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There’s a lot of interesting things in the South Pacific. I didn’t see many of them as a 17 years old in the Merchant Maine at the end of W.W.II. I visited Manila (I thought the ceiling painting at the movie was wonderful, until the moon moved!), All the buildings in Singapore (on my 18th birthday) were leveled, a thousand sunken ships were in the harbor, and Calcutta was a mess. But 30 years ago My Sweetie and I took a Freighter Ship Cruise to the South Pacific. On the Island of Pohnpei we saw the fascinating Kepirohi Waterfall, and found the most amazing ruin we have seen anywhere, Nan Madol — — no one knows who did it. On the Island of Turk, where they have outlawed all liquor, the newspaper said, “We are caught between the Coca Cola can and the Coconut tree.” On Saipan we visited Garapan Prison, where Amelia Earhart was imprisoned, and went snorkeling in the lagoon. What you see in an aquarium pales compared to what we saw on the reef at Saipan! What colors! What form! What beauty! And that was just Sweetie in her swim suit.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 03, 2008 12:15 PM
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Oh my, that should be "a 17 year old in the Merchant Marines"= = = Well so I finally made a mistake!!

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 03, 2008 12:27 PM
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Sweetie’s parents, who immigrated from Germany in 1922, a few years before she was born, never wanted her to speak German. They spoke to her in English, but spoke German to each other. Sweetie was surprised when she visited Germany (in 1970), that she actually understood a great deal of what everyone said and could even speak simple sentences herself. Of course her German improved as our trips continued. In her last months, in spite of dementia, and Alzheimer's she could still understand German, a little. Our European travel included visiting about 32 countries. English and hand signals, and a word in another language here and there, is the best I could do. We never had a problem with living, finding, and seeing, while we traveled. The frustration was in wanting more detail concerning an item of interest. We always made sure we gathered brochures in the local language, as the locals could see the pictures, and read the language and help us find our target for the day. Never even once, in any country, do I remember anyone being unhappy that we didn’t speak their language. Of course, maybe that is because I didn’t understand enough to understand their comment!!!

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 07, 2008 9:33 AM
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Now I am famous! RICK was to give a speech at a Travel Show 50 miles from my home, so I made a sign that said “I AM HUMBERD-IAN.” I was waiting for him near the auditorium, a few minutes before his speech was to start. When he saw the sign, with a big smile and a hand shake, he said, “Are you really Jim Humberd?” We chatted a moment, he said he enjoyed my stories posted on his Blog, then I gave him a copy of my latest book. He said he was anxious to read it. No the book is not for sale, I printed copies for friends and relatives, and gave Rick one of the few that was left over. I did run out of friends before I ran out of books, but I did print hundreds, not just ten. The book is a little different from any you have ever seen, with two front covers, and the one-paragraph stories are in alphabetic order. I will give you an address where you can see samples, but remember it is not for sale. At my age, I don’t need the money bad enough to put up with all the problems selling books. http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/004267.shtml

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 09, 2008 6:31 PM
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I don’t remember one Ad that directed us towards a specific site. I was always well read on History and Geography. My First Grade Geography book showed a picture of our 1927 Buick, loaded with 8 members of our family, with boxes tied on the bumper, and running board, driving on Route 30, in Ohio, on our way from Penna. to Indiana. Our European travel in the RV meant that when we got up in the morning we often didn’t know the country where we would sleep that night. Since we have spent 968 nights in about 385 different towns and cities in 27 countries in Europe alone, it is impossible to count the ones we drove through, or visited for a few minutes or a few hours. Our vacation is not a destination, it’s the Journey. Turn here, explore there, relax and enjoy. There are thousands of stories on my web site, each with nouns galore, and I have yet to search for even one place name that was not found on Google. A tiny town, Sucuraj, Yugoslavia, has as many hits on Google, as residents in the town.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 13, 2008 10:51 AM
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Oh my, as I re-read my last post, I find I must make a clarification. We discovered hundreds of wonderful places to visit, as we neared the site, and received brochures from the Travel Office. For example, the Virgin Mary’s last home on Mount Solmissos, above Ephesus; the Metéoro monasteries in Greece; the Last Supper carved on the wall in a salt mine at Wieliczka, Poland; Cinque Terre, Italy; and an unbelievable number of beautiful hilltop towns all over Europe, especially in France and Italy. All are places we had never heard of until we neared that location. So keep alert, some of the greatest sites we have seen, appeared in no brochure. I had read and studied a lot, but not enough. Our friends in various countries asked what we had seen lately, as we knew their country better then they did. I could not begin to list the fascinating places we found, accidentally as we drove, just turning here and there.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 13, 2008 11:40 AM
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Kath, Please give the name of the town, so the rest of us can enjoy the actual location of your story. I have often conducted meetings at Senior Centers, about Travel in Europe. It was not to be a filibuster, but a discussion, and often the most interesting part was in answer to my question, "Where were you or your ancestors born in Europe?" I remember the lady who said, "It was a small town in Denmark, you have never heard of, Horsens." I said, "That sounds familiar." I checked my records and said, "We spent the night of Sep 9, 1985 in Horsens." That capped the story!!

