Turkish Rose Pilgrimage

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Yo Michelle,

 

> > Been meeting and interpreting/briefing them for years .. so why

> > don't you come on the next one? ;-P

>

> Yeah- except that I have my hands full with kids (which I love)

 

So bring the little folks too. :-) Turks will spoil the crap out of

them cause they think little rug rats should not be disciplined - they

should be tolerated whilst they are learning to be independent and that

starts at about a week old and goes through life .. ;-p

 

> AND i reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaally dont like to fly!

 

Don't gotta .. take a cruise. Hire on as an aromatherapist or massage

specialist or whatever .. there's all kinds of ways to get free rides on

ships.

 

Moreso for men in their late 40s through early 60s ... if they are

personable, can dance and look half way decent, there are lists they can

get hooked up on to ride free .. they are unpaid escorts for women who

take the cruises. I expect some of y'all might think I'm joking but I

am dead serious ... its been that way for many years.

 

> They deprive you of oxygen and I get a little panicky-

 

Can't comment on that cause I know it can be real .. despite logic, it

can be very real and very scary. The secret is to start drinking good

wine soon as you get on and tell the servers that if you go to sleep,

wake you up and give you a drink.

 

If you're flying on Scandanavian Airlines its sometimes hard to tell the

Danes from the Swedes from the Norwiegans .. but one way is fool proof.

At breakfast, a Dane will bring you a glass of champaign .. a Swede will

ask you if you want a glass of champaign .. if that doesn't happen and

you ask for a glass and the server tries to talk you into not drinking,

that's a Norwiegan .. ;-p

 

> my last experience was not so great- landing in cleveland

 

I admit that landing in Cleveland would scare me too .. ;-p

 

> in a snoestorm and BARELY stopping at the very end of the runway...

> and before we landed we were " in the air " circling for 1/12 hours

> cause our plane was too heavy to land on the open runway- so we had

> to burn off fuel...

 

Fear of flying's normally not fear of dieing .. its fear of helplessness

and falling. Folks sometimes feel they are less helpless when they can

put both feet on the ground .. though the liklihood of dieing in traffic

on the ground is extremely high .. so its not dieing they fear, its sky

diving without a parachute .. ;-)

 

> YIKKES

 

I took off in 7 different airplanes afore I ever landed in one - and the

fact is that I was scared of heights .. I still get a little bit on the

panicky side when I look over the edge of a tall building or even off my

6th floor balcony .. ;-p

 

If I knew I was gonna die in the next ten minutes it would not shake me

a lot .. that comes from training and conditioning. But the idea of

falling over the railing of that balcony scares the dog crap out of me.

 

Y'all keep smiling, Butch http://www.AV-AT.com