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Skriven 2015-10-31 14:25:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: traveling 388
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 10-27-15  12:54 <=-

 >  ML> Lilli tends to drive fast, which is a danger as she's an old
 >  ML> lady with a Beemer. She used to be a young lady with a Beemer,
 >  ML> and old habits die hard - I hope old ladies do likewise.
 > Indeed.  :)
 ML> I do recall the day when I suddenly found us on the wrong side
 ML> of the highway with her fast asleep - luckily it was in Alaska,
 ML> where the other folks take that kind of thing in stride, and
 ML> there aren't that many of them anyway. The correction was easy
 ML> and harmless, but it adds to my treasure chest of sticky
 ML> situations that I've gotten out of and that makes me think
 ML> that maybe I'm riding the probability wave and there are
 ML> innumerable mes that fell by the wayside as it were.

I do think I remember hearing of that incident before... close calls do
indeed make the theories of alternate/branching timelines seem more
likely... :)
 
 > Ah...  Perhaps they were figuring that the less seen the better...? 
 ML> Nobody told me to take off my glasses altogether, so the
 ML> anticipated travails must not have been all that harsh.

Or they were just happily ignoring them, safely sitting in the
backseat... :)
 
 > Nah... I'm sure it was just in deference to your superb navigational
 > skills... ;)  I take it that Ian is an intrepid driver, then....?
 ML> He's fallen himself into the company that uses the GPS even
 ML> when he's going between home and the market. So my navigation
 ML> skills have become irrelevant. As far as intrepid goes, that
 ML> might be a word for it.

I know... that can become a bit loaded... ;)

 ML> P.S. As with others I know, the GPS is used to gauge traffic,
 ML> find speed traps, and so on more than navigation per se.

I can sorta understand that... kinda like I'll get TripTik'ed for a trip
I could do in my sleep, just to find out what kinds of construction
might be lurking... not that it's always all that accurate anyway... ;)
 
 >  ML> Michelin star places sometimes charge four digits and up
 >  ML> (in US dollars) - luckily I'm just transiting.
 > Indeed!  I must say, I have a hard time wrapping my head about that sort
 > of price...  ;)
 ML> I took Lilli to a two-star place once, because it was
 ML> convenient to our hotel and it was crummy outside, and
 ML> kaboom, there went $200 each ... for lunch. On the other
 ML> hand the food was great, the setting beautiful, and the
 ML> service like butter - it made Lilli feel like the aging
 ML> movie star that many people seem to think she is and me
 ML> like some great mogul such that other people (wrongly)
 ML> seem to think me to be.

Ok... for a one-off-ish type of thing, just for the experience... I can
almost wrap my head around that... ;)
 
 >  ML> Then why'd he put the stuff on the bottom? Anyhow, I thought 
 >  ML> it was more like painting a violin with rainbows or something.
 > You'd get to it last...?  ;)   I get your point, distracting and
 > unnecessary... but one could imagine someone thinking it might be a fun
 > thing to do... not a very intelligent person, mind you... but there
 > isn't much that isn't totally unconceivable any more... (G)
 ML> Well, this guy was Michelin-starred. I now think it might
 ML> have been put on the bottom mostly for the aroma  - you
 ML> hear stories about Heston Blumenthal's and Wiley Dufresne's
 ML> minions cavorting through their dining rooms squrting special
 ML> scents in the air depending on what one's eating.

I guess that makes a certain kind of sense... :)  And a bit more detail
to the michelin experience... ;)

 >  > Had you harvested mushrooms earlier in your stay...?   
 >  ML> Yep, and before that we went looking at mushrooms without an
 >  ML> eye to picking (sensible, as we were in a park, and many of
 >  ML> the ones out were Amanitas).
 > Better not to pick in the park, then... ;)  The ones that you did pick,
 ML> Better to know what was what. There were a few edibles that I
 ML> saw there as well. It was a sort of melting pot of mushrooms
 ML> a la New York.

True.. if you know what you are doing, it could be done safely,
probably... ;)

 > were they in Ian's garden..?
 ML> They were on the twisty one-lane road that Ian tends to roar down 
 ML> at top speed on the way to and from Brive (the nearest big city), 
 ML> and how he and Jacquie could ever have spotted them at the rate 
 ML> he goes, I have no idea. They were on a wooded bank beside the
 ML> road; the chanterelles/girolles were by the road half a mile
 ML> down in an area that received its moisture from drainage off a
 ML> cow pasture. I did not attempt to eat these latter raw (though
 ML> there was no particular health reason not to).

If those are known mushroom patches, they wouldn't have needed to
actually spot them, I'd guess... probably just have a sense when they'd
likely find them available... :)

ttyl      neb

... Honey is the souls of a million flowers.

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