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"Bev" wrote in message ... Yoj wrote: My mother lives in Alaska. The mozzies are only bad there for about a month, and I've managed to miss them every time I visit, which is usually in August. I'm sure you'll enjoy the cruise. You'll see some beautiful country and some awesome glaciers and icebergs. You'll probably see some wildlife, too. -- Joy Life is what happens to you while you are planning to do something else. "Tish S" wrote in message om... Bon voyage Bev - hope you have a wonderful trip! Don't forget the mosquito repellant for Alaska, I gather that the blackflies and mozzies in Alaska are quite fierce! Tish happy for Bev and furiously scratching my itchy feet! Bev wrote in message ... We have just booked a cruise to Alaska and hope to meet members of the group who might be unlucky enough to be in our path lol. Here it is. We leave New Zealand on the 1st August and fly to San Francisco for 3 days then onto to Vancouver for three days then do the two week cruise ending at Fairbanks. From there (tentatively) we hope to fly to Las Vegas where we will make enough money to pay for the trip, rofl and from there to Burbank, have a few days in LA and fly home. Wheeeeeeeeee. Haven't told the cats yet!!! Thought they might have to go into a cattery but I think Kay (Ollie's x-slave) will be prepared to house-sit the kitties for the month we are away. She is between houses and wants to do a bit of house sitting for fun! We have been away for a few days and put the kitties in the dreaded cat house with Kay's daughter Mandy (she lives next door) in charge. Everything went swimmingly, the house is very cozy. Mandy thought seriously about letting them out but thought she might never catch them!! Bev Wildlife is always at the top of my priorities. I am getting very excited already, When we went on our trip to Ireland and did a tour through Sweden, etc. one of my nicest memories is of meeting Lena, her parents and of course delightful kitties, also Elisabet. I have already arranged to meet Junebug in Vancouver - three days there. Am looking forward to Las Vegas - we last visited there in 1980 so guess there will be big changes (John, we would love to meet you in Las Vegas). We have been to LA several times because we had some much loved cousins there, sadly our cousin is now deceased and his wife in her eighties. I don't know what her health is like - visitors may be too much for her so we may just centre ourselves at a motel and see everyone from there - would like to meet as many rpca people as we can. Incidentally we love America and Americans - people there have always been wonderful to us. We did a house exchange in Canada several years ago and found people there very stand-offish. The people in the houses next door hardly spoke to us and when we asked directions in Toronto there wasn't a smile in sight!!!! Must stop rambling, lol. New Zealand temperatures are temperate - here in Napier it is 15c average in winter (June, July and August). Spring is September October. Our summer temps rarely reach over 30c and are usually around 26c in January February. We don't get snow in Napier so it is quite an experience when we strike it anywhere else. Bev You will have fun in Alaska. My parents visited us there in August 1969. And were quite surprised that there were still patches of snow in the hills where we went camping. Big patches. My daughter was born on Labor Day, September 1, 1969. At the time my DH and my parents and I were hiking around on the Matanuska glacier east of Anchorage and making silly comments about how labor day would be a good day for our daughter to be born. We even have it on film. We were adopting and knew only that the next girl was ours. Vicki was busy back in Anchorage making her debut into the world. Jo |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 11:44:27 -0800, Bev wrote
(in article ): Wildlife is always at the top of my priorities. I am getting very excited already, When we went on our trip to Ireland and did a tour through Sweden, etc. one of my nicest memories is of meeting Lena, her parents and of course delightful kitties, also Elisabet. I have already arranged to meet Junebug in Vancouver - three days there. Am looking forward to Las Vegas - we last visited there in 1980 so guess there will be big changes (John, we would love to meet you in Las Vegas). We have been to LA several times because we had some much loved cousins there, sadly our cousin is now deceased and his wife in her eighties. I don't know what her health is like - visitors may be too much for her so we may just centre ourselves at a motel and see everyone from there - would like to meet as many rpca people as we can. Incidentally we love America and Americans - people there have always been wonderful to us. We did a house exchange in Canada several years ago and found people there very stand-offish. The people in the houses next door hardly spoke to us and when we asked directions in Toronto there wasn't a smile in sight!!!! Must stop rambling, lol. New Zealand temperatures are temperate - here in Napier it is 15c average in winter (June, July and August). Spring is September October. Our summer temps rarely reach over 30c and are usually around 26c in January February. We don't get snow in Napier so it is quite an experience when we strike it anywhere else. I don't know when you visited Vegas but in August if you think Australia summer temperatures I don't think you will be wrong. Figure about 105F/40.5C is the average high and it can get much worse. I'd love to meet you guys. And your right you will not know the place. |
