--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sal: > > I totally agree with this, Barry. Was anyone else on the first > > Holland Course, I think in '83?
Long after my time, but I love your telling of it. I can relate, from other courses. > > There we all were, during one of the > > coldest winters on record, in one of the coldest countries in the > > world, in a freezing flying hall, some of the hotels with minimal > > heat as well, bad food... I still have a phobia about brussel sprouts. :-) > > ...transportation TMO-style so bad a bunch of us > > decided to rent cars at our won expense...and this was supposed > > to be *FUN.* This was how hundreds of us were spending our > > vacation time. :) > > > > Were we nuts, deluded, or both? Yes. The amazing thing is, it *was* fun. At the time. We were having a *ball* freezing our butts off and eating brussel sprouts every night. Go figure. Doofuses were us. :-) > I really loved that course. I think it must have been '84 cuz I was > running the DC center then. Driving 100 miles an hour in a rented > BMW to get to the lecture hall. Being in freak'n Amsterdam and NOT > diving into the cannabis menu! How nuts was that. LOL.