#27186
06/26/2001 11:09 PM
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just deserts..... hehehe Whatever happens, don't pull a Thelma & Louise on us, please! 
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#27187
06/27/2001 2:46 PM
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Part the thirteenth is now available ...
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#27188
07/03/2001 4:32 AM
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#27189
07/06/2001 2:09 PM
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I'll do our Kiwi friend a favor and let y'all know that I found Part 15 posted. Do check out his map link at the top too - quite impressive!
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#27190
07/09/2001 3:40 AM
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What does it mean?
It means read the previous posts, old son.
PART THE SIXTEENTH is now available for your rancour.
Jackie is leaning over my shoulder as I type this. Yep, folks, finally made it to Looah'ville!
Cheers
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#27191
07/14/2001 8:23 PM
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From Bacchus-Marsh:
Thank you for that, Jackie. Very much.
You're more than welcome, Sweetie. No one could ask for more conscientious, considerate, courteous, helpful,
and appreciative guests than you-all were. Thank you for the honor. It was a total lark from beginning to end.
Enjoy the rest of your trip, and be careful.
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#27192
07/16/2001 2:29 AM
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 And Part 17 is now up for your consideration ... 
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#27193
07/18/2001 1:34 PM
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I'm glad to see you've returned the Yoopers' homeland to them, but what, pray tell, have you done with Lake Superior, my dear CapK?
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#27194
07/18/2001 3:59 PM
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Pooh-Bah
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WOOOHOOOO! Annland has made the map! Thanks, CapK.
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#27195
07/18/2001 5:34 PM
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This latest installment floors me... not 'cause I had anything to do with it... but that the "international" impressionists that make Chicago a gangster town could really use some help, as they have been slacking off lately.
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#27196
07/19/2001 6:09 PM
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newbie
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Capt K
Thanks for the chronicles I've been printing them to bring home for Dad & my girls to read. It's been great fun the girls read them out loud, then I have to explain why I'm laughing.
CJ
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#27197
07/20/2001 2:00 AM
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I'm glad to see you've returned the Yoopers' homeland to them, but what, pray tell, have you done with Lake Superior, my dear CapK?
When the US invades Canada and adds the north shore of Superior to its dominions as the 51st state, I will be the very first to include the north shore of Superior into the map of the US.
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#27198
07/20/2001 2:02 AM
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CJ, the nineteeth instalment should be available to you by midnight EST.
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#27199
07/20/2001 4:32 AM
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When the US invades Canada and adds the north shore of Superior to its dominions as the 51st state, I will be the very first to include the north shore of Superior into the map of the US.all these years we've been going to the "North Shore" to escape the summer heat in Minneapolis, and now I learn I should have been looking out for immigration officials?! actually, it was the 4th of July celebrations in Grand Marais that really threw me off....
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#27200
07/20/2001 12:03 PM
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include the north shore of Superior into the map of the US
There's an old geography trivia question: What pairs of states are adjacent both geographically and alphabetically? Technically one of the answers should be Michigan and Minnesota, but I wouldn't advise trying to drive it; Lake Superior can be awfully deep and awfully cold.
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#27201
07/20/2001 12:24 PM
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Michigan and Minnesota, but I wouldn't advise trying to drive itI have just been planning a trip to the Isle of Wight (Proms at Osborne House, tomorrow evening so we are spending the whole day there) and while trying to find a particular attraction on the Internet map, asked for driving instructions from my house in Portsmouth. It directs me precisely to the Isle of Wight ferry terminal in Portsmouth, without calling it such, and then says "take the unnamed road for 6 miles to Ryde!". Which reminds me of the Autoroute CD which provided up to 4 alternate routes for journeys. The 4th alternative for Portsmouth to Warwick involved taking one ferry across to the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth and one back to Southampton, replacing 30 miles of motorway by two ferries and 30 miles of local roads! Since the ferry ride to the Isle of Wight is generally reckoned as one of the most expensive per mile in the world  , I never did try that. Rod
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#27202
07/20/2001 1:12 PM
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I don't know if http://mapquest.com has ever gotten a mention, but. michigan doesn't quite get any north shore -- click on "big map" and "zoom out". okay, wow, I removed that wide link just for you -- the whole point of which was to show that there are 120+ american miles of the north shore of lake superior inside the great state (not province) of minnesota.well, that's very wide -- I'll remove it later....
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#27203
07/20/2001 1:48 PM
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The US EPA has a number of GIS maps and satelite images-- many that are downloadable. http://www.great-lakes.net/gis/maps/ most are not as clear on state divisions as the map quest but it has a great collection of maps..and images..
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#27204
07/21/2001 3:01 PM
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What happened?
It seems to have a mind of its own, this Post space .
