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I travelled in Europe for an extended period two summers in a row in 02 and 03 (about 2 months each time), although not Western, but Central Europe -- Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, which was my dream at the time. Taught English in Krakow for a month, for which I was ggiven room and board but no money, but then gave me and the other teachers a week's trip around the country to various cities and towns big and small on their dime with all food paid for. I had been tutoring Poles in NYC in the early 90s and had some Hungarian friends, so via some phone calls and complicated entanglements was able to always have someone somewhere put me up and show me around. It was magical, particularly taking a night train from Poland to Budapest in first class (which was like 30 American dollars at the time)...a Russian was in my compartment for part of the time, and when at the Slovak border, classic uniformed soldiers with machine guns and big dogs came aboard and really gave the Russian a hard time!

It was an awesome adventure with all sorts of components, a dream of mine I fulfilled with some effort and ultimately without spending much money at all, and I stretched it out 2 years in a row, so it is proof these things can be done.

Still want to hit London, Paris, etc., though for some reason living there for an extended period doesn't excite me; with a Polish wife I'd like to actually head back to Poland and spend a year doing something perhaps, get another crack at the country. I don't think she'd be opposed, but with the baby...

Would like to get a screenplay produced, yes. I've gotten paid for a few things, wrote a porno (don't ask -- it wasn't a porno when I wrote it), got a New York Foundation of the Arts grant for a script, but nothing produced with everyone on board getting paid...Again, doable, just gotta keep putting the sweat in...

Already made love to an Asian woman, back in the day. It was fine, although I prefer European women...thinking back, what I find most exciting in retrospect was her taking me to all the cool Chinese restaurants in Manhattan and Flushing that didn't even have signs in English and served stuff off the menu to people who could speak the language...but I'm married (happily so), so I'm just hoping for health for the wife. Those kinda fantasies are definitely in the rear-view mirror for me.

I'd also like to live a spell in San Francisco; love that town.

Oh, and in the not-likely-to-be-done-anytime-soon-catagory, I always wanted to pilot the Staten Island Ferry!

You must run in different circles than me.