All Is Right In Merv's World

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The drama has apparently passed - our great new Aussie friend, Ben, was at work today during the dayshift so that he could get his mate, Mark this evening. Ben's wifey was with them both tonite when I arrived and there was a fun buzz regarding the new myspace page. www.myspace.com/mervsrestaurant

Mark, like Ben, has done an impressive amount of travel in the past couple of years - he told me stories of southeast Asia, Europe, eastern Europe, and the states. I never began to travel until I got into trucking and could afford it, at age 38 or so, and Ben and Mark are in their mid-20's. Like them, I did a couple of years of hostels and backbacking, but unlike them, I have always been a bit intimidated with the more extreme ventures either in culture or in language. After a couple of years, I quickly graduated to nicer hotels and familiar places and I'm sorry I haven't found the strong adventure to pry myself away from the comfort of Ireland and get out to the south Pacific, or even China or Russia, all places I want to see someday. But Mark is still the carefree spirit letting his schedule be determined by the money in his pocket and the promises of places to stay he has gathered from previous trips. It'd be cool to go off with them for a while, but of course even Ben, now married, is probably beyond that freedom. Still, the stories set against the backdrop of good tunes, cold beer, and the click of pool balls is fun! Or, as the Irish say - good craic!

Cheers! Ben on the left, Mark on the right

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Re: All Is Right In Merv's World

glad the drama has scaled back mightily and that the undercurrents are positive ones.

those hamburgers look delicious, which means it's gotta be chockful of serious cholesterol. so have the occasional salad and get *your* cholesterol checked. you know your invisible friends and the folks at merv's would like to have you around for a long, long time to come.

my sister lisa went to russia twice; she said it was a sad place.....that even when the sun was shining, the feeling was pervasively bleak and sad. of course, this was in the early 80's, so perhaps things have changed.

while living in japan, our family made it to hong kong (like 5 times), taiwan, korea and the phillipines. somehow we missed thailand. a stopover in kurachi flying from hong kong to paris was enough for me....that was the filthiest airport i've ever seen; there was a mass congregation of cockroaches in the bathroom. ick ick ick. of course, there were parts of europe, which you would think would be highly civilized, which weren't.