Ah, that's right too.

66 Grande guy wrote:

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41 kliks to Rome! We might actually do this!

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 Oh nice! I assume that means 2-3 more days.  What an adventure...

66 Grande guy wrote:

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We' have to chat when I get back. It's quite a story. Thanks to my wife's 14000 pictures I may have a chance to recall some of it. Mostly it's walking, recovering from walking, getting ready to walk. Hard to believe my chubby 67 year old body still had this many miles in it. Lost quite a few pounds but would have lost more if I hadn't quaffed a beer at every bar. Tomorrow the outskirts of Rome and the next day a short easy 10 to the Vatican.

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 Too bad the timing is just slightly off. I picked up our kids at the airport a week ago. They did a tour of the UK, France and Italy including some time in Rome, Vatican etc. 

Hope they didn't cut me off again! Today's the day for us. 10 kms to the Vatican and it's raining in rome. Nothing will stop us now!(unless I get run over by an Italian driver or thrown out of St Peter's for laughing at a Swiss guard.)

Made it! Although didn't quite make it into st peters as a I forgotten a paring knife in my back pack and security figured I was there to kill the pope. I spent the time while my wife was getting our pilgrim testimonials filled put having a bit of wine out of my emergency supply and watching the tourists. All on all a good day and in the words of the poet and philosopher Ken yackimec, "so much for that."

We fly back on the 10th. Hope to be home on the mancave couch wondering what that was all about by Nov 12. Might have a new show by the 13th but not likely until the 20th. Jet lag will hit me for a while. It's always worse coming west. Looking forward to hearing the canadian accent again. Yeah we do have one or two.

Bit of an update.  I was planning to do a new show on the 20th but Covid had other plans. i must have picked it up on the 10 hour plane ride especially since the plane was also packed with a bunch of returning cruise ship tourists. Talk about double jeopardy.  There was one lady across the aisle from me who exploded in vomit about halfway through the flight but i just figured it was air sickness or indigestion. Thee was also a lady behind in the long line to check in who said she really didnt feel well.   Anyway it hit me pretty hard on Sunday night and I've been down for a few days but am on the mend.  Good way to lose 8 lbs in three days.

Anyway the news is that the station will do one more recorded show on the 20th and then I should be back.  The manager wants to talk to me about the show -good stuff she says- so we'll have the conversation too.

By the way the reason it gets cut off is that when its live, its me that ends the show even if i'm a bit over the two hours, but when its recorded the computer gives me a two hour block and then thats it.  Later in the prerecordings i did this summer i learned to watch the clock much closer so hopefully wont happen anymore.

Working on  new old stuff for future shows once i clean out my mancave from the slovenly cats that were in and  out of it all summer. What a life!)

Ken, we have a maritime provinces cbc Saturday and Sunday morning radio show, they start at 6AM and run until 9. The show has been around forever and plays everything, old country, heavy metal, rock, east coast music, broadway, you name it.

They sometimes do themed shows or weekends, listening to a train themed show now, Randy Newman, Dixie Flyer, Boxcar Willie, etc.

One weekend quite a few years ago, the former host, Stan Carew, did a weekend of only bagpipe music, it was unforgettable. Im sure Carl is holding back on his bagpipe requests and will now let loose? Did you March to any bagpipe tunes on your recent walking vacation?

DonSSDD wrote:

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 I'm sure Carl is holding back on his bagpipe requests and will now let loose? 

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 I actually LOVE bagpipe music!

A taste my Mennonite wife has certainly never acquired...

It's ok, I wear headphones for your show because too much of the stuff you play makes her roll her eyes, the same way she does when I buy more car parts identical to the ones I already have on the shelf.

Looking forward to new stuff! The one playing right now was on just a few weeks ago if I'm right.