Old friends

I have fond memoriies of Ingrid from bavaria who I met in Chiang Mai with a green tree snake in her hair. She was about to take it to NZ and as a kiwi I said don,t- no snakes execution awaits. Ingrid, if your out there pls reply!!!

And where is Denise that I met at Kells in Seattle in 2004 ?

The ´snake´ story reminds me of a young Brit, I think her name was Naomi, who at the Plain of Jars in northern Laos and back in 2002, purchased one of those little unexploded bomblets at the local market. It had been de-activated (??) or so she had been told, and she was taking it home as a souvenir, thinking it would make a novel ashtray. I pointed out though that it would probably cause a riot at the X-ray machine. Nice young gal, and I don´t expect that she will read this but, if she should .................

Freddy was the character. He would sleep in at every overnight stop then somewhere along the trail later in the morning you could be sure he would breeze by with a promise to sucure beds at the next stop. He wore very loose sweatpants that made him look like a tail-less elephant.

And where is John with whom I hitch hitched all over Ireland in the rain in November, 1970? He lived in Vancouver at that time. And where is Ian from Australia and Greta from Switzerland. We worked together in Kibbutz Shamaron in Northern Israel until I got sick and ended up 13 days in the hospital?

Actually, it could be interesting to have a special forum for ex-co-travelers who are, after some time, looking for each other. Administrator - what do you think? I also have some good memories about few people I met on my journyes.Nowadays, in the time of Internet, they might be "on line" too ??

Great memories that deserve to be imortalized on the web!