[peel] In the clouds....

[Robf]

I remember when I heard that he was going to Peru that it was quite an 
ambitious trip for someone who hated flying..never thought it would end 
like this. Also - in one of the many old interviews i read yesterday he 
was recounting how he took "a mountain of tranquilizers" before he 
could get on the plane to New Zealand. I know that when your number 
is up then it's time to go - but you can't help wondering whether he'd 
still be here with us, if only for a short while longer, if he hadn't taken 
that trip..

> I've been thinking about the state of John's health towards
> the end. We know he was a strict vegetarian, but he was also
> diabetic. And diabetes significantly raises heart disease
> risks, as does excess weight. We know, or I know, that he
> had a tennis court and pool constructed at Peel acres (w/the
> toilet tissue commercial money.) But Shiela said he rarely
> used the court and never went in the pool.
> 
> A friend related to me today that he vacationed in Cuzco
> Peru a few years ago. He said it was the most high-altitude
> place he'd ever been to. He's originally from London. He
> said that when they got there he and his girlfriend, (in
> their late 20's) needed a full day of downtime just to get
> their strength back, strength sapped by the thin air.
> 
> A check of the encyclopedia says that Cuzco is 11,024 feet
> above sea level (3400 meters.) Ipswitch, by comparison, is
> 250 feet above sea level.
> 
> In the late 90's, I was working on a Cartoon Network show
> called Space Ghost. This was a talk show with a cartoon host
> and celebrity guests. As I had a London vacation coming up,
> they arranged to have me meet John at the CNN bureau off
> Tottenham Ct Rd to tape a one camera interview I would
> conduct. (He got paid $450, scale, and the interview has so
> far never been used.) The studio we used was four flights
> up, and the elevator was out. I was surprised how winded he
> was after just two flights. On the third landing he said in
> that genial half-joking tone of his," Tom if there is more
> than one flight to go the interview's off." We made it to
> the studio and once the red light came on he was just fine.
> 
> I hadn't really though about that till this week.
> 
> 
> 
> tom
> 
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