I'm outta here

**CorsairMac** · 09-20-2005, 08:30 PM

I know how much of a family we have become so I just wanted to let anyone that wanted to know that I"m leaving tomorrow for 2 1/2 wks on my long-planned trip to Hungary.

Everyone ride well, ride safe, keep the rubber side down.......and know ya'll will be with me in my thoughts while I'm off galivantin around Eastern Europe! wheeeeeeeeeee

(Skibum: here's your chance to pass me in the team standings over on BJ!)

Later All!!

**Trekhawk** · 09-20-2005, 09:26 PM

Originally Posted by CorsairMac

I know how much of a family we have become so I just wanted to let anyone that wanted to know that I"m leaving tomorrow for 2 1/2 wks on my long-planned trip to Hungary.
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Hey Corsair - Have a safe fun trip. Look forward to hearing about it when you get back.

**snapdragen** · 09-20-2005, 09:37 PM

Have a great time! We want stories when you get home.

**bouncybouncy** · 09-21-2005, 04:27 AM

no stories without pictures

Have a great trip!!!!

**shewhobikes** · 09-21-2005, 04:28 AM

But have fun and be safe!

**skibum** · 09-21-2005, 04:56 AM

Originally Posted by CorsairMac

(Skibum: here's your chance to pass me in the team standings over on BJ!)

If I pass you, it won't be for long. It's getting to be that time of the year with the shorter days and some other activities (soccer on the weekends) that my riding volume falls off a little. I'm sure you'll catch back up when you return.

Have a great trip. It sounds fabulous!!

**Surlygirl** · 09-21-2005, 05:12 AM

Have fun CorsairMac.

**SalsaMTB** · 09-21-2005, 05:16 AM

Have a wonderful time!

**doorah** · 09-21-2005, 05:40 AM

We will miss you, but I for one will be smiling every time I think of you

Be safe and ENJOY!

~doorah~

**Pedal Wench** · 09-21-2005, 08:39 AM

Have a great time - we want pictures and a complete trip report when you get back!

(great, now I'll have Skibum on my bikejournal tail - and when her weather changes, I'm pretty sure mine will too

)

**RedCanny** · 10-10-2005, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by CorsairMac

I know how much of a family we have become so I just wanted to let anyone that wanted to know that I"m leaving tomorrow for 2 1/2 wks on my long-planned trip to Hungary.

HEY CMac, I see that you appear to be back. How was your trip???

**CorsairMac** · 10-10-2005, 02:43 PM

It was awesome! Truly the trip of a lifetime. It was everything I thought it would be - and nothing like I thought it would be. I didn't do any riding - it was a planned food and wine tour and there was just never any time. Plus I was there with my father and sister neither of whom ride. to AB: I was in Budapest, Egar, Pecs, and Balakonybel (close to Lake Balaton).
I walked in tombs that were built in the 4th century, visited a horse farm that is preserving the horsemanship skills that Hungary was reknown for in it's early years, learned about the horror and the sadness that was Communism, and marvelled at how much they as a people have survived over the centuries and how far they have travelled since the "transition". They are a very fierce people (guess that's where I get it from

) and a very proud people; and they are working very hard to restore and/or save everything that defines who they are - the good and the bad. I drank wine that was truly the nectar of the Gods and ate food that could have been served in the best houses in Europe. I laughed at the differences in our languagues and was actually reading Hungarian by the time I had to come home. (ok...I have Not a clue what I was reading.......but it sure Sounded like I knew it!) There were cities that were so old and so well-preserved it took your breath away, and cities that were so ugly it made you bow your head in sadness. We ate at a restaurant with a thatched roof in a village of wonderful homes with thatched roofs, then drove through a city of communistic concrete towers. We drove on roads that were in excellent shape which we shared with sports cars, semis, and horse and wagon. We saw centuries old buildings butted right up against ugly concrete towers. The contradictions were almost alien to Americans yet is part of the Hungarians everyday life. It was truly a trip that will not be forgotten, and yet - the Hungary I saw over the past 2 weeks will not be the same Hungary in the next 5 yrs, or the next 10. It was exactly what I had expected - and nothing at all like I had expected, and I would do it again.

**wabisabi** · 10-10-2005, 02:51 PM

Sounds like a great trip, and glad to see that you really got around the country. I've only been in Budapest and on the trains. You probably learned that they had the first continental subway system (and aren't some of the trains OLD?). One does tend to develop your own pronounciation of the language--I think the closest language is Norwegian (I think?). You are so right on about the contrasts there. (My background is also part Austro-Hungarian)

**bikerchick68** · 10-10-2005, 03:00 PM

corsair! Good to have you back on the boards... man, that trip sounds absolutely wonderful... I am always amazed at the history of places I visit... enthralled really...

I sure hope you will post some pics or an album... I would love to travel to Hungary this year thru your eyes! Glad it was such a wonderful trip.

**chick on a bike** · 10-10-2005, 03:38 PM

Wow...........that trip sounds like it was absolutely increadible...How awesome!

I'm glad that it went so well for you; now I'm jealous! *lol* I wanna go! ^^ Though too bad that you didn't get to go riding, that would have made the trip just that much better.

*he he*

Glad to have you back and in one piece! ~hugs to you~

~Liz

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