sick as a dog on the container ship voyage. It's just about impossible to avoid some digestive infection.

SP, I didn't realize you were planning on running through Latin America. If you are going to make the trip around the horn, by all means look me up. I'm just one of the regular, quiet lurkers here, but the Agonist has been my homepage for at least 5 years now, so I'd love to offer some payback in the form of south Chilean hospitality. If Puerto Chacabuco (look for it in a fjord halfway between Punta Arenas and Puerto Montt) is on your route, send me an email and I'll set up some activities along the Austral Highway for you. Regards, David.

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You've read Perelman's stories about his world travels, right? Howlingly funny, and he did a short journey on a freighter just because.

Westward Ho, Eastward Ha, and a lot of other compilations have several pieces about some journey.

Some background: he and Dorothy Parker invented the New Yorker magazine comedy piece in the 40's. Some poll of famous writers on "who do you read just for fun" came up with P.G. Wodehouse and Perelman as first and second place. The man's vocabulary was acrobatic and he often used words wrongly but still fittingly. They should have meant what he said. "A notorious usufruct" being a fine example.

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