The insane itinerary!

[moongirlk]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Tabouli" <tabouli at u...> wrote:
> Depart Ottawa 28th June 3:44pm, change at Chicago
> Arrive St Louis, 7:43pm
> 
> (attend conference, meet Kimberly?)

I certainly hope so!  I'll try to finagle a day off to show you the 
(perfectly charming and hardly ever life-threatening, dammit!) 
sights, if you like.  You'll miss out on the fair, but now that I've 
been told who Lee Greenwood is, it's just as well. sigh.

If money really is tight, I bet I can give you a pretty decent tour 
for next to nothing.  We're the only city I know where the major 
museums and the zoo are still free, plus there's the brewery tour 
(free tour *and* free beer tasting), and various other fun things.


> Kimberly:
> > May I just say that your itinerary sounds like you're about to 
embark 
> on the Amazing Race?  Yes, I too have become hooked by a reality TV 
show.  <
>
Tabouli: 
> Re the reality TV shows, yes, my shameless addiction to Big Brother 
>continues (hides face).  

Don't worry, I've given up reading the main list here for the last 
couple of weeks in favor of the Television Without Pity site's boards 
about the Amazing Race.  I'm thoroughly embarrassed, but I seriously 
am so smitten with the show - mostly because if I could, I'd make a 
life out of visiting all of these great places, but since I can't 
make a living doing that, I'm enjoying it vicariously.  And I was 
shocked to find that one of the teams impressed me so much I'm 
wondering if I can get the Mrs. Norris treatment and go be their 
pet.  It never occurred to me that clever, charming, gracious people 
would be willing to go on a reality show.  Who knew?

>On the subject of the itinerary, the madness of it is rather 
>ironic.  As I've mentioned off-list to a few people, in years gone 
>by I *sniffed* at the sort of jolly backpacker who claims to have 
>Done Europe in two weeks. I snorted.  I even sneered.  How, I 
>sniped, do they think they can get *any* sort of a feel for a 
>country if they spend one day there seeing the tourist sites?  
>Ludicrous.  Foolish.  Contemptible.

Hey, if it's all you've got, you take the opportunity.  Sure, it 
would be far better to spend a few weeks in each place and really get 
the feel so you know which ones you want to spend even *more* time 
in, but there's no shame in doing the quick-tour if that's all you 
can manage. Better than missing out alltogether, isn't it?