Take the boss with you.  Or just fly down to Phaedra on a last minute cheap
flight and stay 'till summer.  OK?
Do you understand what life is now?
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "JJ" <kelandjj@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: Saludos de Mexico! (minimal Vanagon content)

> *sigh*
>
> Ya know...  I'm sitting here in Minnesota, it just
> snowed another 9 inches, the temp is supposed to maybe
> reach a high of zero degrees, and i've got the flu.
> Finding fresh affordable seafood is damn near
> impossible, and the only body surfing to be done would
> be me laying down to slide across the ice in my parka
> on one of the frozen lakes.
>
> If I wasn't already pushed to the brink of Winter
> Insanity, Phaedra's post is leaving me teetering on
> the edge.  Possibly tomorrow I'll crack and run
> screaming to the storage facility where my Westy has
> been sitting.  I'll gun it out of the garage and hit
> the road, bound for Mexico...  my only concern being
> how to make it around the snow plows.  In three days
> I'd be sipping a Modelo, chomping on shrimp and
> wondering if I should go surfing again or maybe just
> swimming this time...
>
> Yep, it's sounding just a little too good right now.
>
> (but how would I explain it to the boss?)
>
> :)
>
> JJ
> '85 Westy
>
> --- Phaedra Savage <phaedrasavage@HOTMAIL.COM> wrote:
> > Buenas Tardes, Listees--
> > I crossed the border into Mexico approx three weeks
> > ago
> > & my van has performed flawlessly thus far. I have
> > been making
> > my way slowly down the Pacific coast of mainland
> > Mexico, swimming,
> > body surfing, reading, & consuming a great deal of
> > fresh caught
> > shrimp.  Believe it or not, I have just about had my
> > fill of it, &
> > am nearly ready to head up into the central
> > highlands for a change of
> > scene.
> > This is the first opportunity I�ve had to
> > send/receive email, thus
> > have been blissfully incognito. I may have another
> > email opportunity
> > in a few days or so when I reach colonial Mexico.
> > I imagine I�ve missed some (?) rousing debates about
> > Bars Leak & other
> > equally stimulating topics, but I suppose I will
> > survive.
> > The Mexican cervesa is good as ever!
> > Ciao for now,
> > Phaedra
> >
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