I Escaped Small Town Life Last Night

[Boudicca]

for one evening in Tucson.  My daughter dragged me up there to see the off Broadway musical WICKED, the untold tale of the Wicked Witch of the West.  AND she made me listen to her iPOD full of GLEE musical songs all the way up and back. :banghead:She got all exasperated with me:  "Mother, why do you HAVE to tell me you prefer the original versions of those songs!"
My kids accuse me of liking all the old stuff and not wanting to try anything new.  I see it as preferring a time when life was simpler.  I am not quite a technophobe, but what's wrong with having an 8-year old car that plays CD's and doesn't have XM radio.
Damn, I'm hijacking my own thread.  I started out about escaping SV last night.  The performance was quite wonderful, as are all live events (musicals, plays, concerts).  I enjoy the crowd's energy as much as the actual event on stage.  Anyway, if you haven't seen it, I do recommend going. 
And, we stopped for a quick bite to eat on the way to the show and in honor of Godot's thread, ate gyros. :-)Despite SOME folks' attempts to make gyros a disgusting food item, I quite enjoyed my, um, eating experience.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I'm with you on most of the ap-to-the-minute tech being basically expensive toys I can live without.  The one thing that makes me wish I had XM is the over-teched Blaupunkt radio in my truck (I bought it used and the radio was in it) which will just cut out a station if the signal varies a bit too much for its bitchy little circuits, unlike the more primitive and more useful radios in every other vehicle I have.  Plus it has a sucky control system.  I truly hate Blaupunkt radios and will never, ever buy one to put into a vehicle.

I love a good gyros, and my wife makes me look like a gyros-hater.  How do you screw up a gyros?

[TexasCop]

Wait, isn't it spelled TUSCON?   

[Boudicca]

Wait, isn't it spelled TUSCON?   

Yeah, if you are referring to Sheriff Dumpdick, aka, Let's Open The Borders To All Illegal Aliens

My husband pronounces it TUXON.  He just luvs to irritate me.

[Boudicca]

I'm with you on most of the ap-to-the-minute tech being basically expensive toys I can live without.  The one thing that makes me wish I had XM is the over-teched Blaupunkt radio in my truck (I bought it used and the radio was in it) which will just cut out a station if the signal varies a bit too much for its bitchy little circuits, unlike the more primitive and more useful radios in every other vehicle I have.  Plus it has a sucky control system.  I truly hate Blaupunkt radios and will never, ever buy one to put into a vehicle.

I love a good gyros, and my wife makes me look like a gyros-hater.  How do you screw up a gyros?

Gawd, the best gyros I've eaten have been in Germany and there it's the Turkish vendors on the street corners who slowly rotate fresh lamb on an open spit. :drool:The first time I sashayed up and ordered a gyros I got a VERY quick education in Turkish/Grecian bad relations (which I already knew, but sheesh they look alike to me ) and it was a DONAR KEBAP.  Nevertheless, I cried on the plane coming home to the USA on our last tour cuz I knew that was the last I'd see of a true gyros miracle as well as the awesome Balkan platters.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Yeah, I loved me some German street food, the Doner Kebap was good but so was the Schaslik, Frikadella, Wursts of all kinds, even the cold-cut Brotchens...memories, memories...

 

[Thor]

That's one thing I miss about being overseas and that is the various street food. I guess the US is too anal to allow it because the Health Department has to get involved. I've eaten street food in every country I've been to and never once gotten ill. Tijuana had some awesome street food. The vendors down there even had the taco meat on a vertical spit and sliced it off for each taco. And who didn't LOVE the "monkey meat on a stick" found in the Philippines??

[Boudicca]

Yeah, I loved me some German street food, the Doner Kebap was good but so was the Schaslik, Frikadella, Wursts of all kinds, even the cold-cut Brotchens...memories, memories...

 

 
On our second tour, we lived in a little farming village, Machtolsheim, about 40 miles from where hubby's unit was at Kelly Barracks, in Stuttgart.  The village was too small for its own bakery so twice a week the Backerei from nearby Laichingen would come around and we'd have access to fresh baked goods.  OMG, I gained weight every time we were overseas.

And Thor, my husband swears by the Thai street vendors.  He's been over there on past TDY trips a half dozen times and told me you can get great $1 meals that fill you up.

[NHSparky]

And who didn't LOVE the "monkey meat on a stick" found in the Philippines??

That's cause half the time it WAS monkey.  First stop we always made when the boat pulled into Subic was Via's for tacos and lumpia.  Then we were sufficiently fortified to attempt another round of "PI Bar Dice."

I never finished once.