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 9:07 AM
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Kathy, this is what makes talking and writing about travel almost as much fun as the trip. We have been to Essen a half dozen times, our good friend there, got tired of paying rent, so married the landlord. That’s my story anyway. We have parked our RV in that back yard several different years. When Margit and family traveled through the Western US in 1999, in order to get “even,” their two boys insisted on sleeping in their rented RV in our driveway. In Germany, several little towns are combined for government purposes, so the district of Werden/Kettwig/Bredeney has a population of 17,760 inhabitants, and the place name Kettwig gets 34,700 hits on Google. When I traveled in Europe with a lap top in the mid ‘80s, there was no Internet to check, we had to find everything our selves, by just turning here and turning there.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 6:14 PM
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When we visited back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, we found Denmark to be a wonderful place to visit. We enjoyed the country, most people were wonderful, Copenhagen was interesting, and Legoland was a nice place to spent a few hours. But we found it a paradox, the most wonderful, most confusing, the most hateful (some young people) towards the US, and all the other wonderful but confusing things you can imagine. We were told by both Germans and Danes, that when WW II ended, members of the German Military stranded in Norway, were shot by Danes, as they tried to get home. Young people we talked to said they were against US missiles, but knew nothing about the Soviet military. They complained about the US but had no comment about the Soviets. (1979) The Danes complained that in the US, we don’t treat our immigrants as the Danes say we should, but admitted they don’t treat their very few immigrants, very well at all. One man then added, “But this is Denmark, we don't want any immigrants.” On the main street of Copenhagen in 1979, a booth in the middle of a street, had a sign for “Lyndon LaRouche for President of the US.” I asked what they would think if people in the US campaigned for a man to become the head of Denmark’s Government, and they didn’t like that idea at all. When we arrived in Denmark in 1985, the customs man tried to stamp our passport. While he was trying to get the stamp to work we told him about our trip. He said there is plenty of food in Denmark, but the government can’t afford a workable passport stamp. The campground in Horsens was being closed for the season, just as we arrived. The next morning they told us they decided we looked too tired to look for another campground, so they changed their minds and stayed another night, just for us. Such nice people. Oh my, this comment is long, but Denmark is wonderful.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 1:18 PM
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Evans said that in Europe they, - - (e.g., making people pay for the disposal costs of a car when they purchase it) ==== Well I was ahead of Europe. Nearly 75 years ago, in third grade, I said, “If you cut a tree, plant a tree, if you dig a hole fill a hole, when you buy a car deposit $25 to get rid of it when it becomes junk.” I remember the grade and comment so well because the car salesman’s son was going to beat me up because cars were already too expensive at $650 each. When I went for a walk in the “woods” in our part of the country, there were rusted remains of old cars all over the place. If I had collected all those parts of Model T Fords, and more, I could be a rich man by now.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 16, 2008 6:58 PM
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We visited both Berlin and Munich in 1970, and visited each, multiple times since. I would prefer Berlin, if I could see only one.======= At the former Checkpoint Charlie we asked a Berlin Policeman if it was possible for us to “liberate” a piece of the Berlin Wall, somewhere. As he gave us directions to nearby Mühlen Straße, he put his hand over his eyes, as if to say, “If I don’t see you … … .” With his tacit permission, on Sept. 4, 1991 we helped remove the Wall. Displayed along with my cane collection are two ten inch pieces of the wall, along with the hammer that did it. ========The city hall in Munich, Germany, is called the Rathaus, a restaurant in the cellar (keller), is called “Ratskeller.” Along with our dinner, we asked for ice water, then refills. The waitress smiled and returned with a pitcher of water with a chunk of ice. When Emmy used the restroom, she had to pay 20 phennig (5 cents) for the toilet and 10 phennig (2.5 cents) just to wash and dry her hands. She didn’t have her purse with her, but … … . We still have the menu that shows that 28 Deutsch Marks, $7, covered the cost of a complete steak dinner, plus desert for four. That was in 1970, quite a few years ago.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Jan 31, 2008 5:23 PM
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We are not Pollyannish about our travels, but there is really no place where we have visited in 70 countries and Islands that we would not be happy to revisit tomorrow. Of course some are more interesting than others, but when we travel we know it is their home, if we don’t like it we can leave. We have never been mistreated, we have never rushed to get away from anywhere. We are there to learn about their home and way of life, and we try not to tell everyone that our home and our culture is best, even though we are positive that it is. We have been asked a thousand time, what is your favorite country, what is the best place to visit. Our answer, “There is no best, each is unique, there are many differences.”

