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Leslie Van Buskirk's avatar

Love these missives! Keep ‘em coming, please 🙏 Picturing you in various scenarios (half-delirious with cabin fever Covid, sweating to death in Moroccan heat, enjoying a stogie and a beer on deck as the sun sets, etc) has me wondering who’ll play you in the miniseries. Tom Hanks would ace it, of course, but Woody Harrelson might be a better fit. Bryan Cranston? Clooney? Viggo Mortensen with a paunch works for me, too. 🤩

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Claire Z.'s avatar

I must remember to finish my morning cup of coffee before I read another one of your interesting and always hilarious reports. I'm still cleaning up the mess I've made laughing so hard I snorted a good part of the coffee out my nose and all over my $5 TEMU cat print PJs. (The stains won't show -- most of the cats are brown anyway.) Will be better armed and ready for your next dispatch from the high seas. Sail on!

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RetiredZGrt's avatar

We hear you disembarked in Dakar and are not crossing the Atlantic with the ship. Are you going to tell us what led to that decision and where you decided to go? I wish you all the best and hope you enjoy whatever you are presently doing and really hope you tell us about with your amazingly sharp wit!

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Joe Rhodes's avatar

I really wanted to vote in person, so I flew back to Dallas for Election Day. My birthday is also coming up, so I'm gonna stick around for a couple of weeks and hopefully rejoin the Odyssey somewhere in the Caribbean.

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RetiredZGrt's avatar

god I love sarcastic cheeky wit. I think I'm in love. Too bad we didn't meet back when I gave a s#&t about relationships. I'm hearing there are issues with dirty water and that unlike (heavily) advertised, the pools don't actually work and only 1 is filled, but the only way to maintain it is to drain and refill. Please don't get in. Also please only wash your face with filtered water and use bottled water for brushing teeth/rinsing toothbrushes. Stock up on hand sanitizer onshore on your way to the pub and don't wash your hands in your cabin sink. Otherwise, enjoy your trip!

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marga Kelley mcelroy's avatar

Hope you are feeling stronger soon. Improve your tourism skills or you won't find the best pubs. Keep these great posts coming!

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Pj's avatar

Do they come check on you every day on the ship or can you just be left alone.

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Joe Rhodes's avatar

On the third day they came by and after I said I was feeling better I was released on my own recognizance.

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Pj's avatar
Oct 30Edited

Interesting! On a regular cruise they check on you every day if you don’t leave your room. Lots of oldies on that ship I imagine lol. Hope some one notices therm… gone … if it comes to that!

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Don Frazier's avatar

Not bad at all! Knocking on the door of John ("Music in Every Room") Krich.

But The Road ... was "The most famous movie ever made about Casablanca"? Dunno.

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Joe Rhodes's avatar

What, there were others?

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