Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:flying to boston tomorrow night with the boy to check out a school on friday morning, and then driving up to southern maine to see another friday afternoon. hopefully we'll have time to grab a roll with a cup of chowder in kittery.

which schools?

boston college and bowdoin

I should’ve just said the expensive ones.

it's new england, they're all expensive. Which is surprising since they locked in their land assets like 200 years ago.

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

epilogue wrote:NOLA did not disappoint. Hell of a town. Can't wait to go back.

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I’m in the Atlanta airport in the middle of a couple-hour layover on the way to Minneapolis. It’s going to be below-freezing when I get there

doug rr wrote:

Sloppy Dupree wrote:I’m in the Atlanta airport in the middle of a couple-hour layover on the way to Minneapolis. It’s going to be below-freezing when I get there

do you think you have a 50/50 chance of an emergency landing?

96583UP wrote:are you staying near the vatican ?

i usually stay in piazza del risorgimento

Chris_H_2 wrote:

96583UP wrote:are you staying near the vatican ?

i usually stay in piazza del risorgimento

we're staying at a couple of places (we're doing rome, florence, and then back to rome). the first is just nw of the wedding cake off of via del corso. the second is further north about 4 blocks from piazza del popolo. i have no problems with the buses and trains in rome, so we should be good.

doug rr wrote:

Chris_H_2 wrote:

96583UP wrote:are you staying near the vatican ?

i usually stay in piazza del risorgimento

we're staying at a couple of places (we're doing rome, florence, and then back to rome). the first is just nw of the wedding cake off of via del corso. the second is further north about 4 blocks from piazza del popolo. i have no problems with the buses and trains in rome, so we should be good.

what American fast food spots did you hit while there? be honest