Leslie's 2006 Fantasy Flight Log

[LeslieDEN]

I recently wailed about the fact that it looks as if I won't be flying much this year, so Sean suggested I keep a fantasy log. I like the idea! So Frey-like! Here is the first entry in my 2006 fantasy flight log.

Feb. 25, 2006

Today I fantasy-flew from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Barrow, Alaska. I don't have the name of the airline because Flytecomm.com didn't list it. It must be a real no-name. It was brave of me to fantasy-fly on such an airline! What a bad-ass I am!

Flight number: 70
Departure time: 9:06 a.m.
Arrival time: 11:16 a.m.
Aircraft type: DC-6

Wow!!!!! A DC-6! I AM brave! A DC-6 in the winter into Barrow, Alaska, on a no-name airline! But I did arrive safely. (Well, I didn't, but somebody did, and that's what counts in my fantasy-flying world :)).

[aerobat]

Hey, Les,

:woohoo:

Tell us more about that flight! What was your cruising altitude? How was the turb? Did you spot any caribou or polar bears? What were the mountains like? Who else was on the flight with you? What was the temp at Barrow when you stepped out onto that stairway? What did they serve for breakfast? ;)

This could be good...

Barb

[LeslieDEN]

Uh oh. Gig's up. Oprah's here, going all Smoking Gun on my ass. Sean!

[tabbygirl]

Your fantasy flight has me cackling like a fool. OF ALL THINGS: BARROW! I feel numb and frozen just thinking about it.

I'm sure you were with a bush pilot who had just chugged a Jack-and-coffee. And is not instrument-rated. And it was freezing fog. I'm glad you made it.

Angela

[WillFlyToDisney]

What was that airline that Kallie was talking about awhile back - Bearskin or Bear Rug Airlines??? Sounds like the flight LES took.

Okay, Les. Where to next???

[kallieb]

Good memory Kelley....that infamous airline is aptly called Bearskin Airlines. We commonly call it "Scareskin Airlines".

It sounds like the perfect airline for Leslie's trip!

[WillFlyToDisney]

Kallie - I have to say that I think of you on every single flight I take now - every time I hear the words "cross check" over the PA. :lol:

[kallieb]

Hey Kelley, I gotta tell ya....in all my flights since I first heard this (just successfully completed the 6th one I am so PLEASED to say), my ears just pick this up also. And I think.....Hockey...Penalty Box!

Humour is everywhere don't you think, we just have to look for it!!!

Speaking of penalty boxes (sorry Leslie - I'll hijack for just a second), my brother, nephew and I took in a Hockey game upon my last trip back from Montreal. My brother picked up some season tickets from a corporate sponsor and we ended up sitting immediately behind the Penalty Box.

What a profoundly interesting place to sit. Those guys are disgusting (no offense to any hockey players I hope). Between the spitting and bleeding, and f-sharps that were hurled back and forth between the two opposing players who had to sit out their..."two minutes for fighting"...well....I didn't know what was more amusing, the hockey or the penalty box.

This was a farm league game, what a hoot. You know the old saying, I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out, well, that ol' penalty box was well used that night.

My 11 year old nephew at least experienced great joy at experiencing, close hand, the fun of listening to lots of really creative swears, and enough bodily functions (snot rockets, spitting, bleeding etc) to keep him quite amused for the rest of the weekend.

Ahhhh....hockey!!! only true fans can appreciate the nuances of the game!

[WillFlyToDisney]

Kallie - sounds like a great game! It's not really a hockey game until there is blood on the ice.... and smeared against the glas... and the goalies meet in the middle, throw their masks off and duke it out! THAT is entertainment. Other sports pale by comparison. How can someone watch something like GOLF when there is HOCKEY???

:)

[LeslieDEN]

I'm sure you were with a bush pilot who had just chugged a Jack-and-coffee. And is not instrument-rated. And it was freezing fog.
Ha ha! Yes, that's EXACTLY how it was (essentially). Thanks for believing in the emotional truth of my harrowing flight. At first I thought Barb's request for verifiable facts would derail me. But not everyone is a doubting doubter! ;)

Kallie, don't worry about telling hockey stories here. They are perfect! The more blood and snot, the better. Did I mention I was covered in blood and snot myself when I flew to Barrow?