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Jan 31, 2008 9:13 PM
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As we traveled, we said hundred of times, “Would we like to live here?” Not that we were rich, but since we really never intended to move, we never did give consideration to earning a living. We loved Trondheim, Norway, but that’s too cold. We were surprised at how nice Lubljana, Yugoslavia, was, but said no the the then Communist Government. From our first visit in 1970, and several since, Bern, Switzerland seemed to most beautiful and livable of any place in Europe, but too cold for us. Southern Italy had the climate, and fascinating tourist sights, but not the living conditions. By 1995 we had determined, “All in all, our trips proved ‘It’s a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there,’ is not a cliché, it’s the truth.”

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 01, 2008 12:24 PM
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There’s a lot of interesting things in the South Pacific. I didn’t see many of them as a 17 year old in the Merchant Maines at the end of W.W.II. I visited Manila (I thought the ceiling painting at the movie was wonderful, until the moon moved!), All the buildings in Singapore (on my 18th birthday) were leveled, a thousand sunken ships were in the harbor, and Calcutta was a mess. But 30 years ago My Sweetie and I took a Freighter Ship Cruise to the South Pacific. On the Island of Pohnpei we saw the fascinating Kepirohi Waterfall, and found the most amazing ruin we have seen anywhere, Nan Madol — — no one knows who did it. On the Island of Turk, where they have outlawed all liquor, the newspaper said, “We are caught between the Coca Cola can and the Coconut tree.” On Saipan we visited Garapan Prison, where Amelia Earhart was imprisoned, and went snorkeling in the lagoon. What you see in an aquarium pales compared to what we saw on the reef at Saipan! What colors! What form! What beauty! And that was just Sweetie in her swim suit.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 03, 2008 12:15 PM
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Sweetie’s parents, who immigrated from Germany in 1922, a few years before she was born, never wanted her to speak German. They spoke to her in English, but spoke German to each other. Sweetie was surprised when she visited Germany (in 1970), that she actually understood a great deal of what everyone said and could even speak simple sentences herself. Of course her German improved as our trips continued. In her last months, in spite of dementia, and Alzheimer's she could still understand German, a little. Our European travel included visiting about 32 countries. English and hand signals, and a word in another language here and there, is the best I could do. We never had a problem with living, finding, and seeing, while we traveled. The frustration was in wanting more detail concerning an item of interest. We always made sure we gathered brochures in the local language, as the locals could see the pictures, and read the language and help us find our target for the day. Never even once, in any country, do I remember anyone being unhappy that we didn’t speak their language. Of course, maybe that is because I didn’t understand enough to understand their comment!!!

