2018.02.03 13:00 - Travel Dreaming

The Guardian for this meeting was Bruce Mowbray. The comments are by Bruce Mowbray.

Bruce Mowbray: Hi!

Eliza Madrigal: Aloha again :))

Bruce Mowbray: :)

Bruce Mowbray: So, you'll be going to Amsterdam?

Eliza Madrigal: Blub makes the bubbles look like they are coming from your pipe

Eliza Madrigal: I am!

Bruce Mowbray: Ha ha.

Bruce Mowbray: Great!

Bruce Mowbray: I was in Amsterdam once.

Bruce Mowbray: 1966.

Bruce Mowbray: Fond memories.  mostly of museums.

Eliza Madrigal: the package is nonrefundable so I have to stay well

Eliza Madrigal: I've never been to Europe before

Bruce Mowbray: REALLY!???

Eliza Madrigal: really

Eliza Madrigal: so I'm pretty excited

Bruce Mowbray: That's amazing to me.

Eliza Madrigal: I've only been out of the country a few times :)

Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm, I know that one of those (maybe two of those) were to Nova Scotia.

Eliza Madrigal: yup!

Bruce Mowbray: btw, my RL avi is wearing a Nova Scotia sweat shirt today.

Eliza Madrigal: Nova Scotia was my second time out of the country

Eliza Madrigal: Oh?

Bruce Mowbray: Yes, he got it on his first trip to Halifax . . in 2007.

Eliza Madrigal: I really love it there

Eliza Madrigal: maybe because it feels nature conscious

Bruce Mowbray: I found Halifax to be a fascinating town

Eliza Madrigal: what is your favorite place?

Bruce Mowbray: Well, that's Windhorse....

Bruce Mowbray: In Halifax?

Eliza Madrigal: anywhere

Bruce Mowbray: Hmmm. Let me think a minute.

Eliza Madrigal: :)

Bruce Mowbray: To visit. . . . .

Bruce Mowbray: Probably New York.

Bruce Mowbray: because there is such a variety of things to do and see.

Eliza Madrigal wondered if that would be your answer ^.^

Bruce Mowbray: and places to get lost....

Bruce Mowbray: and people to watch.

Eliza Madrigal: it is like a hundred thousand places in one spot

Bruce Mowbray: yes.

Bruce Mowbray: and one can slip into a small church and just be in silence for a while.

Eliza Madrigal: mmm, yes

Bruce Mowbray: I know some really quiet small churches in New York....

Eliza Madrigal: I wonder if somewhere like, say London, feels that way too?

Bruce Mowbray: and some enormous loud ones, too.

Bruce Mowbray: I'm sure that London is a lot like New York.

Bruce Mowbray: I've been in London a couple of times.

Bruce Mowbray: but that was long ago.

Bruce Mowbray: I love Scotland.

Eliza Madrigal: wonderful you've traveled so much

Bruce Mowbray: Went all over the Highlands in 2006.

Bruce Mowbray: (which is why I went to Nova Scotia the following year.)

Eliza Madrigal: ah

Bruce Mowbray: I went for the annual Highland Festival (in Halifax).

Bruce Mowbray: Took lots of photos.

Eliza Madrigal: oooh, lots of Scottish in Halifax?

Bruce Mowbray: to remind me of Scotland.

Bruce Mowbray: OH YES!

Bruce Mowbray: Nova Scotia = New Scotland.

Eliza Madrigal: hah!

Bruce Mowbray: :)

Eliza Madrigal: I can't believe I missed that

Eliza Madrigal: the two places I always wanted to visit are Paris and Ireland, but I seem to be going lots of other places ^.^

Bruce Mowbray: Nova Scotia even has its own tartan colors.

Bruce Mowbray: I was in Paris (twice) in 1966....

Bruce Mowbray: I still dream about Paris.

Bruce Mowbray: I dream about the designs in Notre Dame Cathedral.

Eliza Madrigal: it is such a dream itself

Bruce Mowbray: and I grieved for Paris during the recent floods.

Eliza Madrigal nods

Eliza Madrigal: oh, wait, India too. I'd like to go to India :)

Bruce Mowbray: Oh my!

Bruce Mowbray: I no longer feel that it is safe for me to travel.

Bruce Mowbray: but I enjoy hearing about others' travels.

Eliza Madrigal: still vertigo issues?

Bruce Mowbray: Well that, yes, but also my short term memory,

Bruce Mowbray: I tend to forget things - leave important things lying around - one can't do that (for long) in New York, ha ha.

Bruce Mowbray: I left a computer on the subway once.

Eliza Madrigal: Oh, I see ... must be very difficult, especially for someone who has such a good memory generally, like you do

Eliza Madrigal: Oh, that sounds like me on a normal day!

Bruce Mowbray: and had to go back the very next day (all the way from Ohio) to retrieve it from the police.

Bruce Mowbray: The police treated it as a "suspected crime" -- NOT by me, but by whoever got it off the subway and onto the platform.

Bruce Mowbray: Post 9/11 thinking, I suppose.

Eliza Madrigal: that makes sense

Bruce Mowbray: anyway, the police were amazingly gracious.

--BELL—

Bruce Mowbray: They didn't even ask me to identify what was in the backpack. . . And they let me use the police men's restroom. Amazing.

Bruce Mowbray: Aph wants to know if we care to join her at an exhibition.

Eliza Madrigal: yes, let's go :)

Eliza Madrigal: that's surprising, re the police

Eliza Madrigal: trustworthy air about you :)

Bruce Mowbray: OK. Off to Aph's