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As I recall it was the Plaza Accords in the mid 1980s which cheapened the US dollar against European currencies. Reagan was the President and the US took drastic action to become more competitive. I was living in Switzerland at the time and our Canadian dollar got dragged down with the greenback. It was amazing how fast it happened.

Living in Canada, I see escorts who include Canadians who do a lot of business in the US and escorts from other countries who travel a lot in the US and only occasionally in Canada, which is when I see them. My impression is that these escorts do very well in their travels around the States, as I read the reviews of them posted on RM. They tend to visit the big markets in California, New York, Texas and Florida. The competition is fierce there but that doesn’t seem to put them off. It appears that is where the money is to be made. I would think that Europe is a different situation altogether. The cost of living there is very high and the exchange rates are not favourable. The US dollar is relatively cheap. That has been the case for many years now. I am old enough to remember when US and even Canadian dollars went a lot further in Switzerland, France and Germany. Spain and Italy were even cheaper. Then came the Euro and it started out cheap (about 89 cents) but went up and never looked back.

A fond memory I have is the first American Thanksgiving I celebrated in Fort Lauderdale over 20 years ago. I was invited by a friend I had met at the nude beach at Haulover in North Miami, where I was spending my winters. The dinner party organized by this gay couple was really quite spectacular, a sit down dinner in their spacious back yard with all of us gathered under a pergola. About 25 to 30 as I recall. Party favours for all, a wonderful turkey dinner and copious amounts of wine. And everyone was so friendly to include me in the conversation, not knowing any of them besides my friend. Just a great memory.

His pics are very enticing.

I always pay with 100’s and 50’s, taken from my bank. I keep the receipt and if there was ever an issue, I would go back to my bank and deal with them. Have never had a counterfeit issue in my many years of hiring.

My impression is that some escorts are still getting all the biz they want or can handle. I stay in touch with some of my regulars and as recently as yesterday one told me he is continuing his circuit around certain states in the US and doing well. Another left for the US from Canada a month ago and I expect he will be back shortly. He doesn’t advertise on RM any longer and just sees regular clients. While the Canada US border is closed at the land crossings, escorts and others can fly back and forth. On their return, they are supposed to quarantine in Canada for 14 days. I don’t think this is being strictly enforced though, but just by random phone calls.

Sounds almost biblical. The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

How does that work for you. Any extra mileage.

I wasn’t aware of the back story (forgive the pun) of these boy bands. I would only listen to their upbeat songs when they came on the radio while I was driving or at bars on the video screens which were so common in South Florida at the turn of the century. I just assumed given their popularity with young girls, as in my youth were the bands like the Beatles, that they had all become fabulously rich Off their music. This documentary shows that wasn’t true. Imagine, a $10,000 check for all their work and success! Perlman will go down in history as one of the infamous con-men. The pantheon of con-men will have to add an extension to accommodate even more recent examples.

Just checked. It was Chianti. I wouldn’t drink that wine with liver. LOL

Was that a line in Silence of the Lambs? It only occurred to me later.

Another thing about overnights is that the escorts frequently will correspond with me afterwards, even months later. With some, they become repeats. With others, they are so far away that we just stay in touch occasionally but its nice to hear how they are doing. And they seem interested in what i am doing too.

Goes well with a Merlot.

I just had to reply as calves liver and onions, along with sautéed mushrooms are a real delicacy which I enjoy from time to time. It’s got to be calves liver, the most tender of the cow livers or it’s no good. Try it some time. Make sure the liver is not overdone. ??

A year ago I got in touch on RM with an escort in the USA on the other side of the continent. We corresponded for almost a month, arranging a weekend in Montreal where I would send him the airfare but no deposit. He had been to Montreal before and had friends there that he was going to stay with after our date. Otherwise he couldn’t go because he didn’t have the financial means to travel that far. We grew trustful of each other, through our extensive correspondence and I took the trouble to contact a client of his on RM who vouched for his trust Worthiness . He arrived at the Montreal airport and I met him there and we went to a downtown hotel, where we stayed for the next two days. He lived up to everything he promised and I was pleased with our holiday together. The fee I paid him enabled him to have a two week holiday with his friends where he could afford to take them out to meals at restaurants and pay for drinks at bars, all courtesy of me. We both got a great deal.