Kelley, I am so tough that I wanted my next flight to be on the most dangerous airline in all the world, China Airlines. But I couldn't find one at Flytecomm, so today I just flew listlessly around the frozen tundra while trying to decide where to go next.

February 26, 2006
Airline: First Air
Departure city: Kugluktuk/Coppermine, Nunavut Territory, Canada
Arrival city: Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada
Departure time: 5:38 p.m.
Arrival time: 3:52 p.m.
Aircraft: ATR-42 (sissy plane)

(Hey, Sean, thanks for the DC-6 reference. I actually [really] just started reading a book about that 1955 DC-6 bombing, and it has lots of pictures [Mainliner Denver: The Bombing of Flight 629 -- a guy blew up the plane to collect insurance money on his mom!]. That was my first introduction to the plane so I was thrilled to get to fantasy-ride one to Barrow!)

[aerobat]

At first I thought Barb's request for verifiable facts would derail me.

Verifiable facts? :lol: I was actually hoping for some in-depth reporting straight outa the imagination, such as whale blubber and boiled coffee grounds for breakfast, and the cabin temperature at minus ten with snow flurries inside, and the glistening 12,000' peaks so close you could touch them, and the turb beyond belief, and the FAs reading "The Cremation of Sam McGee" to calm people down, and a polar bear skin flapping loosely over the cockpit entrance!:tongue:

I think tabbygirl got the rest of it right....except that the Jack is eight inches from the throttles...

Sorry to have scared you. Oprah's not coming until you turn it into a novel.;)

Barb

[tabbygirl]

And that's Yukon Jack, not Jack Daniels.

Gawd - Robert Service. I remember my 6th grade teacher reading some of those poems to us. Gruesome yet hilarious, at least if you're 12. I think I need to read them again.

Angela

[aerobat]

Oh yeah, Yukon Jack! The baaaad stuff!

http://www.webtender.com/db/ingred/62 :)

read the list of names of drinks in which it is a key ingredient!! :lol:


Among Robert Service ballads, here's a favorite of mine:

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=The%20Spell%20of%20the%20Yuko n%20and%20Other%20Verses&Poem=2



now, off ta see if the local liquor store has some o' that bad stuff...


among the comments on this poem:


Wed Nov 14 20:52:38 2001
My friend recites this poem after a couple of Yukon Jacks, and just takes my breath away. I, too, visited Alaska in the early '70's , vowed to return. I did, again and again, and 11 years ago moved from Florida to Sitka, Alaska. I've never been sorry.

[WillFlyToDisney]

Leslie must not have internet access there in Yellowknife. Either that or she has decided to stay awhile.

Where to next??

[LeslieDEN]

I was actually hoping for some in-depth reporting straight outa the imagination
That's what I was even more afraid of! :lol:

You guys are too funny. I don't have nearly the imagination -- or knowledge of creepy northern whiskeys and poets -- to come up with anything like that.

Today I smuggled myself to Bangor, Maine.

Feb. 27, 2006
Airline: Business Airfreight
Flight number: 951
Departure city: Presque Isle, ME
Arrival city: Bangor, ME
Departure time: 6:05 p.m.
Arrival time: 6:46 p.m.
Aircraft type: Embraer Bandeirante EMB 110/111

[Rebecca]

Good thing it's a short flight, since you're squooshed up in an airfreight box.

Imagine the scene at Bangor Office Supplies when the shipping guy opens the box and you pop out with whiskey breath, reciting The Ballad of the Ice-Worm Cocktail.

You'll need a relaxing change of scene after this ... Paris for lunch?

:magic:

[tabbygirl]

It's only right that Yukon Jack and Robert Service come together...Dangerous Dan McGrew was their bastard spawn.

It's NASTY yet deceptively tasty until your brain explodes. Last time I had any was in 1983 during a Kinks concert. Which is a bit of a blur for some reason.