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 07, 2008 9:33 AM
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Now I am famous! RICK was to give a speech at a Travel Show 50 miles from my home, so I made a sign that said “I AM HUMBERD-IAN.” I was waiting for him near the auditorium, a few minutes before his speech was to start. When he saw the sign, with a big smile and a hand shake, he said, “Are you really Jim Humberd?” We chatted a moment, he said he enjoyed my stories posted on his Blog, then I gave him a copy of my latest book. He said he was anxious to read it. No the book is not for sale, I printed copies for friends and relatives, and gave Rick one of the few that was left over. I did run out of friends before I ran out of books, but I did print hundreds, not just ten. The book is a little different from any you have ever seen, with two front covers, and the one-paragraph stories are in alphabetic order. I will give you an address where you can see samples, but remember it is not for sale. At my age, I don’t need the money bad enough to put up with all the problems selling books. http://www.travel-tidbits.com/tidbits/004267.shtml

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 09, 2008 6:31 PM
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I don’t remember one Ad that directed us towards a specific site. I was always well read on History and Geography. My First Grade Geography book showed a picture of our 1927 Buick, loaded with 8 members of our family, with boxes tied on the bumper, and running board, driving on Route 30, in Ohio, on our way from Penna. to Indiana. Our European travel in the RV meant that when we got up in the morning we often didn’t know the country where we would sleep that night. Since we have spent 968 nights in about 385 different towns and cities in 27 countries in Europe alone, it is impossible to count the ones we drove through, or visited for a few minutes or a few hours. Our vacation is not a destination, it’s the Journey. Turn here, explore there, relax and enjoy. There are thousands of stories on my web site, each with nouns galore, and I have yet to search for even one place name that was not found on Google. A tiny town, Sucuraj, Yugoslavia, has as many hits on Google, as residents in the town.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 13, 2008 10:51 AM
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Oh my, as I re-read my last post, I find I must make a clarification. We discovered hundreds of wonderful places to visit, as we neared the site, and received brochures from the Travel Office. For example, the Virgin Mary’s last home on Mount Solmissos, above Ephesus; the Metéoro monasteries in Greece; the Last Supper carved on the wall in a salt mine at Wieliczka, Poland; Cinque Terre, Italy; and an unbelievable number of beautiful hilltop towns all over Europe, especially in France and Italy. All are places we had never heard of until we neared that location. So keep alert, some of the greatest sites we have seen, appeared in no brochure. I had read and studied a lot, but not enough. Our friends in various countries asked what we had seen lately, as we knew their country better then they did. I could not begin to list the fascinating places we found, accidentally as we drove, just turning here and there.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 13, 2008 11:40 AM
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Kath, Please give the name of the town, so the rest of us can enjoy the actual location of your story. I have often conducted meetings at Senior Centers, about Travel in Europe. It was not to be a filibuster, but a discussion, and often the most interesting part was in answer to my question, "Where were you or your ancestors born in Europe?" I remember the lady who said, "It was a small town in Denmark, you have never heard of, Horsens." I said, "That sounds familiar." I checked my records and said, "We spent the night of Sep 9, 1985 in Horsens." That capped the story!!

