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Re: Can we et back to actual been there here's the scoop tra

Postby ROB » Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:29 pm

Still around. Not soliciting any articles since Stiv had a stroke. Easy enough to fire back up I guess.
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Postby crotalus01 » Mon Jan 30, 2017 11:46 pm

Damn....is Stiv okay? I'll keep him in my prayers.
Anyways ROB if you're interested I'll try and do a writeup on wherever I go for PB. Pics too. Waiting to see how this whole travel/visa mess works out, but I'm not headed out until this summer so there's time for it to simmer down.
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Postby db36046 » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:07 pm

Hadn't checked in for about a year and a half, and then I log on to find this thread. Sad state of affairs; haven't been properly insulted for a while until I sat across the table in a bar from a superior officer during the afterglow of the funeral of a highly regarded LTC who died last week of cancer. Felt kinda good to hear some properly offensive estimations of my skill set, general comportment, and attitude - all taken in good humor.
I haven't been anywhere more exciting than So Cal, Central Mexico, and the US/Mexico border areas for the last couple of years. Makes it hard to keep the edge; you get soft and sloppy, even when you try to stay in training. I have to go walking in the less civilized areas of South Phoenix after hours just to remember what condition yellow feels like.
I'm even down to carrying my little Beretta .25 about half of the time instead of a real gun.
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Postby db36046 » Fri Apr 14, 2017 6:09 pm

If this keeps up I may have to find a job.
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Postby nowonmai » Sat Apr 15, 2017 9:04 am

db36046 wrote:haven't been properly insulted for a while until I sat across the table in a bar from a superior officer during the afterglow of the funeral of a highly regarded LTC who died last week of cancer. Felt kinda good to hear some properly offensive estimations of my skill set, general comportment, and attitude - all taken in good humor.


Hoist it on board fellah!
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Postby Ozymandias » Sun May 07, 2017 1:34 pm

I'd be keen to write something for Polo's Bastards Rob! Maybe a Worst Destinations of 2017 to get the ball rolling again?
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Postby nowonmai » Sun May 14, 2017 12:17 am

Ozymandias wrote:I'd be keen to write something for Polo's Bastards Rob! Maybe a Worst Destinations of 2017 to get the ball rolling again?


If you pull that off, I'm going to ask you to dig up the dog I had as a kid.
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Postby Travelbug » Wed May 17, 2017 4:26 pm

Can we get back to actual been there here's the scoop travel


Slightly off topic on this forum, but how about this one?

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Postby Ozymandias » Wed Jul 26, 2017 12:07 pm

nowonmai wrote:
Ozymandias wrote:I'd be keen to write something for Polo's Bastards Rob! Maybe a Worst Destinations of 2017 to get the ball rolling again?


If you pull that off, I'm going to ask you to dig up the dog I had as a kid.


Deal! What do you reckon ROB?
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