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  While I'm not downplaying the "intestinal fortitude" of these intrepid new
millenium adventurers..
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I can hear it now... someday one of these guys will be telling their
grandkids about this trip and he'll say 'y'know you guys have it easy...
back then we had to carry the phone around in our hand, we didn't have none
of this implant stuff....'

It's all relative. It wasn't that long ago that people were making that
cross-country trip in a wagon, or on shank's mare. I imagine our
great-grandfathers were once saying to somebody 'engine... what engine?'

Cya,
Robert