It's fascinating to think about how people figured out different ways to cook eggs
Random Thoughts 18: The Year of Fire
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It's fascinating to think about how people figured out different ways to cook eggs
Currently eating a REAL 'MURCAN breakfast that my wonderful hubby cooked for me. Eggs that are actually over EASY, PORK sausage and PORK bacon, hash browns that are actually potatoes.
I am in heaven.
The hotel I am at gave me four, two free drink tickets for the bar and a couple of canned beers of my choice to take to my room.
Did not realize that Panama City was in the central time zone. I was really puzzled for a few minutes when my flight from Charlotte said 4:30 and that my American app showed arrival at 4:03 yesterday.
Did not realize that Panama City was in the central time zone. I was really puzzled for a few minutes when my flight from Charlotte said 4:30 and that my American app showed arrival at 4:03 yesterday.
Ummm...wha? There are hash browns that aren't potatoes?
I'm curious to know what other simple things you missed from home that us non-world travellers wouldn't think about?
PS - Glad you're home safely
Depends on the country. These two were predominately Muslim countries, so we had beef ham and chicken ham; same with bacon and sausages. HAM ham was a non starter. The hash browns at one place we stayed were actually some sort of squash, I think. Big surprise on the first bite! And you can only dream of runny yolks on your fried eggs. Lew argued with the cook at the egg station at one place. He convinced him to flip the eggs, but then the guy wanted to break the yolks to be sure they were cooked. Hard to get your point across when you don't speak Arabic.
Bedding - we've found that they tend to use a comforter inside a sheet "bag" thingy for the sheets & bedspread. It means you have all or nothing. You can't sleep with just a sheet over you. And the sheet/comforter rarely reaches your shoulders. We generally pulled it free from the bottom of the bed so that we could pull it up to cover us.
By Eqyptian law, all tour groups containing Americans in lower Egypt are required to have an armed guard as escort. Kind of took me by surprise at first, but our guard was a real sweetheart. He was fairly tall, and he actually posed the boys up high for us in a few spots so that we could get good pictures. We got to know him fairly well because I was one of the slowest folks in the group and he had to bring up the rear for the 11 of us.
The food is exciting, but by the second week you start craving just ONE juicy hamburger for a normal gastronomic experience. And they eat dinner LATE - like at 8p or so. Then you go straight to bed because you have a 5a wake-up call the next day (so you can beat the heat and the crowds at the monuments & temples & museums you are visiting).
There were mini-bazaars that you had to walk through to get to the entrances of nearly every place we visited. It was difficult to get through them because the vendors would run out in front of you and stick their goods in your face. I used walking sticks to keep my back from collapsing completely, and I got in the habit of sticking them out widely from my body to protect my "personal space".
If you think TSA is bad, you should go through an airport in Egypt or Jordan. They use the xray machines on the carry-on bags, and nearly every bag is flagged for search. And there are TWO times you have to go through that process. Leaving Jordan, we spent 15 minutes on the search of my carry-on because the guy had never seen a CPAP or a mini-nebulizer before, and both got thoroughly swabbed because I apparently look like a crazy airplane bomber. He also had to have someone come over and translate the labels on the pill bottles Lew had in his carry-on. Five feet from where we got our exit passes stamped at the Amman airport in Jordan, we were stopped by an armed guard that wanted proof that our passports were stamped. Redundancy abounded.
I know there are other little things, but those were the ones that stuck out to me.
That was one crazy ball game. Wish we would have stole it, but on to Texas.
I was going to sleep on it but it just can’t wait. The only logical conclusion from that game is that KC and Lew must go back to the Middle East so we can get back to winning.
As an avid fisherman I still like getting up and watching fishing shows like when I was a kid even though I don't even use the same sort of equipment or set ups as most people on these shows.
The amount of equipment and technology and work that goes into ultimately trying to acquire something with the brain size of a BB is kind of incredible.
The amount of equipment and technology and work that goes into ultimately trying to acquire something with the brain size of a BB is kind of incredible.
We got "old fart" fishing licenses last year (the kind you don't have to renew) but never found the time to go fishing. That might be because we haven't bought any poles or tackle. Those all got lost in merging & moving over the past 30 years...
Garage sales. Otherwise Farm &fleet has a big spring sale
Somedays you can have good days at work this weekend was one of those.
Daughter went to the TS concert in the twin cities. She told me that now she wants her money back because she is so sick of her and wants her to disappear.
Wife has on the Grammys and Miley Cyrus may have just had a Janet Jackson moment but the lower half. I’m sure people will rewind and pause it to check.
I do like this time of year when the 'spring fever' stuff starts up.
There was an RV/Camper show this weekend in Madison and then over the next two months there's a big paddlesports one, fishing, etc.
I don't need anything so don't go to any of them but I might pop in the paddle shop soon to get a fix.
This is the item I was talking about - if you travel a lot, it's a great tool. There are various models/manufacturers on Amazon.
I use my bathroom scale to weigh myself with luggage more than I use it to just weigh myself.