*** Quoting Maurice Kinal from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 MK>> You got that right.  Travelling is a real pain these days.

 CS> Dudes, ya aint got nothing on my set of travels!  .

MK> No doubt but you cheat on that regard.  Speaking of which, we're still
MK> waiting patiently for the 'crabbing' boat.

Wait on dudes!  ;-)


MK> I'd like to check one of those out one day.  I remember having a conve
MK> way back when with some friends and predicting something like that in
MK> the forseeable future.  At the time my friends thought I was nuts.  Er
MK> ... they were right about that part but I was right about the train pa

 CS> (grin, no free stuff like on a plane but a soda was 100 yen 
 CS> which is less than out in town at a machine).

MK> That sounds like a good price.  I haven't looked up a yen lately but l
MK> time I checked it out that would make that less then a Canadian dollar

It's a bit less than a USA dollar but for functioanl, think if a yen as a
penny ¨so 100 yen is a dollar.  It actually something like 95 cents just
now.

Now stateside that same soda would be 50cents or 75cents but in Japan at a
¨normal machine would be 120 yen to 150 yen (size dependant).
                                       
                                       xxcarol

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