Re: Moved... but not traveled.

[Theo Fokkema <theo.fokkema@tip.nl>]

At 12:42 30-09-96 -0500, Hugh Messenger wrote:
>
>On Mon, 30 Sep 1996, Mark Longo wrote:
>>      Well, being in America with no money is sorta like being in a
>> knife fight with no knife.  You can survive, but you have to be very
>> good at survival.
>
>Good description.

Whoops... More explanation please... I don't want to dive into this
adventure too naive...
>> It certainly would be an adventure though!

>I can testify to that.  I arrived in the U.S. four years ago, at the tail
>end of a two year trip around a fair portion of the globe, paying my way
>playing harmonica.  I ended up in Alabama, and never quite left.

Why not? How was the trip?

>I'm not sure how much more dangerous it is to do this kind of thing these
>days, as I never did it before.  All I can say is, that as long as you
>exercise the usual amount of common sense, are ready to bail out at the
>*first* sign of trouble, and always have an emergency stash (of money,
>that is, enough to get you back to the airport), you should be OK.

Thanks :)

<scary story about big cities read well and cut>

>I guess the main difference between Theo's dream and mine is that toting
>harmonicas around is a darn site easier than toting a HAMMOND on such a
>road trip.

I will take my harmonicas! (I can even play them!) And, in these modern days
we have stuff like the XM-1, V3 and battery-operated master keyboards :)

>Theo - I'm mailing you some more stuff direct.

I can't wait... :)

Theo


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