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That sounds like a lot of fun! Hope it is wonderful, and lots of
West-Coast catslaves can get together with you. Sniff. Doesn't anyone ever come through Ohio??? Ginger-lyn On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 07:30:06 +1200, Bev wrote: We have just booked a cruise to Alaska and hope to meet members of the group who might be unlucky enough to be in our path lol. Here it is. We leave New Zealand on the 1st August and fly to San Francisco for 3 days then onto to Vancouver for three days then do the two week cruise ending at Fairbanks. From there (tentatively) we hope to fly to Las Vegas where we will make enough money to pay for the trip, rofl and from there to Burbank, have a few days in LA and fly home. Wheeeeeeeeee. Haven't told the cats yet!!! Thought they might have to go into a cattery but I think Kay (Ollie's x-slave) will be prepared to house-sit the kitties for the month we are away. She is between houses and wants to do a bit of house sitting for fun! We have been away for a few days and put the kitties in the dreaded cat house with Kay's daughter Mandy (she lives next door) in charge. Everything went swimmingly, the house is very cozy. Mandy thought seriously about letting them out but thought she might never catch them!! Bev -- I got rid of my husband. The cat was allergic. |
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On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:14:04 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)"
wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: On 27 Mar 2004 16:47:01 -0800, (Tish S) yodeled: Bon voyage Bev - hope you have a wonderful trip! Don't forget the mosquito repellant for Alaska, I gather that the blackflies and mozzies in Alaska are quite fierce! It's the state bird. Really? I thought that was Minnesota! (I remember the Paul Bunyan story about the bee who fell in love with a mosquito, and the next summer "the mosquitos all came equipped with stingers at both ends" - it sometimes felt like it!) Probably has a lot to do with lots of water. Isn't Minn also known as the state of 10,000 lakes? Never been there, but in springtime in Alaska, at least in Fairbanks when I was there, there's lots of water from the melting snow. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 07:21:05 GMT, "Yoj"
wrote: I've never noticed the humidity when I visited in the summer. Of course different areas may differ. Valdez doesn't get as hot as Fairbanks, for instance. In Valdez, if it's 80 F, it's hot! Fairbanks can get up into the 90's. Joy Can't remember now, after all it's been almost 30 years since I was stationed there, but seems like they told us there were 4 or 5 different climate zones - you have to remember Alaska is BIG. I was in Fairbanks, which is a long way from the coast. Like Joy said, it can get pretty warm in summer and cold in winter. Actually, winters are very dry, as I remember, really not that much snow, but nothing melts from Sept to March. Then, once it starts melting in the spring it turns kind of marshy until the runoff is complete, then dry again. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html |
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On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:37:45 -0800, Steve Touchstone wrote
(in article ): On Sun, 28 Mar 2004 07:21:05 GMT, "Yoj" wrote: I've never noticed the humidity when I visited in the summer. Of course different areas may differ. Valdez doesn't get as hot as Fairbanks, for instance. In Valdez, if it's 80 F, it's hot! Fairbanks can get up into the 90's. Joy Can't remember now, after all it's been almost 30 years since I was stationed there, but seems like they told us there were 4 or 5 different climate zones - you have to remember Alaska is BIG. I was in Fairbanks, which is a long way from the coast. Like Joy said, it can get pretty warm in summer and cold in winter. Actually, winters are very dry, as I remember, really not that much snow, but nothing melts from Sept to March. Then, once it starts melting in the spring it turns kind of marshy until the runoff is complete, then dry again. When I was in the Army a guy from Texas said Alaska can't be much bigger than Texas, another guy who just came from there who was also from Texas told him if you cut Alaska in half and made them both states Texas would be the third largest state. Curious, I looked it up and if you took two Texases out of Alaska it would leave a Florida. |