I'm surprised none of those drinks was called a Plane Crash. Because that's how your head feels later on.

But it might be just the think to thaw poor Leslie out after 45 minutes in a cargo hold. Did you take oxygen with you? Or on an Embraer, is it too small to have a cargo hold? Did they just shove you up against the bulkhead?

Is it wrong that even a fantasy about being smuggled in a box is making me want to fly somewhere??

Angela

[aerobat]

The Ice-Worm Cocktail....hahahaha Rebecca, thanks!!!:cheers: :rotflmao:

*********
Then deeply in a drawer he sought, and there he found a jar,
The which with due and proper pride he put upon the bar;
And in it, wreathed in queasy rings, or rolled into a ball,
A score of grey and greasy things, were drowned in alcohol.
Their bellies were a bilious blue, their eyes a bulbous red;
Their back were grey, and gross were they, and hideous of head.

****


Indeed, Leslie should be rewarded for her astonishing bad-assed deed of derring-do by being handed one of these to toss off:

http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=12

No Cheechako is she. :tiphat:

[LeslieDEN]

Ooooooooh, perfect!

How come I never got to read that guy in school? How come y'all know him so well? What does it say about me if I liked the poem? :blush:

He's handsome too. http://www.artdamage.com/service.htm

Tabby, thanks for your concern, but I was fine. As a long-time bad-ass, I've endured worse. Not the first time I found myself being transported in a box.

Rebecca, I would love to go to Paris but Flytecomm shows only U.S. and Canadian destinations. Plus I killed a man there.

Today I couldn't find any flights that looked sufficiently dangerous so I just hung around Bangor wondering if I should find a riskier flight tracker.

[LeslieDEN]

Okay, that is officially the first piece of poetry ever to make me throw up a little.

Woo hoo! Vomit in my Fantasy Flight Log! Exactly what it needed! Thanks, Sean! Thanks, Barb! :thumbsup:

[LeslieDEN]

That's why they make air sickness bags.

Real men fly in their own vomit. Didn't you read my hero's memoir?

[aerobat]

here's one that fits right in with blood and snot and vomit. :lol:

http://www.artdamage.com/service/misc/bessie.htm

[LeslieDEN]

Fantastic! See, this is what poems should be. I would like poetry if all poems were like that.

Thanks, Barb. K, I got blood, snot, vomit, boils, and redemptive humiliation so far in my Fantasy Flight Log. It's been a good bad-ass day.

(It really is fun to read that poem out loud.)

[Rebecca]

Sorry, I've been reading more of those poems, this just happened, couldn't help it. :angel:

He strode up to the boarding gate, all spit and fire and vim
This time he’d do it—Yes! he swore, the fear would bow to him.
Tho’ handing o’er his pass he felt a small tremble within
Quickly rallied he his heart, and gathered wits … but then
The threading, weakly thud grew strong, and this he also knew
For countless times it beat him back, his flying days but through.

Yet sixty posts now counted he, and tools in hand he had
Camera, Letter, goody bag, and yellow-lined note pad.
With Letter firmly grasped in hand he hailed the lady fair
Who stood at the portals of his goal, his path into the air.
And she in turn brought forth a man with stripes upon his sleeve
Whose handshake, friendly smile and talk our hero’s fears relieved.

Now situated he himself upon the numbered seat
And looked about with calmness born of breaths both long and deep.
“I’m here at last, and here I’ll stay, to see this journey through.”
Then, liftoff, climb and cruise into the sky of soaring blue.
He wrote upon his yellow pad, to share real-time back home
For the lovely crew at TF, he knew, would read the longest tome
And cheer his flight, and share the joy he felt today at last
In flying without fear, and in his joy quite unsurpassed.

:cheers:Where to next, Leslie?

[tabbygirl]

Rebecca, you're killing me! HAHAHAHA!!!!!

Leslie, the only reason I can think of for why we were treated to Robert Service is that I grew up in Seattle and I think we feel emotionally closer to Alaska and Oregon than any other states! We think WE are bad-asses. Yeah. You heard me.

