Re: RC: Manfred and Mongolia

[Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>]

>Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 22:34:11 -0700
>To: buytheline@softcome.net
>From: Nancy DuPont <Htrails@Earthlink.net>
>Subject: Re: RC:  Manfred and Mongolia
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>I also rode with him and followed his "dream" A world without borders.
There was a good story about him both in the August Ride Magazine and in the
Friday August 6 San Francisco Chronicle.
>
>At 05:48 PM 8/27/99 -0700, you wrote:
>>Sandy Rovane buytheline@softcome.net
>>Manfred has had a problem in our country because of our highways, gates,
private property and the fact that we have a freeway system instead of a
road system.  He got across Mongolia because his drivers, ladden with Vodka
cost him $170. per month.  Is there anyone here willing to work for those
wages.  I don't think do. He is just a little naive about his travels and I
asked him about security and he said "what do I have to steal"  I understand
that he is now riding highway 50 and another one of his answeres to getting
his rig moved was "I'll just take the bus back and pick it up."   Sure!  We
live in a country that is so vehicle, highway, privacy conscious that it is
almost impossible for any one in a foreign space to think something could be
so difficult.  When I told him he could come into the house when we were
gone he was totally aghast that anyone would allow someone they don't know
to enter their house when they weren't home. I told him, this is American.
So why is it so hard for him to travel here?  Thanks for everyone who has
helped him so far.  Go see Forrest Gump and maybe you could understand.
Pretty is as pretty does. This is just my two cents and I apoligize if I am
being rude.  I lived and rode with him and his horse for 7 days and grew
fond of his cream.  I world without borders. 
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