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John Biltz wrote: On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:11:32 -0800, EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote (in article ): Bev wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: Evelyn, I sure hope to meet LA members. I don't know how many live in LA. When we have been to LA in the past we have always stayed with my cousin in Burbank. We possibly will this time but as she is now in her eighties and I am not sure about her health we might just grab a motel and have people visit us there. When I have it all organised I will post our addy and phone number in LA. We won't be doing any driving in LA for obvious reasons, i.e. we drive on the other side of the road and traffic in LA terrifies me, lol. So people will have to visit us. I can sympathize! I learned to drive in LA, so that doesn't bother me (although I try to avoid freeways whenever possible, and find as I grow older I tend to limit any night driving). However, the car rental company would have to pay ME to drive in NYC (and even then, I'd refuse)! I had to drive briefly in Japan, they to drive on the wrong side of the road. I kept turning on the windshield wipers when I meant to give a turn signal and a traffic circle almost did me in. But what is really dangerous is you look in the wrong direction first out of habit at intersections. When I was in London a few years ago, I noticed that the pedestrian cross-walks by most of the hotels were posted with "LOOK RIGHT" signs. |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... I had to drive briefly in Japan, they to drive on the wrong side of the road. I kept turning on the windshield wipers when I meant to give a turn signal and a traffic circle almost did me in. But what is really dangerous is you look in the wrong direction first out of habit at intersections. When I was in London a few years ago, I noticed that the pedestrian cross-walks by most of the hotels were posted with "LOOK RIGHT" signs. Yes, that is one of their efforts to protect tourism. A great many tourists have stepped off the curb in front of busses and cars there, while carefully looking the other way. Jo |
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"Steve Touchstone" wrote in message
... On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 21:14:04 -0800, "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: Kreisleriana wrote: On 27 Mar 2004 16:47:01 -0800, (Tish S) yodeled: Bon voyage Bev - hope you have a wonderful trip! Don't forget the mosquito repellant for Alaska, I gather that the blackflies and mozzies in Alaska are quite fierce! It's the state bird. Really? I thought that was Minnesota! (I remember the Paul Bunyan story about the bee who fell in love with a mosquito, and the next summer "the mosquitos all came equipped with stingers at both ends" - it sometimes felt like it!) Probably has a lot to do with lots of water. Isn't Minn also known as the state of 10,000 lakes? Never been there, but in springtime in Alaska, at least in Fairbanks when I was there, there's lots of water from the melting snow. -- Steve Touchstone, faithful servant of Sammy, Little Bit and Rocky [remove Junk for email] Home Page: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/index.html Cat Pix: http://www.sirinet.net/~stouchst/animals.html Yes, standing water is what does the trick. When my mother moved from California to Alaska (at age 80), my brother and I drove up with her. This was in September. I couldn't believe all the standing water. There are lakes, puddles, and ponds everywhere! Melting snow has a lot to do with it, of course. Joy |
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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote in message ... Bev wrote: "EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote: Evelyn, I sure hope to meet LA members. I don't know how many live in LA. When we have been to LA in the past we have always stayed with my cousin in Burbank. We possibly will this time but as she is now in her eighties and I am not sure about her health we might just grab a motel and have people visit us there. When I have it all organised I will post our addy and phone number in LA. We won't be doing any driving in LA for obvious reasons, i.e. we drive on the other side of the road and traffic in LA terrifies me, lol. So people will have to visit us. I can sympathize! I learned to drive in LA, so that doesn't bother me (although I try to avoid freeways whenever possible, and find as I grow older I tend to limit any night driving). However, the car rental company would have to pay ME to drive in NYC (and even then, I'd refuse)! I'd guess that driving in LA *or* NYC would be a cakewalk compared to driving in Bangkok. I have only driven there twice, when Dennis first had his back operation last year. It was ok because it was mainly highway driving. But once you get off the highway and onto the smaller roads, it is SCARY!!! Mostly because they are completely oblivious to what is going on around them, fearless of death and mutilation, and also because of the swarms of motorbikes that weave through traffic. And if you get into an accident as a foreigner, it is *always* your fault, no matter what really happened. I do drive around here, to Pattaya or Rayong, etc. That is scary enough. But when Dennis is away and I go to Bangkok I take the bus. The only problem I have now is that I've become so used to driving on the left side of the road, I'd be afraid to drive on the right again! -- Britta Sandpaper kisses, a cuddle and a purr. I have an alarm clock that's covered in fur! Check out pictures of Vino at: http://photos.yahoo.com/badwilson click on the Vino album |
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