Angela

[tabbygirl]

HAHAHA!! I do commute on the goofy highway on stilts. And yeah, houses on that hillside have SLID, SLIDED, SLUD...whatevah, after the rains of Armageddon, which we have occasionally.

At least it was finally retrofitted to withstand The Big One (earthquake) when we have it. It took a 6.8 quake in 2001 to get that going.

All in all, I guess I have more chance of Seattle killing me than of experiencing a plane crash.

Angela

[tabbygirl]

I was surprised to have a whole week of beautiful days last time I was there.
Shhhhh....it's a secret.

For me it's not the cold or the rain but the short short short winter days. Get up in the dark, get off work in the dark.

HIJACKING THE THREAD! Not cool, Angela.

Where in the world is Leslie?

[aerobat]

...prolly off reading Robert Service and sipping Yukon Jack...:)

I grew up in St. Louis and discovered Service when we had to memorize a poem, and another kid in seventh grade memorized Sam McGee, and I was so very impressed!! I had gone for "The Skater of Ghost Lake" (William Rose Benet) which is pretty haunting in its own right.

So I discovered what Service I could find in benighted St. Louis--not much more, really. In my ten years in Seattle, I never really put forth the effort to find his or other poetry, being distracted by many things (especially the mountains; I hiked the Cascade Crest Trail many times--all of it at once the first time and in segments thereafter.

I rediscovered Service when I spent a summer in Alaska, and bought his collected works in Anchorage (still have the volume). Wonderful stuff and a great inspiration to me as a songwriter. The world is so fortunate that he passed through. :thumbsup:

[LeslieDEN]

Rebecca, ooooh, that is good! You are the next Robert Service! It's all a little bewildering to me because I really like that guy's style, and I guess you were pretty much parodying it, but, well, you know ... Feels goofy to like both the original and the parody so much.

Since I couldn't find any dangerous flights, I decided to fly to a dangerous destination -- Seattle! Where I am at risk for weather-related suicide plus all that other stuff.

March 1, 2006
Airline: United
Flight number: 407
Departure city: Denver, CO
Departure time: 5:49 p.m.
Arrival city: Seattle, WA
Arrival time: 7:04 p.m.
Aircraft type: Boeing 757-200
Amount of money United lost flying me: 75 cents

After taking in the flight museum (neat!), I wandered the dark, cold, rainy streets contemplating my mortality and using a lot of bad words. Finally I was home ... a bad-ass in a bad-ass city.

<Tabby, it's not a secret! When I was at the hairdresser a while back, one of the stylists said she liked Seattle but didn't think she could live there because of all the rain; the other stylist said, "I think rain in Seattle is a lie, like snow in Denver is a lie." Know what I mean? It does snow in Denver, but it's hardly the pounding winter blizzard it's made out to be (it was 70 degrees here yesterday); and apparently Seattle isn't the constant miserable rainy slog it's made out to be either.>

[aerobat]

was really bad-ass in the bad old days...

we'd walk the alleys of the U-District and the trails of Ravenna Park in the wee hours, swaddled in long coats a-sparkle with drizzle, swaddled in winter fog, once in a great while meeting kindred souls doing the same...and we were so bad-ass that no evil dared befall us, and even the trolls who lived under the bridges kept to themselves.

and there was the old Public Market which had labyrinths beneath labyrinths that would lead you down into other dimensions where vampires and sorceresses kept quaint little shops that sold Eye of Newt and Fillet of a Fenny Snake and other charms, and candle shops where one could find gen-u-wine books of spells and incantations, and potions, amulets...and finding our way back to the twilight we were greeted with mountains of fish and great aroma of fish and piles of king crab legs and shops with hundreds of home-canned Greek olives and barrels of pasta and gouda cheeses strung up like Christmas, and none of it was for the tourists...all was for the bad-ass locals who were always there, some playing the concertina or the flamenco guitar or whispering in dark corners...some of them lived in the moldering one-room apartments in the back that faced the water, and there was the Goodwill in there that had dresses and hats from some other millennium, and tapestries from Iran and pelts of wolf and fox and mink, as though the voyageurs had just been to the trading post and paddled away again.

