FRIDAY FIVE August 8 / Moose & Squirrel

Friday, Aug. 08, 2003 - 1:20 a.m.

This week's Friday Five: (Questions are boldface, my answers appear beneath.)

What's the last place you traveled to, outside your own home state/country?

A: Out of country: Banff Springs, Alberta in 1989. Out of state: Columbus Day in 1991, to Reno, to get married.

What's the most bizarre/unusual thing that's ever happened to you while traveling?

A: A Canadian border guard demolished the truck my second husband and I were travelling in, because he suspected we had guns. The fact that we were wearing black leather jackets and welding-glass black sunglasses and had the Sex Pistols' version of 'God Save The Queen' on the sound system probably didn't help matters much. Also, once there was a guy sitting next to me on the Greyhound Bus about twenty years ago; when he thought our 'conversation' dried up (I had stuck buds in my ears and begun listening to my radio), he pulled out a harmonica and began playing 'Scarf Dance'. Fortunately, the bus driver, being the merciful soul that he was, got on the intercom and told my seat-mate to put that goddamned thing away or it was getting thrown out of the window. He was a pretty good player, though.

If you could take off to anywhere, money and time being no object, where would you go?

A: I would take a cruise from SF to Hawaii to Australia and then back up around to Europe and then over to New York and then take the Amtrak back across the USA to San Francisco. I guess I would be gone a long time, too, huh?

Do you prefer traveling by plane, train or car?

A: A private car is always the best, of course. I don't like flying.

What's the next place on your list to visit?

A: I'm going to Utah in the first week of September by train.

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Now Here's Something We Hope You'll Really Like: Run, do not walk, to your nearest DVD store and purchase the first season of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The one in our house was purchased at Target for $24.95. This boxed set is nothing short of stunning; the clarity of the sound and the images is like nothing you ever saw on the tee and vee when you were growing up; the extras are wonderful, and the wit and classic barbs are just as biting and ironically relevant as they ever were. Do not miss this.

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Carb-free seems to be working; I'm less puffy, and in ketosis -- and we have Splenda in the house, which is a sugar substitute that doesn't have that gawdaful aftertaste that Equal has -- but oh GOD. I have such cravings right now. I keep having the odd urge to sneak over to the kitchen area and drink a shot glass full of Crisco oil.

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And finally -- good news. My trip to Utah is back on, and the dates have been set. Yay!

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