Hilarious.

I’ve taken the trouble to read the reviews of Lucas on RM and they are numerous and mostly highly complimentary. I realize experiences can vary between escort and client but alleging an escort “stole” money from you is serious. At this point I still don’t understand how this “theft” occured. Looking at his reviews, I don’t see one that resembles your experience. When a client posts a negative review on RM, the escort has the option of responding. I have read many of these types of responses and sometimes the client comes off badly. On two occasions I have posted only mildly critical reviews on RM and the escorts in both cases objected. In one case I agreed to remove the review, and in the other case the escort got RM to remove it. In the latter case it was an encounter with two escorts, both porn stars, and the other agreed with me that the review I had posted was accurate. So, I think the best option for you is to post a review on RM. See what happens. Often, when the escort has been panned, they haven’t bothered to respond. The worst that can happen is that your review will disappear. LOL

I’m not sure this is the case in other parts of Canada, where English is the majority language spoken. Interest in the vaccine is high and is seen by most as the only way we are going to get out of this pandemic in a realistic fashion. The alternative, achieving herd immunity, would be too devastating to the population and health care system. I grew up in Montreal and lived there after my retirement for over a decade but am having trouble understanding why the French speaking population, who are the vast majority today, would be resistant to accepting a vaccine to protect themselves and their loved ones. I am old enough to remember when my oldest brother got polio but mercifully recovered and is today 78 years old And healthy. By the mid fifties, we got the polio vaccine and were spared the ravages that that disease can inflict, if you just remember FDR, who contracted polio as a relatively young man, ironically in Canada at Campobello, the Roosevelt summer home. My brother also contracted polio at our summer home, which was north of Montreal.

After watching the video just now for the first time, the comment I once read concerning Hemingway after his death came back to me: ”Amidst all the ruin, yet the beauty still remains”.

I was with Jay two months before he died. A really nice guy.

Manitoba is an interesting case. Early in the pandemic, when the majority of US cases were in the north-east states including New York, the mid-west states were doing well., Fast forward 6 months and the upper US Midwest states are a disaster. And they are right across the line from Manitoba. I imagine there are more people crossing the border into Manitoba from the US than there are travellers from Ontario, their next door neighbour, most of whom live at least a thousand kilometres from the Manitoba border. Simple geography And population spread.

You have summarized in a very comprehensive fashion everything I like and take advantage of in the NYT digital version. It costs me around $32 CDN a month after exchange rate is taken into account. A real bargain for information and entertainment all in one format that is easy to use. I have a digital subscription to Toronto’s Globe & Mail newspaper but the format is not half as good and is difficult to read easily and costs more. Go figure.

As a Canadian, the only US publication I read daily is the NYT. 20 years ago, when I was spending my winters in Miami, I also read the WSJ daily and other US publications Like the Miami Herald. After the financial meltdown in 2008, I lost interest in the WSJ as an apologist for Wall St. To balance my reading. I also listened to NPR on a daily basis. Today I only listen to it a few times a week. My political leanings are liberal but I do try to listen to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity sometimes, just to hear what the other side is saying undiluted. My television viewing has ended as on March as my old TV set died during the pandemic and when the shops were open again I had lost interest in the endless news about Trump’s latest outrages. I’ve never detected anti-semitism in the NYT, as opposed to criticism of the government of Israel and its policies, which is fair game and should not be conflated with anti-semitism. Of course, there may have been specific articles that contained an anti-Semitic tone but forgive me if I do not read every article. There is simply not enough time in my otherwise busy days. I grew up in a WASP family but became familiar with Jewish people at university, law school, and in my professional life. I made friends with them as easily as with other people of different backgrounds than my own. Here in Canada we live in a multi-cultural society and strive to be open to everyone. Of course there is intolerance here too, as in the US. The important thing is to keep people accountable for what they say and do and to speak up when it crosses the line.

Did he drive it all the way in? And, if so, did you require reconstructive surgery after??

Ps our transport minister is a former astronaut who has been to outer space a few times. He was heavily criticized after the second Max crash when he delayed like the Americans for an extra day in grounding the jet, when British and other major countries had all moved immediately to ground theirs. This time he is apparently not going to be caught off side again.