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 9:07 AM
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Kathy, this is what makes talking and writing about travel almost as much fun as the trip. We have been to Essen a half dozen times, our good friend there, got tired of paying rent, so married the landlord. That’s my story anyway. We have parked our RV in that back yard several different years. When Margit and family traveled through the Western US in 1999, in order to get “even,” their two boys insisted on sleeping in their rented RV in our driveway. In Germany, several little towns are combined for government purposes, so the district of Werden/Kettwig/Bredeney has a population of 17,760 inhabitants, and the place name Kettwig gets 34,700 hits on Google. When I traveled in Europe with a lap top in the mid ‘80s, there was no Internet to check, we had to find everything our selves, by just turning here and turning there.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 6:14 PM
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Kathy ==== You can never tell what Google is going to do. Today the word Kettwig gets 317,000 Google hits. I know that on my site, the number of Google hits on any day, ranges here and there. ==== WOW, I am honored. My verify word is SEXUAL. Now if I could only remember what that means, in spite of eightyitis.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 17, 2008 8:13 PM
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When we visited back in the ‘70s and early ‘80s, we found Denmark to be a wonderful place to visit. We enjoyed the country, most people were wonderful, Copenhagen was interesting, and Legoland was a nice place to spent a few hours. But we found it a paradox, the most wonderful, most confusing, the most hateful (some young people) towards the US, and all the other wonderful but confusing things you can imagine. We were told by both Germans and Danes, that when WW II ended, members of the German Military stranded in Norway, were shot by Danes, as they tried to get home. Young people we talked to said they were against US missiles, but knew nothing about the Soviet military. They complained about the US but had no comment about the Soviets. (1979) The Danes complained that in the US, we don’t treat our immigrants as the Danes say we should, but admitted they don’t treat their very few immigrants, very well at all. One man then added, “But this is Denmark, we don't want any immigrants.” On the main street of Copenhagen in 1979, a booth in the middle of a street, had a sign for “Lyndon LaRouche for President of the US.” I asked what they would think if people in the US campaigned for a man to become the head of Denmark’s Government, and they didn’t like that idea at all. When we arrived in Denmark in 1985, the customs man tried to stamp our passport. While he was trying to get the stamp to work we told him about our trip. He said there is plenty of food in Denmark, but the government can’t afford a workable passport stamp. The campground in Horsens was being closed for the season, just as we arrived. The next morning they told us they decided we looked too tired to look for another campground, so they changed their minds and stayed another night, just for us. Such nice people. Oh my, this comment is long, but Denmark is wonderful.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 15, 2008 1:18 PM
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Oh Judy, ==== the beauty of travel in Europe is that almost nothing of interest (to my Sweetie and I, at least) has changed for centuries. For example, Rome’s Colosseum was built between 69 and 80 AD; da Vinci finished the “Last Supper” in 1497; an amphitheater was constructed in Nimes, France in 50 AD; Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris was completed in about 1345. So by the time of our last trip to Europe in 1995, about the only thing of interest to us that had changed since our first visit in 1970, was the removal of the Berlin Wall and the Iron Curtain, and the beginning of the restoration of Dresden, Germany. Italy is mountainous to the extreme, with hundreds, if not thousands of tiny villages clambering the mountainsides, some reached on narrow twisty roads, some so isolated we never found an access road, and hundreds more that were marvelous and delightful as we drove past. When you get back from your trip, please post a comment of things of value that have changed in just a couple of years. I guess it depends on what you are looking for. Of course there have been new McDonald’s built in Rome, but who cares! We have been to Italy 8 times, and find it fascinating beyond our expectations.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 17, 2008 9:32 AM
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Oh my, even I, HUMBERD-IAN, think I have posted too many comments on Ricks blog. But I just can’t resist Ellen’s question, even though I know it was directed to Rick. == One Sunday morning, as we sailed from Sweden to Denmark on a Swedish ferryboat, they had a 15 piece live band to entertain the passengers. There was another four or five piece band and a group of young girls singing beautiful familiar hymns. The man (with his wife) at the next table, at breakfast, was the sales manager for the Lego Toy Company. Sweetie had heard of Lego toys, so with his encouragement, we later visited Legoland, the Lego Company’s version of Disneyland, in Billund, Denmark. (1985) It’s a miniature city, somewhat like Madurodam at The Hague, Netherlands, and Swissminiatur, the museum of scale-model buildings found in the Swiss town of Melide. At Legoland they have small versions of the Taj Mahal, Amalienborg Palace in Copenhagen, the Statue of Liberty, Mount Rushmore, the US Capitol building, and many, many more, all built with Lego blocks. It was really an enjoyable few hours.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 18, 2008 11:10 AM
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On June 5, 1989, we drove from Greece, through Serbia on our way to Northern Europe. A few weeks earlier there was a riot near Skopje, Yugoslavia and about 25 people were killed. I had listened to short-wave news broadcasts every day, and had heard of no problems until yesterday when we heard that one person was killed. We must drive through this part of the country (about the only road from Greece to northern Europe), but will make sure we don't have to spend a night. As we drive through the provence of Kosovo, through the cities of Skopje and Pristina, we see more police and Army than we like to see. A couple of weeks from now, in mid June, there is to be a celebration of a war in 1389, 600 years ago, when the Ottoman Turks defeated the Serbs in the famous "Battle of Polje." The funny thing is, as I understand it, the Serbs lost the battle, but are going to have a big celebration. I have done but little research, and have yet to find why the Serbs celebrate a defeat in battle. In 1989 they expected hundreds of thousands of Slavs to be here for the special weekend. The big problem is, this area is the homeland for the Albanian-Yugoslavian people. This is one part of Europe we wanted to visit again, as the people were wonderful, the scenery was beautiful and unexplainable. But that was 1989, the war was 1990 to 1997, and I’m sure it is different now. From what I understand, one of the potential problems with the separation by Kosovo in 2008, is that the location of the ground of the "Battle of Polje” would be under control of non-Serbs. That may well be a major part of the expected “problem.”

