darn you Civitas

Hyperion · July 25, 2013 6:26AM

and your tasty tempting morsels...

Not mine, and I have no connection to civitas except to tell them to stop distracting me from my home purchase saving

How COOL!

lordmarcovan · July 25, 2013 9:30AM

Wow. Never noticed that design before.

I have some vivid memories of the harbor at Mombasa, when I was a little kid disembarking from a transatlantic journey on a Greek freighter.

My family was to live in Africa for the following year. All of our belongings were unloaded and lowered down the towering sides of the big ship, into these little putt-putt lighter boats that ferried all the cargo to shore. These little boats were so overloaded, there was only about six or eight inches of freeboard between the waterline and the gunwales of the boat, and the wake from the big ships threatened to swamp us and all of our belongings. Scary and thrilling stuff when you're six years old.

That was a long time ago. In fact, it was so long ago, maybe I spent one of those coins.