New York:- Dallas

One thing that yo should keep in mind when reading these emails was the date. I flew out of Sydney on 5 December 2001. Just under three months after September 11. It was a very weird time to be travelling, but I am really glad that I did it, because it was a time that will (hopefully) never be repeated. Oh, and the fact that I have grown up a lot since 2001 :)

This was the inaugral message of my distribution list. I must say that it is much shorter than a most of my recent mails. Maybe now that I am getting older, I am more full of sh*t than before. Heh, can you imagine what I am going to be like when I am 80! (assuming for a moment that I have not been brutally murdered by a spiteful ex-wife who really, really, really wanted the Jag in the settlement). One of the amusing things about looking back on these emails is to see the number of spelling mistakes, particularly after long-haul flights. This is one of the better examples of how business-class should be mandatory!

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Geoffrey Campey"
> To: Almost_evri1
> Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2001 10:19 AM
> Subject: Hi Y'all
>
> Hello to all of you out there,
> Just to let you know that I have arrived in Dallas and
> the ole thing of it being as "Big as Texas"....well,
> its knida true. There is nothing small in this town,
> even the bottles of Coke are huge!
>
> Everyone I have met ober here has been really sweet,
> except the Security Chickee at LA Airport that made me
> take off my shoes and run them through the X-Ray
> machine because the metal rings for the laces to go
> through were setting off the metal detector. The
> hightened state of paranoia is amazing - I have never
> seen a country so introverted. The most amusing thing
> I have noticed is now that the War against the Taliban
> is nearly over, the question they are asking
> themselves is not "Have we stopped terrorism?", its
> quite simply "Who do we attack next?". Very scary,
> cause at some point, the other side is going to fight back.
> Anyway, that is my political rant for the moment, if
> you don't want to be on this mailing list, just let me
> know and i will take you off. I have another two days here and then
> off to New Orleans.
>
> Talk with you all soon,
>
> Regards,
> Geoffrey

Dallas - boring. Take me to where the Party is: New Orleans ->