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I'll say coming home from the San Diego con last year, although (a) I nodded off a bit on the plane and (b) I wasn't staying up intentionally. But the sunrise from the airplane was beautiful and peaceful... as we roared along, destroying the atmosphere....
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Oh yes. Before I joined my current job in Fall 2004, I had only been on a plane before one time. Amazing, isn't it? Since then, I average about 15 trips a year (flying) for work, plus a vacation somewhere. Most times, it requires a layover, as I often go from the NYC area (where I live) to random places in the midwest and southwest to visit clients.
So, since then, I've experienced just about every stupid thing that could happen. Delays. Cancelled flights. Have to land plane at different airport. Running out of fuel. Circling airport. But the worst was when a plane I was on hit turbulence and dropped for about a full 30 seconds before jumping back up again. Everyone on the plane was panicking, people were saying prayers and it was really scary. The oxygen masks did not fall down, so I guess it wasn't too horrible, but it was damn uncomfortable. I was just listening to my ipod and I put on the theme song from "The Last of the Mohicans", decided I wouldn't be afraid and said a prayer. Then I had to fly home two days later
But I had driving or traveling by car just as much if not worse, so at least it beats that. Trains are the only enjoyable way to travel for me.
APBM,
Have you ever been on a train ride, and if several, what was the best experience doing that?
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I have been on many train rides, mostly taking the commuter rail out to my father's place. And I have gone cross-sountry 3 times, twice to San Diego and once to Seattle. The best experience of the 3 trips was seeing the country, the desert and mountains of the Southwest and the Mountains of the Northwest. There was also the buffalo farm in New York that the train goes by. Equally fascinating to me were the houses along the tracks and dirt roads.
Albany Boise Pittsburg Miami,
Tell us about your best vacation ever, especially what made it the best for you.
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In my teens, we spent a couple of late summer weeks in Vermont. Just the cool and quiet was a fantastic contrast to the noise and humid heatwave going on at home. I spent lots of time just doing the pseudo-hippie thing: going into the woods by myself just to relax and unwind. But the tourist traps were fun, too, especially one glassblower's center where we got to do the tour and look at all the stuff they produced. (I came home with a couple of handmade marbles.)
Oh, and the definitive comic book geek moment for me was looking up Steve Bissette in the local phonebook and finding out how close we were to his house. (But I was too chicken to even consider going over there and introducing myself as a fan.)
Anyone Passing By Montpelier?
Same question (Since my answer isn't terribly exotic or thrilling. )
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I spent a month in France in the 80s. October-November, so the tourist count was down. I just wandered around, with a rail pass but no fixed itinerary, and I was by myself, so everything was at my own pace. I did all the medieval sites I could, my primary interest in history. That was the longest vacation I ever took until I stopped working, in my favourite country (among those I've visited).
All Points but Mont-St-Michel,
If you had to move to another country, which one would you choose?
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Appropriately enough for a reply to our favorite Canadian...Canada. If Canada's even a micro-fracton as pleasant as Michael Moore's films paint it, it'll be a great change of pace from South Florida. And, yes, I'd eventually get used to the cold.
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Well, it would have to be an English speaking country as I am lousy with other languages. I think I would pick the UK. All that history there would suit me.
Albania Peru Botswana Malaysia,
Which historical figure would you have like to have gotten to know personally?
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Mick Jager just as the Stones career was taking off. Obviously
*Or* one of the guys at the Constitutional Convention that wasn't so essential, since I don't want to remove Adams, Franklin, Jefferson, etc. and screw things up. But it'd be fascinating to listen in on that debate. (You'll note I won't go to the French Revolution and risk the Reign of Terror).
APBM,
Which Historical figure seems like a pretty cool person you would want to hang out with for an entire day?
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Abraham Lincoln. He sounds like a warm and intelligent person, plus he was known for telling ribald stories.
APBM,
Which historical figure would you like to have been?
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Benjamin Franklin -- free thinker, inventor, and holder of the best collection of porn in the colonies. He knew how to laugh, have a good time, and see to the heart of an issue. Also, for the era, he enjoyed unusually robust health, lived a good long time, loved a good beer, and was surrounded by adoring fans. One of the few non-mass-murdering-reprobates today to decorate Federal Reserve Accounting Units of Debt.
Arrogant Politicos Bring Misery
Which Nobel ("Peace Prize") Laureate most deserves an eternity of anguish?
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While I don't think anyone really deserves an eternity of anguish, I must say that Henry Kissinger's Nobel Peace Prize always seemed very odd to me.
Apse Portico Baldacchino Mensa
Other than comics, what interest do you have that many people find unusual?
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Eighties cartoons. There wasn't much of a selection of comic books where I grew up in South America, but a shortage of local programming guaranteed a cornucopia of cartoons every afternoon after school. Those that aren't out on DVD, I search for on used VHS.
cleome46
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I got a pretty enthused reaction (on another comics board, oddly) when I mentioned my "master" comprehensive list of women jazz instrumentalists. Actually, I don't really have one. I was just kidding around, and the few I've located online tend to be very, very out of date.
Now I'd really like to compile one. I don't know when I'll get around to it, though. Too many other useless but enjoyable projects are already in the queue.
Allen Postma Bley Mazur
Do you have to dress up for work, or do you get to dress down?
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