It was splendid, and I loved the rain, which just went with it all.

Rebecca!! Your poem is inspired!! Thank you!

Barb

[tabbygirl]

It does snow in Denver, but it's hardly the pounding winter blizzard it's made out to be (it was 70 degrees here yesterday); and apparently Seattle isn't the constant miserable rainy slog it's made out to be either.>
It's true. It doesn't rain all that much compared to lots of other cities without that reputation...but it IS overcast a lot. Sometimes you feel like you live underwater - that murky light can get old.

I have to tell you, Leslie, if you had been here yesterday you would have thought it was beautiful. It's been windy and yesterday we had a very high cloud cover but you could look west to the Olympics and east to the Cascades and see the mountains so clearly it was breathtaking. You know how you look west from Denver to the Rockies - think of having Rockies on the other side as well. Of course we usually can't see them due to CLOUDS. But when the mountains - especially Rainier - are "out" as we say, it's astonishingly beautiful here.

Then last night we had a windstorm. And it rained.

Barb, I lived on 55th & University in the early '80s. I bet we crossed paths in Ravenna Park or on the Ave some evenings! I would not go there in the dark of night anymore, though. There are so many lost and drifting kids these days, and those who prey on them...it's extremely sad.

The Market still has its good points but yeah, a lot of it gets real touristy. I try to avoid it in the summer - it's just too crazy. There are still some funky shops in the lower floors and Tenzing Momo is still there (I think that's what you were remembering, with books of spells, etc. And herbal medicines and such).

[aerobat]

There are still some funky shops in the lower floors and Tenzing Momo is still there (I think that's what you were remembering, with books of spells, etc. And herbal medicines and such).


I am glad to hear that Tenzing Momo is thriving, and I love that place!! But my real nostalgia is for the mid-sixties when I was at UW, when those shops were really, really funky and the stuff they sold made you think of dark alleys in Transylvania or New Orleans :eek: ;) . And the tourists, if they ever stumbled upon them, would mostly flee in horror...:lol:

[Rebecca]

Why am I thinking "Bad-Ass Flightfest Seattle: The Search for the Seventies?"

Hey, I could DRIVE to that one! :sly:

After Leslie gets back, of course.

Down below the Starbucks, you know, on a rainy, drumbeat day
Runs the Underground Tour of days of yore when the funky folk held sway ...

Sorry again! That guy is infectious.

:cheers:

[tabbygirl]

Rebecca, the original Starbucks is in fact on Pike Place, across from the market proper...

All this talk inspired me to head down to the bowels of the market about an hour ago - I work on 6th & Pike - and I stumbled into a bead shop. No, not LITERALLY. Sheesh. I won't bore everyone with details but it was entirely serendipitous and a psychological boost of large proportions. So thanks, Barb!

Sean, you KNOW you can get a fish thrown over your head. Let me be your guide...(it really is pretty cool to see guys tossing 30-lb salmon around.)

Angela

[Rebecca]

:blush:Oh, the Pike Place type of fish throw! I thought Sean meant "over his head" as in "on his head." I was going to volunteer!

[LeslieDEN]

Today I visited Pike Place, where I bought a big bouquet of flowers, some Soviet propaganda art, and a bag of roasted cashews. I also got into a bad-ass knife fight.

March 2, 2006
Airline: Airlift Northwest
Departure location: Pike Place Market
Departure time: 2:00 p.m
Arrival location: University of Washington Medical Center
Arrival time: 2:34 p.m.
Aircraft type: Augusta A109/Mark II helicopter

[aerobat]

Bad-Ass Flightfest in Seattle...in mid-January, of course. The greyer and foggier, the better. Ooooh, count me in! :thumbsup:

Leslie, whatever were you fighting about? :eek: Did you win? Get well soon!! It's nice that you already have the flowers...:)

Rebecca, that poem has enormous promise...especially if you can work 'cornobble' into it...:lol:

[tabbygirl]

Because I SAW a copter flying o so very low over the waterfront yesterday! Actually I think it was a Coast Guard one but I'll pretend it was rescuing Leslie.

