tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post7208830558993334579..comments2024-01-01T18:48:00.179-07:00Comments on DADA'S DALLY: Tonight my editor Sam sent his blog writer out with the camera.Dadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-28500915846233681252008-06-30T08:33:00.000-06:002008-06-30T08:33:00.000-06:00Actually, I just realized...with commenters like y...Actually, I just realized...with commenters like you, B.E., and grey tiger here, my comments on this mission will come from way beneath the water's surface. I'll expect y'all who've been there, done that. to buoy me up when I sink.<BR/><BR/>(Hmmm, maybe I'll just go light on the details, more on my impressions?)Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-35190272933778197062008-06-30T08:30:00.000-06:002008-06-30T08:30:00.000-06:00Well, B.E., I confess: the thought occurred to me ...Well, B.E., I confess: the thought occurred to me a blog on this group just might "bait you" into revealing a little more of the "highlight of your life" moments during your own journey to Cuba one year.<BR/><BR/>In fact, we met a young girl there that evening that made me wish we'd had children. Just so vibrant, alive, very sweet, polite and you could see all of this in her before even speaking with her. And I happened to say to this person that I knew of a couple who had made this very trip some years earlier; that one of them had remarked to me it was "the highlight of her life."<BR/><BR/>Yes, I shall make a meager offering re our evening with the blockade busters soon, but ask your patience at anything I may get wrong and your contributions (from "one who's been there," such as yourself) would be most welcomed!<BR/><BR/>It was a very uplifting evening. Undoubtedly a highlight of my life! (Ah, you can tell I haven't been near as far around the block as you, my compatre! ~[a word I just made up.]) ~D.Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-56208178592421271162008-06-30T08:07:00.000-06:002008-06-30T08:07:00.000-06:00Jeebus, Dada, you wouldn't be baiting me? "MEM-ree...Jeebus, Dada, you wouldn't be baiting me? <BR/>"MEM-reez light the KORners of ma mind." I do hope you'll post on the caravan. I may be tempted to tell some of my stories. It was the highlight of my life.<BR/>Thanks for going to the potluck.Billie Greenwoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08214111146566550821noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-82892167926823734602008-06-29T19:43:00.000-06:002008-06-29T19:43:00.000-06:00Hi GT! Thanks for stopping by. I felt so badly los...Hi GT! Thanks for stopping by. I felt so badly losing the few images I managed to take of the buses Friday eve that I returned Saturday morning, hoping to catch 'em before they left. <BR/><BR/>I was too late. But all was not lost for I had a very serendipitous moment on the way back that I hope to post some photos of in the next day or two. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, discovering Janine's photo gallery yesterday on her blog of the trip, I asked it I might use a picture or two and have been awaiting her reply when your e-mail arrived. <BR/><BR/>So thank you! I just wanted to get a post on my small blog before the 3rd when they plan to cross over our border so that any of my regulars, so inclined, might be able to see what's going on with the caravanistas. <BR/><BR/>How fortunate for you that you were able to go on one of these ventures. (A regular reader of this blog, and personal friend - along with her husband - went on this trip back in the 90's - "Border Explorer".)<BR/><BR/>BTW, I enjoyed reading your latest blog entry. It made me nostalgic, thinking of our two trips to Alberta/Eastern BC and Victoria and how much we enjoyed them.<BR/><BR/>So thanks for the "greenlight." I shall work up something soon to let readers know what's happening with the Peacekeepers.<BR/><BR/>(Oh, and BTW, Sam my "editor" is our dalmation mix dogger and he wasn't too upset I blew the photo op.)Dadahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17257598218959429347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13779951.post-20059853528878109152008-06-29T18:54:00.000-06:002008-06-29T18:54:00.000-06:00So glad to have found you. Janine is a dear frien...So glad to have found you. Janine is a dear friend and her blog had the photos you can borrow for Editor Sam if you need some. She'll be happy to share, as always.<BR/>Tuesday is Canada Day here and we celebrate taking the country from our native friends a long time ago. You know, the day following the big apology for fucking up the natives with residential schools for 6 or 7 generations of torment, this government passed a law that allows oil companies to dump pollutants into their northern lakes!! We are as bad as the Bush admin for what we are doing to the people here and abroad. Canada Peacekeepers??? Not on their lives, we're not!!<BR/>I am so glad you got to see the Caravan, I was on it in '01 and it was hot, hard, and heavy but I'll treasure those memories and friends until I die!!<BR/>Warmly,<BR/>Barbara in Victoria CanadaThe Grey Tigerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00238557632663099036noreply@blogger.com