At 05:16 PM 4/11/03 +0200, you wrote:

>We started out in Portugal, and ended up in Moscow... a total of 31,000
>miles.
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Oh man, thank you for that!  It made my day.  Happy friday.
But you forgot the mention the modification where you replaced the
windshield with the 6" thick tropical fish aquarium because it was cheaper
than the LCD entertainment unit that you had planned to install in the
rear-view mirror.