There WAS a lot of buzz among the people I saw at the Market yesterday - I must have just missed the fight.

Les, I hope Intensive Care has a view of the mountains today - it's another good one (though clouding up fast OF COURSE).

Ang

[Rebecca]

You know, that font on Leslie's message is pretty small … do you think it’s a clue that she needs us? We better scramble!

The dog barks at midnight, seven thugs appraise Dahlia. Sean, forego ratfink, Ocean Seven Ida. Angela, new trees need water. Barb, wings approach Delta invert six. Pick up goods at oh nine hundred code Sierra translate. Seattle rhododendrons bloom in April. Comrade Cashew, several jackals howl.

Hang in there, kiddo, we’re on our way!


:cool:

[tabbygirl]

I am clutching my sides!!

Les, don't bite the cyanide capsule - we're coming!

[LeslieDEN]

whatever were you fighting about?

Now that I'm remembering, it might not have been a knife fight. It might have been I fell down a fire escape. Which is just as bad-ass.

lima bean lima bean

[Rebecca]

lima bean lima bean
Folks, we've got double lima beans here. I have no clue!!! What does it mean???
:shocked:

[aerobat]

oh, my...

The drift of this thread, secret code and all, is transporting me right back to 1966...when Seattle was so bad-ass that only this song

http://bobdylan.com/songs/desolation.html

...seems true to the milieu.

How ever did we live through it?
The immaculately frightful rhododendrons have been eaten. :barf:
Only two lima beans remain
On the northbound train
in the pouring rain...:)

**

Les, have you thought of smuggling yourself aboard the Space Shuttle? :tongue:

[aerobat]

Sean, back in those bad-ass old days, getting totally lost was a part of being totally bad-ass. Not to worry; things are better now. :tongue:

Barb (lost too, but faking it) :lol:

[Rebecca]

Oh, Barb, I hate to tell you ... but Dylan has sold out to Starbucks. Now that's desolation! :cry:Please, please say you'll still come to Seattle!!!!

http://www.commercialalert.org/news-archive.php?article_id=750&month=06&year=2005&day=29th

What about Leslie …??? Need more clues …. Lima, Peru? Lima as in kilo, lima, mike? Beans … Mexican food? And it’s repeated … that could mean “urgent!!!”

[aerobat]

Oh, I'll come to Seattle on most any excuse, as it's still one of my favorite places in the galaxy, and I have some good friends there, too...and other good friends in Vancouver that I'd pop up and visit.

I have never set foot in a Starbucks! Now, I never will. :fuming: However inscrutable Dylan may be, they are utterly scrutable :lol: and I can find excellent coffee elsewhere.

Bad-Ass Frightfest, mid-January 2007? Or Halloween 2006?? Meet at the Pike Street Market at midnight, dressed as vampire bats?

:lol:

[LeslieDEN]

Barb, smuggling myself onto the space shuttle is a great idea, but Flytecomm doesn't track their flights, and the NASA site is too confusing.

Rebecca, I confess I just made lima bean up (although there is a funny spy-vs-spy personal history to it that I'll have to tell if we ever meet in person).

Don't worry, anybody! I am just fine, all sewed up and sipping a vanilla latte from a coffee corporation whose identity I dare not disclose.

[aerobat]

...owned by a friend of mine (Martin Diedrich)!! Check out the Denver locations, Les, when you are well enough to fly home...:)





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[kallieb]

This is by far a most engagingly creative and imaginative thread. It was mentioned elsewhere that folks with (or had) a FoF tend to possess a finely tuned imagination. I believe it for certain after enjoying this witty banter.

You Seattle/Northwest folks sure are a quirky bunch! :D

Les, thanks for the explanation on Lima Beans, I also was quite perplexed as to what it's meaning meant. For it to just *be* is superb!

Barb - I have to ask, what makes the Diedrich coffeehouses stand out. Another level of quirkiness maybe??? Or just a d@mn good cup of coffee without all the lah-dee-dah that comes with some coffee houses now.

