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sixgunsaint

Ophelia.....where have you gone?

Apr 12, 2005 03:53

A lot of people I know want to escape. I read about one friend wanting to escape to the green fields of England (and the American South as well, eh Ian?) and I hear another friend pine over Cuba. My sister is planning a trip to Italy, to the Vatican, Rome, though for touristic reasons rather than Catholic, and even my mother will be going to ( Read more... )

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Dr. John rascal55 April 12 2005, 14:57:01 UTC

He's coming to the Winnipeg Folk Festival this year. I'm super excited!

Re: Dr. John sixgunsaint April 14 2005, 04:02:02 UTC

That's cool I didn't even know he was still performing! I wish we had a folk festival. We have a Blues Festival once every year, and hopefully I'll be able to make it out this time (my first!) I guess that's cool enough.

Re: Dr. John sixgunsaint April 14 2005, 21:42:42 UTC

I just found out he's coming to our Blues Festival as well! Now I'm excited! On my birthday, also!

porkchop1313 April 12 2005, 15:11:33 UTC

What about the new cocktail museum in New Orleans? I was just reading an article about it...I think it's currently housed in the medical oddities musuem but is looking for it's own space...

sixgunsaint April 14 2005, 04:05:38 UTC

Ah nice, another reason to go now!!! I didn't even know they had a medical oddities museum. And now that I do, Im still pretty sure I wont visit it :D Especially the way I eat. Cocktail museum though? That sounds neat. There's just something about all those suthen drinks!

bluestarla April 12 2005, 23:45:14 UTC

Ok, that picture just ROCKS!!!!

libragirly1313 April 13 2005, 03:44:47 UTC

I want to go to New Orleans in the worst way! I have no idea when I'll get a chance to go, since I barely get a chance to travel. Nashville, Memphis, Savannah, parts of the Midwest & West, & the Pacific Northwest are also on my list. (I've been up & down most of the East Coast & in CA, AZ, & NM.)

Sadly, I've never had much of a desire to travel internationally. I'm terrified of flying--that has a lot to do with it. The only places I'm really curious about seeing are Cuba & much of South America. (Also, Denmark & Amsterdam.)

sixgunsaint April 15 2005, 05:08:59 UTC

I'm the same way, with the fear of flying. I'm fine months before a trip, but the night before our flight to New Orleans I was petrified. I was already coming to terms with dying! And since the flights were split up (Detroit to Houston, Houston to NO) I kept thinking "Ok, one down, three more to go" when I hit Houston, and with every other airport.

Honestly though, the fear is a sad substitute for traveling and seeing whats out there. Besides, it can easily be altered with a few choice tranqs or a fine sampling of the beers on-flight, but not together for sure.

darkdevotchka April 13 2005, 11:22:00 UTC

Oh, I SO want to go to New Orleans!!!!

sixgunsaint April 14 2005, 04:07:55 UTC

Why? You already live in one of the most sought after tourism spots on earth :D Australia is another place I'd love to go as well. You guys gave birth to m'man St Nick Cave. But New Orleans is my all time number one spot.

darkdevotchka April 19 2005, 14:31:14 UTC

I'm totally with you there on the flying fear. But when I flew to NY it was worth every petrified moment. I usually calm down and zone out after a while, but I h-a-t-e turbulence more than anything, and I'll be the one gripping the arm rest with my eyes closed trying to inhale yoga-style breaths while everyone around me just chills out with a book.

How do you reckon you'd go with a + 20 flight down to this end of the earth?

sixgunsaint April 21 2005, 06:33:39 UTC

That's how I have begun to look on it too. I've flown quite a bit in my life, all mostly when I was younger and the New Orleans trip, which came about 10 years since my last flight. The thing I hate is take off and landing...that terrible stomach wrenching feeling. In the air is fine...until I let my mind wander, and start imagining the only thing between me and the vast emptiness of a night sky God know how high of the ground is a thin sheet of aluminum foil.

But good Lord, Devotchka, that whole gripping armrest/yoga breath thing? I'm all that! I visualize a nice, safe place on the ground...and me crashing into it ;) I can't read till I'm in the air for like 10 minutes. After 10 minutes, I figure we'll be safe until landing. Psychiatric help? Yes please ( ... )

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