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 18, 2008 4:07 PM
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Neda, === Please if you know or can find out, would you please confirm, or correct, my information that the Serbs lost the "Battle of Polje" in 1389. And if so, could you tell why they celebrate a lost battle? When I was there, for one day 20 years ago, it was obvious the Serbs considered themselves the owners of Kosovo, in spite of all the Albanians. Will the Mexicans cause the same problems in the Southwest USA, as the years go on? Woopie, almost, my verify word is "nook" but they left off the next two letters.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 21, 2008 1:18 PM
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Rick, please add a visit to a flea market, a really wonderful, living museum. You will find many items of historical value, and meet a lot of nice people. On August 31, in the countryside near Copenhagen, we found a huge market in a farmer’s field. We were told it is a special market, a once a year event. We also visited a flea market in Copenhagen, one day. We haven’t been to Copenhagen since 1985, but I would suppose is still is not necessary to eat at McDonald’s, there were Burger Kings all over the place.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 23, 2008 11:04 AM
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Oh Rick, I have the solution. Did you ever notice that the Travel Channel shows bare boobies of all sizes, ages, and sagging lengths. Well, maybe that won’t help in Denmark, since they have what is called white skin. Maybe the FCC doesn’t think that black savages count as human. I don’t think I want you to show much of this, but when we were in Denmark in the ‘70s and ‘80s, we found the adults to be wonderful people, but the college aged were even worse than in this country. Their hatred for the US matched their lack of knowledge. They had no knowledge about the Soviets either, but they loved them. We had purchased a large “coffee table” book about the US, that had been printed in Vienna. In Copenhagen we showed the book to young people manning “hate the US” booths on the shopping street, but the young people just could not imagine the photographs were real. They said they had never been told that the US looked anything like that. They could not imagine the beauty of the country, and the photos of happy, healthy citizens. They were sure that the scenes in the very popular, in Denmark, TV program “Dallas,” were not real, but were created in a Government propaganda factory. We told them we had lived in Dallas, and could recognize the sights, and that similar scenes could be filmed in hundreds of cities in the US. They scoffed.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 24, 2008 5:08 PM
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I always told my Sweetie that there’s nothing more beautiful than a beautiful lady, and the less the clothes, the more the beauty. But I don’t really see a need for the obscenities in movies and TV these days. Tell me a story where a word, or words that are considered obscene by most people are the only words that can be used to make that point. How about tone of voice, facial expression, body language, etc. === In my “Writing Gems” (I mailed a printout of some to Rick), one of the best is a true story, “There's good news - there's a lady in the hot tub without her bra. And there's bad news - I need one as much as she does!” And another says of a lady in France, “The young lady would have been considered exceptionally gorgeous, even if she hadn't lost most of her swim suit.” And one more true story, “We rented a pedal-boat for a ride on the Verdon River in France. I pedaled just as hard as I could when I saw all the ladies barefoot from the waist up. But Sweetie did the steering.”

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 25, 2008 9:16 AM
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Oh my, I just can't resist posting this Snippet. == Michelangelo got his hammer, made a few changes, then said, “It’s finished.” But what did he know? Emmy thinks the right hand, and certain other unmentionable parts of Michelangelo’s Statue of David, are still out of proportion to the rest of the body — picky, picky. When I said, “How do you know,” she quickly changed the subject.

Posted by: Jim Humberd - Feb 25, 2008 9:30 AM

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