Thanks all

[aerobat]

Hi, Kallie,

I guess it's because I have known Martin since he was a kid (late seventies). He grew up in Guatemala, where his German family owns a coffee plantation. He has always been interested in the Maya people, both ancient and modern, and became good friends with many local Highland Maya. He came here to Austin to study Maya archaeology, and stayed for a couple of years, but was unable to continue with his academic career because he had to return to Guatemala/California to take over the family coffee business. He has made it into the extraordinary success that it now is, without forgetting his roots and those of the Mayas who grow his coffee beans. And the products are superb! :thumbsup:

[WillFlyToDisney]

But the real question is.... does he bear any resemblance to Juan Valdez??

Barb - tell him that us folks in the South drink coffee too - he needs to expand the biz!

[Rebecca]

What a great coffee story! We need Mayan coffee up here, too.

So glad Leslie is safe. I must know the lima bean story! I had totally forgotten the Spy vs. Spy guys but I LOVED them when I was an avid MAD Magazine reader.

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And let not the Bad-Ass Flightfest Seattle become a relic in the archives ... I figure I've earned the right to drive to it because I've gone on Cessna flights three times now and will undoubtedly have more before the Fest. Is driving to a Flight Fest allowed?
:sunshine:

[aerobat]

I think it would be oh so exquisitely Bad-Ass for you and Craig to hop over the Cascades in the new Escapade!!!;)

The baddest the rest of us could do would be to fly in on on the Frontier Snowy-Owl-of-Death, or maybe on Alaska Air.:eek: :lol:
In any case, it's a grand idea.

[tabbygirl]

But my real nostalgia is for the mid-sixties when I was at UW, when those shops were really, really funky and the stuff they sold made you think of dark alleys in Transylvania or New Orleans :eek: ;) . And the tourists, if they ever stumbled upon them, would mostly flee in horror...:lol:
Ah, Barb, you were just a bit ahead of me; I started at the U in 1971. Things were still pretty funky in those days.

I miss the old Ave, too. Remember the Hasty Tasty? The Last Exit on Brooklyn (that survived until fairly recently)? Hippie Hill? MA BELL'S! home of the best burgers EVER, ANYWHERE.

Patchouli? Oh, yes.

Geez, I'm old...

And I just entertained my coworkers with a rousing SNORT!! over:

The immaculately frightful rhododendrons have been eaten. :barf:
Only two lima beans remain
On the northbound train
in the pouring rain...:)

And....
Oh, Barb, I hate to tell you ... but Dylan has sold out to Starbucks.
The man sold out to VICTORIA'S SECRET, y'all. Didn't you see the (thankfully) short-lived commercial where his crusty, craggy (yet I find him inexplicably sexy - don't you laugh!!) self among all the beautiful young girls in their fabulous lingerie? It was creepy as hell.

And I have to mention that we have a new coffee chain in town - JUST what we needed - called Juan Valdez. It does have a Central American bent, vs. the so-called Italian of every other shop in town. Decent coffee. Better than CHARbucks, which will apparently never learn to quit over-roasting them beans.

Are we really going to have a flightfest where I'll have to take a BUS? DAMMMMIT. I need to fly somewhere. I NEED TO.

Angela

[Rebecca]

The man sold out to VICTORIA'S SECRET, y'all. Didn't you see the (thankfully) short-lived commercial where his crusty, craggy (yet I find him inexplicably sexy - don't you laugh!!) self among all the beautiful young girls in their fabulous lingerie? It was creepy as hell.Man, right there is all the justification I need not to watch TV.

Now, before I get all Service and start trying to match Barb's daring in putting Escapade and Cascades in the same sentence, YES, we will bide our time and submit the Bad-Ass Flight Fest Seattle idea in due course.

Except I'm really a boringly nice person who has never even smoked or had more than one beer of an evening. And no tattoos or piercings. So please, nothing even faintly illegal, just funky. OK?

:cheers:

[aerobat]

ah, the Hasty Tasty...:tongue:
It was all red and yeller. Like catsup and mustard, they do not go well together! So I tended to avoid the place even when I lived on Brooklyn St.(one of 14 places I lived in Seattle--the last was on NE 51st).