WIDE makes me dizzy. Goodby!
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#27205
07/21/2001 5:31 PM
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wow,
Two posts above yours tsuwm posted a very long URL. That is what widened the screen. He said he'd come back to fix it later.
Your faithful translator,
ASp
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#27206
07/22/2001 2:42 PM
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okay, wow, I removed that wide link just for you
Oh, tsuwm, you dear man. Thank you for the change. And AnnaS for your note. The change did make everything go back to usual width again.
What I do not understand is how a post in the middle of a "page" can affect the posts before it, too!
One of AWAD's little mysteries!
Thank you again, tsuwm, for your consideration.
And my apologies to everyone now wondering what happened to tsuwm's nifty link.
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#27207
07/22/2001 2:56 PM
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wow, The page widens to accomodate the link. Therefore all posts above and below will be widened accordingly. I don't know of any way to architect ahem a web page so that it widens only on the specific post. Think newspaper columns and you'll understand  Oh. And tsuwm's nifty link is still there. Just narrower
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#27208
07/23/2001 7:05 AM
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Somebody sent me a site showing the distance between the US and Jakarta. It did include a link for driving directions but not being able to drive anyway I didn't bother to LIU.
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#27209
07/23/2001 7:36 AM
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#27210
07/23/2001 8:16 AM
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Would it not also need a ferry between Kamchatka, the Aleutians, and Alaska?
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#27211
07/23/2001 8:44 AM
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#27212
07/23/2001 10:35 AM
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C'mon, you guys! All you'd need to do, Bingley, is drive onto the long-distance ferry, and come right on over. Though you do have to transfer after being put ashore on Australia and then driving over the bridge to New Zealand, right, CapK?
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#27213
07/23/2001 1:47 PM
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Of course. Driving to the US is entirely possible. What am I saying?
Anyway, the next instalment of our ongoing saga has now been chiselled in runes on the Internet wall. You have 2,000 years to read it before wind and the other effluxions of time remove it from sight ...
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#27214
07/24/2001 4:27 AM
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Max, dear, I came to the tropics because the English winter was too much for me. A "hard enough" winter in the Aleutians does not bear thinking of. Bingley
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#27215
07/25/2001 1:13 AM
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Capital Kiwi>>>>
You have 2,000 years to read it before wind and the other effluxions of time remove it from sight ...
2,000 years? Really?
My first grandchild just came into our life 3 days ago and I only have eyes for her right now, so I hope I have that much time to catch up with your superb travel journals.
This is really good news. Then I will be able to reread the complete series in some future time. Maybe when I get off this "graniness" wagon.
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#27216
07/26/2001 3:37 AM
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Well, WC, congratulations on your state of granniness. I'm told that it's the same every time, but I can't speak from experience. Enjoy!
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#27217
07/27/2001 8:32 PM
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... is now up for your perusal ...
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#27218
07/31/2001 9:48 AM
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CK, I am still enjoying your travelogues immensely. A colleague just passed me a link you might enjoy: http://dharmabum90.homestead.com/quotes.htmlTake care. Rod
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#27219
07/31/2001 1:14 PM
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RodW : that is a neat link. Wasted (?) a fun half hour there.
Cap K should have several pithy sayings to contribute!
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#27220
07/31/2001 2:08 PM
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Are residents of Annland called Annlanders?
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#27221
08/04/2001 2:54 AM
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Are residents of Annland called Annlanders?
Yes, and in exactly the same way as residents of Lapland are called Lapdancers ...
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#27222
08/04/2001 3:01 AM
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RodW : that is a neat link. Wasted (?) a fun half hour there.
Cap K should have several pithy sayings to contribute!
And I would, if I had time, which I don't. We're tourists, not travellers, make no mistake about it. On this trip we have had five dates about which we had to be very clear over a period of two months. That's four too many for a real traveller.
Anyone can sleep in a car on an interstate. It takes real style to be able to sleep on Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah Valley.
Yuppie tourists like us have a slightly different set of skills.
We need to be able to identify a possible motel location, sight unseen, in a town we've never been to before we get there by correlating the addresses of known motels.
We need to be able to identify business loops by deduction on a 4 x 4 inset map of a city.
We're able to deduce the amount of activity in a town by the number of cars parked outside the local Super 8 motel and thereby determine what kind of room rate we can negotiate.
And on, and on.
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08/04/2001 3:03 AM
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are now available. Map is updated. Watch the home page for an exciting new development soon.
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#27224
08/06/2001 2:50 AM
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08/07/2001 2:38 AM
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We're tourists, not travellers
I know tourists, and Capital Kiwi, you're no tourist.
Tourists don't write fantastic journals, they usually just write "Wish you were here" on a skimpy postcard and go on their merry way.
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