A Note From Sarah

Posted on November 21, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

As Marideth states in  this post, you can easily be a virtual traveller and keep up with her (hopefully) daily or near so posts about the goings on while she is in Europe.

The best and easiest way to participate with this is to subscribe. If you scroll all the way to the bottom of this or any other page, you will see in the third column from the left “Subscribe to the Blog”. Under it is a blank bar to put your e mail address. You will not be spammed or receive any junque. What will happen is you will get an e mail notification every time Marideth posts on her blog. This will save you from going there looking for new content when there is none. You’ll know she has posted something new because you get an e mail saying so! You always have the option of unsubscribing any time you like.

So, join the other virtual travelers to Europe via Maridethsisco.com!

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Be a Virtual Passenger!

Posted on November 21, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

It seems like everywhere I go these days, there is always someone who has heard about my upcoming Italy trip and says things like  “Take me!” or “Put me in your suitcase” and such. Years ago, when I made a six-week-long trip to Costa Rica on behalf of Frank Martin III and the West Plains Daily Quill, people who heard where I was going had much the same response. Then, what I did was to see if there was a way to take everyone along virtually, which I ultimately did by posting almost daily reports from whatever internet cafe I could find.

One such was on a roadside porch attached to a tiny cabin where a tall German fellow had one computer hooked to the internet, a George Forman grill for hamburgers, an ice chest for beer and sodas and a shelf of paperbacks you could rent for 2 Colones (about 54 cents) a week. Another was in a family’s garage with two computers for hire at 1 Colone per hour, where I typed missives home while a small gaggle of teenage boys giggled over dirty pictures they were calling up on the other screen.

By far the handiest and most comfortable was a dark little streetcorner storefront in San Jose that had five computers hooked to a central hub and featured snacks and drinks. I got to be such a familiar face there that they had my diet Coke in a glass with ice at my elbow when I sat down.

I’ll attempt to do the same on this trip. Hopefully the hotel has a hookup accessible to guests. If not, there’s bound to be one nearby. Probably won’t be able to send any pictures until I get back stateside, but I’ll do my best.

Join me now if you like. Think up some questions to ask, or suggest foods or other things I should be bringing home. Any other traveler’s tips would be greatly appreciated as well. I’ll need all the help I can get.

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What to eat? What to buy? What to eat?

Posted on November 20, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

I’ve been studying the guidebooks for what to expect in Torino, besides the Alps towering over everything. It’s not really pasta country, but leans more toward rice and grains, and French-style sauces, and Swiss-style meat dishes. And cheese. No, I said that wrong.  And CHEE-eeese. Handmade, from all reports, and puh-lenty of it. Oh yeah, and it’s apparently the ancestral home of the white truffle (the best kind, or so they say). Never having tried truffles, at least the real kind, I’m anticipating our meeting with a fair mix of awe and dread. What if they’re a thousand dollars a pound and I don’t like ’em. Worse, what if I find them irresistible, and can’t afford to bring any home???

Am I obsessing? About food? You betcha. But maybe you can help. Surely there are those of you reading this who have been to Italy, or the Mediterranean, and who would know what the things made there that one should seek out and come home with a bag full of. Maybe it’s truffles. Or olive oil soap, or funny-looking garden tools. Whatever. Write and tell me what I should be looking for down all those alpine piedmont country lanes. I’ll do my best.

 

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Here Comes the Sun

Posted on November 20, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Holy Romeo! I’m a week away from flying to Italy, and… well, I guess everything’s pretty much on schedule except some last minute business like recording my little radio show and counting my pills. Huh?

It’s moments like these that remind me I have a noticeably irregular life. Most folks are packing wash-and-wears from Land’s End and buying passport wallets. I’m good with that.

But once those things are done I have to remember to do my show, and remember that, movie status notwithstanding, I have a borderline-elderly, ill-treated body that needs its several meds to make sure it gets back in one piece, still breathing and able to put captions on all those photos I’ll be sending you.

Oh, and there’s the CD party tomorrow. Don’t get me wrong. It’s all been fun and continues to be so. But this morning, it’s a little overwhelming, too.

Think I’ll make a cup of coffee and go sing a couple choruses of “Here Comes the Sun.” Care to join me?.

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The Saga of Euro-Asia

Posted on November 19, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Well, don’t things get forever squirrelly-er. First we were going to Georgia, the republic of, and then we weren’t. Then got word it was back on again. Now we hear from the Georgians that the U.S. Embassy says no. But the State Department says they didn’t say anything. Now it turns out that the problem is with the Georgian embassy, although the film festival people evidently still think it’s us. Are you lost yet?

Anyway, our congressional folks are emailing the Georgians at their embassy in Washington as well as at home in Georgia to see if they can get it sorted out. Don’t touch that dial.

 

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Off to Italy and Places Even Further!

Posted on November 17, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress
After several waits — one for the passport, another for travel plans to be finalized, and now at last word from Georgia (the republic of) that they’re expecting me, the Europe/Asia leg of the year-long Winter’s Bone trip is beginning to materialize. I am Woo-Hooing all over the place. What an opportunity. What a challenge. What Eeek factor. I mean, I’m 67 years old and have never been farther away from home than a jaunt to Costa Rica a few years back.
And here I was worried that I can’t speak Italian. Hell, Georgie doesn’t even use the same alphabet! What fun.  I can hardly wait. But this wait is a good one, because it offers time to get the house in shape, pack sensibly and rest up for the trip. At least that’s the theory. What do they eat in Georgia, anyway? I’m nearly sure it’s not grits and gravy. Any thoughts?

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Marideth Sisco at Torino International Film Festival in Italy

Posted on November 10, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Attention Winter’s Bone and Winter’s Bone Music fans in Europe! I will be at the Torino International Film Festival for the screening of Wnter’s Bone on Nov. 30 (and a few days before and after). I WILL BRING COPIES OF THE SOUNDTRACK CDs with me. If you can make it to town for part of the festival, or just to visit, I’d love to see you. More contact info, etc. as it becomes available.

Much is stirring here at the farm as we prepare for colder weather and get ready for the trip across the pond. And in between, no less significant, is the St. Louis International Film Festival, where Winter’s Bone will be screening Sunday night, Nov. 14 at Brown Hall auditorium on the Washington University campus. Hope to see you St. Louis fans there. I WILL HAVE WINTER’S BONE soundtrack CDs with me. I always love my trips to St. Louis, as the city is full of all things satisfyingly urban – and most of them easy to get to. I predict I’ll come back with a boatload (well, a Geo Prizm load, at least) of stuff from Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s etc., and with a head full of music, art and good coffee. What’s not to like, ‘cept for traffic.
But enough of city stuff. I gotta go get more wood into the woodbox before I take off for town. It’s the Ozarks, still. Hope to see you in St. Louie, Louie.
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