I was there before the Last Exit existed. But remember it well!
I don't s'pose you remember the Eigerwand? Puss N' Books? Pamir House?
Y'know, I have the lowest REI membership number in all of Austin! That place was a two-room, squeaky-floored upstairs office taken over when some lawyer moved out. It was really funky, and only hardcore climbers and backpackers went there. I was a mountaineer type, and we used to rappel off the Montlake Bridge...now Rebecca, I am sure that was illegal, so I promise I will not encourage us to do it. Or anything else dubious.

Angela, we could visit some little airport, and Craig or I could check out in a 172 and give everyone a ride!

[tabbygirl]

Ohmygosh, I miss that to this day! Books and cats, my 2 favorite things. Well, they're in the Top 5 anyway.

I lived on 55th & University in an extremely funky apartment and it's still one of the best places I ever lived. It's still there, too.

REI! I have to tell you about the founders. Mary Anderson was the spouse of one of them. She died not long ago at about age 94. She was my aunt Mary's best friend and when they were 92, they went off to Switzerland together. They were on a tour and Aunt Mary said they could see the youngsters thinking, "Oh, great, those old farts are going to hold us back." But little did they know they were dealing with old-time mountaineers who had remained astonishingly active. Mary and Mary left a lot of people in the dust!

REI has definitely changed! I love that you have a low membership number. I was disoriented when they stopped mailing dividend checks but instead you redeem your ca$h via computer at the store. SPACE AGE!

All right, we are going to have tons to talk about at the Seattle Flight(Bus)Fest.

Angela

[aerobat]

Angela,

That's a wonderful story about your Aunt Mary and Mary Anderson. Is your aunt still alive? I hope I could have such good health at 92! I remember meeting Jim Whittaker in the mid-sixties and reading his postcards from the Everest expedition that they put up at REI.

The woman who ran Puss N Books--Mrs. Kutz--was a really interesting oldster. I wish I had gotten to know her better. I can so easily visualize her face and her smile--as if she held deep secrets.

I am going to be scarce these next ten days or so, so wanted to let my Bad-Ass Buds over here know that I will be baaaaack around March 21. It's the week of the Maya Meetings here in Austin:

http://www.utmaya.org/

and I am teaching a workshop (Advanced Glyphs and Grammar) and am otherwise swamped...with friends coming in from all over the world and events all day and all evening.

ciao!!:)

Barb

[tabbygirl]

Sadly she passed very suddenly in 2001 - she had remained in good health up to the very last.

She was great - so interested in everything - funny and smart and lively. She continued to exercise every day all her life, and I think of her whenever I feel grumbly about working out. I always loved talking to this totally hip old woman who could discuss current political issues in depth ... or tell stories about riding on horse-drawn milk wagons as a kid - in 1915 or so. It was like talking to a contemporary because she still looked fit and strong and didn't have an "old lady" voice. HIGHLY inspirational. (I know she'd get a kick over my posting about her, too!)

I used to wish there was a way you could tap into someone's brain and videotape their memories - I wanted to literally see our history through her eyes. We were always after her to WRITE IT ALL DOWN, and she did write quite a bit of it.

We miss her so much.

Barb, have a wonderful 10 days - your work sounds tremendously interesting. I hope during BusFest we have a chance to talk about it!

Ang

[Rebecca]

I'm inspired by Aunt Mary too. I want to be like that. So I have taken a vow never, ever to "talk old." Or use phrases like "senior moment" and other such crap. I'm going to keep hiking until I drop. If we're all still on this forum when we get old, I'm gonna whap any of us who start talking about internal functions unless the story includes a bear, carabiners, a thunderstorm and a handsome National Park ranger.

The BusFest is occupying many of my thoughts because it holds such potential for a unique experience with some of you interesting people. Maybe we should rent a dilapidated basement apartment near the docks for the weekend so we'll have a kitchen to cook up all our fresh stuff from the Market.

I, too, want to know more about the Maya. Over fair-trade coffee in a Pike Place dive where they still read poetry out loud.

:coffee: