I get back from an absolute trip of a lifetime to find a mushroom cloud hanging over this bbs. Anyone fancy giving me a brief update ta?

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

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Hi Loony Toon! Good to have you back.......sounds as though your trip was marvellous. (:o)

Just read through some of the last weeks threads, and you`ll soon get the gist of what`s been occuring.....but do that later. First you have to get us all up to speed about the `best bits` of your trip.(:o)

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

Welcome back LT. You missed nowt really, just some clown shoving dog doo through the letter box, figuratively speaking like. :-)

-- Anonymous, August 31, 2001

drama, Loony... pure unmitigated drama....

Mackemitis...BBS outages and viruses...

talk about your dog days of Summer....

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Well I´ll be damned!! Cheers for the updates one and all. I just had a quick shifty through the threads as per your suggestion Gal and it sounds yet again as if I missed all the excitement eh? Actually I´d also in the meantime gone to my hotmail account and found yards and yards of unadulterated cr@p which I guess would all be connected??

Even more importantly than a few mackem goons was of course catching up on the Sunlun match thread (finally). Why not as many postings as for the Chelsea and Troyes games I wonder? Doubtless everyone was too busy watching it live on the tele I´d guess.

As for the trip Galaxy, I won´t bore you senseless on here (I understand some of the Oz-based bbsers have been posting my ramblings up on here anyway) but basically the considerably-better-half and myself are just back from an amazing tour around the SW of Bolivia. Included the biggest salt lake in the world, hotels made entirely from the stuff, lakes that were the most incredible bright colours (from the algae?), freakish moonscapes full of steaming geysers etc etc. Conditions were a little basic at times but, along with our Galapagos visit 10 weeks ago, it was truly the trip of a lifetime.

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Welcome back LT - we've missed yer. Your trip sounds like a dream one - jealous as hell.

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Aw shucks cheers Clarky. Though I dunno what I´ve done to be missed! Yep, Breda and myself do keep reminding ourselves how lucky we are to be doing this. Not that our lives are all that shabby in Sydney ;O)) And we´re still 3.5 weeks away from being halfway through ´n all!!

BTW I completely agree with your stand against idiots infiltrating this board - can´t see how anyone would have a problem with a genuine email a/d being a prerequisite to posting ...

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Thanks for the support LT - that's five of us now!

I just feel the prevalent liberal do-wah-diddy-diddy approach is overly idealistic. To date it has utterly failed, and I cannot see it ensuring the future of the site in the shape most of us want to see it - a forum for those with something to say, or those who just want to read it - and not yet another ugly receptacle for inane dross. There are more than enough of those around already.

I had assumed your trip had finished and you were back in Oz. Make the most of the the rest of it - I'm sure you will.

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Loony, I`ll have to rake through some back postings and see if I can find them - it sounds wonderful and exciting. Where are you now then, if you`re not back in Australia?(:o)

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Loony, do keep the updates on your trip coming. You both write in such wonderful detail. It's the kind of trip I dream of taking, but am far too wimpy to attempt, so will live it through your eyes. :-)

-- Anonymous, September 01, 2001

Gal - apologies to all others but it`s impossible to recount this w/out it appearing as bragging - currently in La Paz, highest cap. city in world; another couple of weeks in Bolivia trekking and staring at yet more animals, this time in the Pampas & poss. Amazon jungle too; then onto do Inca Trail from Cusco to Macchu Picchu; fly Lima to Madrid for 4 weeks in Spain (hopefully catch up with the Barca boys?); 3 weeks putting weight back on in Ireland with Breda`s family; crowning highlight of course being the 4 weeks in UK catching up with mates & (all going well on ticket front) catching the lads play 4 or 5 times. Heaven on a stick

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2001

Ciara - haway you wimp, get yersel` outta the States!

;O)

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2001

Maybe you should be publishing your account of this trip! Sounds good enough to make the grade!(:o)

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2001

I wouldn't call it bragging to be recountimg what you've been up to, along the lines of 'we were here, we saw this, then we were there and we did that'. Them's facts, you're not bragging, so spill the beans and let us all join Clarky in being jealous as hell. You spawny g1t :- )))

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2001

I have no problem getting myself outta the States(very rarely use vacation time to stay within US borders), just need my comforts of good quality hotels and recognizable food(i.e. meat, potatos, pasta, minimal vegetable matter). That's the part where I'm really wimpy. ;-)

Also don't think you're bragging at all. This really is the trip of a lifetime. WEll worth talking about.

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2001