Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:52:56 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
"Reggie is Here wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 21:32:20 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III" "Reggie is
Here wrote:

John H. wrote:

Do you reckon we'll be seeing lobsta' boat photos soon? Or does Harry's
boat photo rule apply only to you?

I'd better hurry and get a photo of my boat out here.
You are talking about your imaginary boat that you visited with your
imaginary wife aren't you?

In my imaginary truck burning imaginary gas that cost *real* money!
Can you imagine how much imaginary money would leave your imaginary
wallet if you owned a imaginary Lobster Boat?

Hey my imaginary wife correct me about where our imaginary son is. I
thought he was in one of the country's that ended in ....stan, I
couldn't understand the garbled voice message. He is actually in
Rajasthan, a state in northern India. He did sent me a email note
telling me they were glad to get the hell out of New Delia. They could
not believe that the streets flowed with raw sewage. This was the only
place in all of their travels that they were glad to leave. He could
not believe a city of 15 million had human waste flowing in the streets.
They city has grown so fast, they have not been able to keep up with
the sewage infrastructure.

It's always been that way. I was there in the late '80s on a business
trip.

When your son was in Laos, where did he stay?

I had to re-read a number of his email and here are a few of his
comments about where they went in Laos:

Took the fast boat (5 hr ride) vs the slow boat (2 day ride) up the
Mekong to Luang Phrabang.

Luang Phrabang - He said this was Laos' tourist trap, too expensive and
reminded him of Disney World meets Laos, while he didn't enjoy the city,
he loved a dish he ate there and recommended it to everyone, Laap, and
he was a vegetarian before this trip. They visited Pak Ou Caves, a
great place to improve your karma, all you have to do is place a Buddha
in the cave. (I noticed you have very bad karma over in Chuck's board
so you may want to visit there or pay someone to put a budda in the
cave. . They went to Vang Vieng to spend a week rock climbing and
did some cave tubing and then went down whatever is the main river in
that part of Laos. He said the taxi drivers would rip off the tourist
floating down the river, and charge substantially higher than normal
rate for a ride back to the city. He joking said it cost them almost a
dollar to get back to VV. From here they were recruited to help build
the community center out in the country. They then went to Vientiane,
which had a real french feel to the city. Imported French food on every
street corner. Since he had traveled through France a few years ago, it
really wasn't his cup of tea. They went to Si Pan Don, enjoyed the
view, and beautiful jungles, but could not swim due to some killer
bacteria.

At this point, I think they went back to Thailand to stay at Koh
Phangnan and Khao Sok, but his emails are free flow stream of
conscientiousness written jointly by him and his gf so I am not sure.

The only way I could tell he was leaving Loas is they talked about the
border guards always have their hands out for their indivi8dual border
"tax". Two "blonds" refused to pay the graft until they saw the bus was
going to leave without them.


The tribbles he stayed while treking, were in Thailand, and went by the
name Sgaw Karen. He didn't mention anything about them being furry and
have a fast reproduction rate, so they must be a little different than
the Star Trek variety.