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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:06:30 -0500, "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote:

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>"The Re'vr''ddd" <reniggade@anglikkkoon.com.za> wrote in message
>news:453917ef.29662622@news.onetel.net.uk...
>> On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 11:30:01 -0500, "DoD" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> >"The Re'vr''ddd" <reniggade@anglikkkoon.com.za> wrote in message
>> >news:4538e814.17411236@news.onetel.net.uk...:
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>> >> >Sounds like a very bleak place.
>> >>
>> >> It was even worse in Idi Amin's day.   It had been going downhill ever
>> >> since the B'ritish left.
>> >
>> >The pictures that I have seen of lake Victoria looked very pretty. Did
>you
>> >get to tour around it while you were there in Kampala?
>>
>> Yes, indeed.   Beware of the crocs.
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>I would imagine there is all kinds of creatures that you would have to be
>keenly aware of.

Especially the people.   LOL

>> >Maybe in central America.... But I heard that in India, they are
>deputizing
>> >cobras... Now ain't that something?
>>
>> I borrowed some Indian's cobra for a photograph in Bombay once.  LOL
>
>Did you handle it yourself? Was it defanged?

It may have been defanged.  I didn't ask.  And I didn't try to touch
it.

>> >> >> I did have a lucky escape, though.  I'd just come up from El
>Salvador
>> >> >> where the shit had started to hit the fan bigtime.  LOL
>> >> >
>> >> >Did you know that ahead of time and you just made your escape, or was
>it
>> >> >just by chance that you left in time?
>> >>
>> >> I was in Santa Ana when the shit hit the fan in San Salvador.
>> >> Fortunately, I had taken the precaution of getting a visa for
>> >> Guatemala and it was only a question of getting to the border.   There
>> >> were rebels in the area but I made it.   I didn't really feel safe
>> >> until I got to Belize (formerly B'ritish Honduras).
>> >
>> >I am assuming that you were there in 1980? Were you just touring the
>place
>> >or were you working?
>>
>> 1980 was Nicaragua - slap bang in the middle of the Sandinista
>> revolution.  LOL
>
>It was also when the civil war started in El Salvador. That is what I
>thought you were talking about. Romero was assasinated in 1980...

There were ongoing disturbances in El Salvador throughout the 80s and
into the early 90s.

>> This was a bit later than that.  Just passing through, minding my own
>> business.
>
>So you were just being a tourist and not on any business....

Pretty much.