got a minute? - humorous travel tales and tips

By Robert Sarnoff

got a minute? - humorous travel tales and tips is chock full of the author's anecdotes, 'takes' on vacations, vacationers, and his love of the human comedy. Punctuating the happy text are some eighty drawings, paintings and mixed media works of art.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Apr 15, 2011
• ISBN: 9781617924712

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got a minute?

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Humorous Vacation Tales & Tips

Written and Illustrated by Robert Sarnoff

got a minute?

Humorous Vacation Tales & Tips

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Copyright © 2011 by Robert Sarnoff

All illustrations, including cover art, copyright © 2011 by Robert Sarnoff

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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the author or publisher.

Dedicated to my first wife Lynda, my travel companion and designated driver.

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Contents

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Vacations

Sunny Spain

B&H

ENADALERT

Jury Duty (Determining Fate)

It’s Snowing Up North

CRUISIN’

You Got To Ring Them Bells

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Vacations

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I guess it all started on The Champs Elysees in Paris.

My stomach suddenly quit and I found myself in every salle de bain along the route.

I plopped myself down at an outdoor café and wrote:

I’m too loose to trek.

Since that day I’ve documented all my trips…here, there, and everywhere…in one form (art) or another (notes).

Wish you were here,

Robert Sarnoff

Robert Sarnoff

Everybody needs a little time away, a break from the everyday hum-drum world.

So we sail away on cruises to The Bahamas or Alaska, fly to far off lands like Bali, Bangkok and Tahiti, drive cross country, to see the magnificent Grand Canyon, The Painted Desert and San Francisco. We fly/drive through Tuscany’s, Chianti, Florence, and make our way to San Giovanni.

We all need these days of rest, these adventurous sabbaticals and holidays to ease our minds and enjoy this precious and wonderful life.

  In addition to my occasional ventures to far away lands, I sometimes like to rest my oars in familiar surroundings, soaking in everyday sites and everyday people as quaint, and quirky and new as those in Zijuatenejo. The nearby Polish restaurant and its challah dunkers, the dentist’s waiting room filled with anxious toothachers, the hustle and bustle of the airport, the sleeping airplane flyers, and the every four year jury duty experience complete with New York’s melting pot, are sources for some of my mini vacations.

I love these quiet respites and I’d like to share them with you.

Do you have a minute?

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Sunny Spain

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Mimes, Wines, Paradors, Villa Pinqsnayl, Oolie and the Drowning Chilean

Seville, Spain, August 9th, my wife, Lynda’s birthday. Lynda and I partaking of Mediterranean culinary delights, ordered roast suckling pig. The owner, with a beautiful gesture, honored her with the head. She took one look at the pig’s milky eye taking one last look at her. She gulped, smiled, nodded her appreciation, slowly picked up her knife and fork and partook of the delicacy.

Lesson: When in Seville!

Wine was twenty-five cents. Coke a dollar. We sang Veeno-tinto all the way home.

The beautiful, quaint hotel, all marble and stone, kept in the cool. Plants, flowers and running water added fragrance and comfort. Our big room had a shower in the corner. No curtain, no glass enclosure, just a shower-head poking out from the ceiling. The cascading water bounced off our bodies. The tributaries flowed to a