tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post3549215569061068684..comments2023-09-13T02:04:00.931-04:00Comments on Latvian-American Adventures & Opinions: Unexpected Riga Mall Outing & a Night in Kandava, LatviaDziesmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-68643919799636468932014-06-05T14:40:40.852-04:002014-06-05T14:40:40.852-04:00Maybe because I'd forgotten about... :) Once w...Maybe because I'd forgotten about... :) Once we figured it out, and could back out of that parking space at the mall, we were fine!Dziesmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-58414483049189177512014-06-05T13:37:17.861-04:002014-06-05T13:37:17.861-04:00You forget to say how we had to read the manual fo...You forget to say how we had to read the manual for the car to figure out how to get it into reverse! Bryan Mainhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16239098681364314040noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-61664246911750333642014-06-05T10:31:06.034-04:002014-06-05T10:31:06.034-04:00It was not too long after 9/11, maybe a year or tw...It was not too long after 9/11, maybe a year or two, and I was flying to Europe from Washington. While everyone - including flight attendants - is still seated, man a few rows ahead of me gets out of his seat. Flight attendant runs over, has to convince him to sit back down. He had a rather scary bewildered/wild look on his face. Later during the flight I realized he was no longer in his seat -- turns out he was in the back with the flight attendants, who then later apparently realized that he needed to be put off the flight. Naturally, we were across the Atlantic already. But we turned around, landed in Goose Bay, Canada in the middle of the night, were met by several police cars and ambulances, and he was led off the plane. Never found out what the deal was - whether he was ill or high or what - but let's just say it delayed the flight a fair amount, and added some completely unnecessary excitement.Dziesmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-59911990640622086652014-06-05T02:30:11.853-04:002014-06-05T02:30:11.853-04:00Looks pretty! Glad your suitcases arrived.
Now, p...Looks pretty! Glad your suitcases arrived.<br /><br />Now, please do tell the story about the crazy/high man on the plane. I'm intrigued!bevchenhttp://confuzzledom.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-16632968420687319902014-06-02T19:34:06.563-04:002014-06-02T19:34:06.563-04:00That's the way much of our first week felt -- ...That's the way much of our first week felt -- that we were the only ones around wherever we went! Other than the kids in the park, we did not see many other people in Kandava.Dziesmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-61236860504968339592014-06-02T19:33:18.345-04:002014-06-02T19:33:18.345-04:00New Zealand?!? Whoa! B is American who has travele...New Zealand?!? Whoa! B is American who has traveled quite a bit, but had of course never been to the Baltics.Dziesmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00563380904245865832noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-57530807147683444672014-06-02T15:55:00.962-04:002014-06-02T15:55:00.962-04:00Looks pretty - and luckily the sun came out eventu...Looks pretty - and luckily the sun came out eventually! But were you the only people in town!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5272601820794462116.post-40815994655807110602014-06-02T15:46:15.602-04:002014-06-02T15:46:15.602-04:00My first trip to Latvia was for two weeks... one o...My first trip to Latvia was for two weeks... one of those my suitcase spent in New Zealand :) That was the same trip I visited Kandava on, so it's been almost twenty years! We have relatives there, one a teacher at the music school (which in my understanding is quite famous in Latvia?). So B is American? Or American-Latvian in LV for the first time?Lienehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07479489443374383602noreply@blogger.com