
> To: <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:03 AM>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Back in the USA!> > > >I sure hope Denis had enough
> cheese to go along with all that whine!> >> > On 8/12/07, Denis Dodson
> <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:> >>> >>> >> Gravel. There are some municipal
> beaches in the city of Barcelona, but I> >> think they dredge the sand
> up from the seafloor as they do in the Florida> >> Keys and, I think,
> Galveston.> >>> >> Something I just had that you can hardly find in
> Spain; crispy bacon. > >> They> >> have bacon, but they serve it soft.>
> >>> >> Going to the last airport for the trip to actual home. Hmmmm,
> home.> >>> >> ----- Original Message -----> >> From: singlecabboy> >>
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:07 PM> >>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Back in the USA!> >>> >> Welcome back, How were the
> beaches in Spain?> >>> >> Denis Dodson <coocoo@xxxxxxx> wrote:> >>> >>
> We are in Atlanta. I am like a walking dead. Jan got to sit in first >
> >> class> >> but they only had one first class and one steerage, so I
> had to sit up in > >> a> >> crappy seat for 10 hours and my butt hurts.
> Good thing I had a couple of> >> downloaded movies on the computer and
> the first class attendents kept> >> bringing me champagne and desserts
> and fancy cheese because they thought > >> it> >> was sweet to give up
> my seat.> >>> >> Now we are in a Hilton Garden Inn and all the TV
> channels are in ENGLISH,> >> WOW!!!> >>> >> Getting room service of
> something other than Iberian ham and bread. Good> >> bread, realy good
> bread, but I can only eat so much bread. the best thing > >> I> >> ate
> in Spain was like Paella (which all the restaurants serve), but this >
> >> was> >> more saffron soupy with rice and sausages and chicken and
> Big chunks of> >> lobster. Man, it was good. Y'all come on up and I'll
> make a mess of it > >> for> >> you.> >>> >> Good night.> >>> >>> >>
> Paul Smith> >> www.23window.com/thezone> >>> >> T.C.B.> >> H.B.B.> >>>
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