mtfester@netMAPSONscape.net wrote:
> tm <tm@tmoero.invalid> wrote:
>> Kevin Wayne Williams wrote:
>>> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>
>>>> What's Hall's Creek? Is that like Skid Row?
>
>>> It's a town in Western Australia. When I passed through, the
>>> population was wandering aimlessly, drunk. The only sign I saw of
>>> humanity was two people making sure that their buddy was standing
>>> up while he vomited so that he wouldn't get himself messy. It
>>> looked like one of the zombie crowd scenes from "Night of the
>>> Living Dead".
>
>> See, this is the problem with travelogs. They promise picturesque and
>> it turns out to be a bus stop Burger King, they call it quaint and
>> traditional and you sleep on the floor, you say 'population' and
>> 'crowd', but then- 'the only sign of humanity was two people'.
>
>> If it's like Market Street in San Francisco, just sad and urine
>> smelling, i can recreate that here without leaving the house.
>
> No, no, there's a Nordstrom's, too.

The urine smell refers to a 4 block section of Market Street, just West of
Nordstrums.