3 rules in travel: do not rent a motorcycle or motorbike; do not parasail behind cowboys driving boats; do not risk hot air balloons and...
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maladjusted to politically correct universe of cliches, travelled half of known world, read 10th of known major authors, photographed everything, rode bike endlesslyRecent activity
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Tourists killed in balloon crash in the Asia - North-East Asia Branch
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Trip to Tibet from Nepal or Chengdu in the Asia - North-East Asia Branch
I don't know what country you are from, or what you mean by getting the visa "there" but I can tell you that I just got an Indian visa in...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called That post about Bush got me thinking in the Your Choice Branch
This is a 2nd yr political science question usually - meaning, what defines "power" or "power vs. authority" You might ask yourself why...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Kathmandu in the Asia - North-East Asia Branch
Hmmm, I am visiting a friend in Deqin, Yunnan for a while in mid-late October and am not sure when and how long I will be in Tibet - but...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Cheapest/Best place to live when you hit 65 in the Older Travellers Branch
What a bunch of illiterate responses. There could be a branch here teaching users how to write a complete sentence and express a complete...
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Kathmandu in the Asia - North-East Asia Branch
Thanks for the information - just what I wanted to know.
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Canadian universities in the Americas - Canada Branch
I worked on my doctorate at Queen's and taught some there. That was a few decades ago, but it had the highest quality student I ever...
over 2 years ago -
posted a new Thorn Tree thread called Kathmandu in the Asia - North-East Asia Branch
I will leave in a week for about two weeks in the area of Deqin, Yunnan, and then travel on to Lhasa - if permits are again being allowed....
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Gourmet Magazine is no more in the Get Stuffed Branch
Gourmet is a magazine's magazine. I used to advertise a product in it about 15 years ago and it was sooo expensive. But - if you had a...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called We went to the moon in the Like a Sore Thumb Branch
Let's see now - Darwin is all wrong - 911 was a fake & the U.S. Govt arranged it and all the Jews stayed home from work that day - and...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Please list your most cunterrific answers here to annoying immigration in the Your Choice Branch
Cdn customs generally hires people with a poor self-image. I use to cross commercially on a weekly basis and had to sit and listen to them...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called US media and the Olympics in the Your Choice Branch
The olympics are a curse on any city. Many of us were pleased that Toronto never had the opportunity to increase its already massive debt...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called World City Populations in the Your Choice Branch
April fools! This list is goofy. Essen Germany with a real pop. of 579,000 is shown as one of the world's largest cities here with a pop...
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replied to a Thorn Tree thread called Where do I find out.. in the Your Choice Branch
errr, umm, I really hate to mention this, but you see, "protest marches" are a little out of date. Admittedly I was in the front lines and...
over 2 years ago -
replied to a Thorn Tree thread called travel insurance for 'older' canadians.... in the Older Travellers Branch
Just today I bought trav. ins - again - from Visa (the C/C). I am 66 and they charge about $3.00 per day for person w/no health problems....
over 2 years ago







