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RE: Honoring Comanche Veterans
Congratulations Lonnie!
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Orion
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05/19/12 10:51am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: What have I forgotten?
Make sure that you have adequate medical insurance, our health services do not cover foreigners.
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Orion
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05/10/12 10:30am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Rachel NV
The Ale-Inn ? is there, right in the centre of town! It is memorable for only one reason, the worst burger I have ever had on this side of the Atlantic, and the second worst in the world!
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Orion
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05/09/12 11:38pm |
Roads and Routes
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RE: A video of the Auroa Borialis..Northern Lights
That is by far my favourite Aurora video! I just love the music as well, very haunting.
After a quiet spell lasting a few weeks, the Sun is waking up again & right now there is a very active storm happening, but of course we can't see it. There is a HUGE sunspot that has just come into view on the Sun that could be seen without a telescope, if you have the right equipment, filters etc. This is what the website says about it,
"SOLAR ACTIVITY INTENSIFIES: Huge sunspot AR1476 is crackling with M-class solar flares and appears to be on the verge of producing something even stronger. The sunspot's 'beta-gamma-delta' magnetic field harbors energy for X-class flares, the most powerful kind. Earth is entering the line of fire as the sunspot rotates across the face of the sun. "
This is the website that I got this info from, and it also has a picture of the sunspot.
As far as the Aurora making a noise, I am as certain of this as I am of there being a monster in the cold dark depths of Loch Ness!;)
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Orion
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05/09/12 04:12pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: You know you're getting old when.......
I have my ears done too! He also asks me if I want the 'Full Service' but I don't think I know him that well!
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Orion
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05/07/12 06:10pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Canada Trip
Enter Canada at Blaine at the end of the I-5. Spend a few days in Vancouver, see the city, take a day trip up to Whistler, half of which is along the spectacular Howe Sound, actually a 'fjord', and take a day trip in the toad, or preferably an overnighter to Victoria. The ferry trip itself is worth it alone, the city picturesque and you could visit Butchart Gardens, just north of Victoria on the way back.
Leave Vancouver on the Trans Canada, and at Hope choose between Hwy One up through the Fraser & Thompson Canyons, or Hwy Three through the Okanagan Wine & lake country. If you choose the latter, you can head directly to the Rockies via Revelstoke & Golden or take a more roundabout way by winding through the Kootenays.
When reaching Banff, or the more 'real' adjoining town of Canmore, spend a few days or more there and take some day trips to Yoho and Jasper.
After leaving the mountains, the scenery does become slightly less spectacular.:W
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Orion
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05/07/12 03:09pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Canada Trip
Where do you anticipate entering BC? From the BC coast to just beyond the BC/Alberta border has the most spectacular scenery of your trip, so you don't want to miss too much of that.
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Orion
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05/06/12 07:38pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Canadian currency exchange
We carried $50.00 each direction through Canada and everything else was on plastic with zero fees and automatic exchange rate at the rate in effect when the transaction was processed. We stayed one night in an RV park where we needed the cash but that was the only place.
Unless you have a Capital One Card (Us only- the Canadian one does charge) the 'fee' is an extra 2-3% added to the exchange rate, you will never see it on your statement as a separate item.
As for cash, buy it when you get to Canada, the volumes here are far greater than in the US, so the rates are better.
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Orion
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05/04/12 07:52pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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You know you're getting old when.......
you go out to do a quick job on the car, and when you sit down you sit on your keys because you put your sweat pants on backwards! (Mrs O says she's going to write that one on the calender!)
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Orion
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05/04/12 05:10pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Forest City to ANC
Take your pick! Wiki link
My guess would be Anchorage International Airport, but then again I never tell anyone that I live in YYJ! (Victoria International Airport)
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Orion
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05/02/12 02:49pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: If you had to pick a game.....
....that you couldn't figure out the rules by watching, what would it be? I've heard it said that Chess is one you could never figure out because the pieces move differently.
My personal choice is Cricket. I've tried. Maybe I have too much baseball in my blood, and the players do swing a bat although it looks more like a fraternity paddle, but I can't figure out how you score, how you get out, and most important, how long is a game? I've seen some that seem to go on for days. And what's a "sticky wicket"?
Take a baseball field and move the home plate and the pitcher's 'mound' to the centre of the field, remove the bases.
Instead of a vague area, that in which the ball has to pass through to be a strike, you place three sticks (wickets) on top of which you place two smaller sticks (bails). The idea is that the bowler (pitcher) has to knock off the bails to get the batsman (batter) out. One strike & you're out. Two batsmen go in at a time, and the balls are bowled from each end, six balls making an 'over'. If a ball is hit, then the batsmen have the choice of running or not, depending to where & how far they hit it. If they do decide to run, both batsmen have to run to the other wicket, and that makes one run, each batsmen can be 'run out', although normally only one ever is. A ball knocked over the boundary, edge of the field is an automatic four runs or six if it doesn't touch the field first. If they get only one run on a hit, then the other batsman will now take the rest of the over. Ten wickets (outs) is an innings, and two innings each constitute a game which will last three days, five days on an international, although many games are played with each team bowling 40 overs, and this can be completed in a few hours.
The ball is bowled from a straight arm, but the bowler takes a run to add to the speed, and it can hit the ground before getting to the batsman. The ball is as fast and I think harder than a baseball. The ball can be hit in any direction, so the placing of the fielders, which will vary greatly depending on what style of bowling, is crucial.
I could go on & on but suffice to say, cricket is to baseball as chess is to checkers!
A 'Sticky Wicket' is when a combination of the state of the pitch (field) and the weather, light etc. make it difficult to hit the ball.
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Orion
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04/29/12 12:44am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: RV NET down ??? PROBLEM SOLVED HERE - 4/27/12
I normally go in through TrailerLife.com, but when there is a problem there, RV.net or the Woodall's portal will normally allow access. The last few days however the only way I could get in was through the rarely visited but still active BigVanwithtoilet.com.
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Orion
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04/27/12 05:37pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Movie flubs
Hollywood-
Hollywood- Spaceships blowing up make a lot of noise.
In reality- there is no sound in space.
Oh yeah? then how do the astronauts talk to one another in the space craft? :)
Well according to Einstein, it is all relative, so in a space craft the sound travels much faster as the momentum of the spacecraft is inversely proportion to the square of the vector of the trajectory. The multidimensional quantum aspect of the initial thrust will also be influenced by the angle of the dangle.
Quite simple really!
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Orion
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04/27/12 02:16pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Round Kitchen Sinks
Other the fact that it's new, different and from Europe, what is actually wrong with a round sink. As others have said, most dishes and pots are round and a circle is the most efficient shape to contain a space. I'm not disputing it, just trying to find out.
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Orion
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04/27/12 01:14pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Frank Spence
Sorry to hear that, I remember his postings on the POW camps. He posted just a few days ago on another topic. RIP Frank.
BTW his handle was Anml_341.
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Orion
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04/27/12 01:01pm |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: Movie flubs
When doing a movie at some time in the past, Hollywood will always use cars from that exact period. If it is 1965, ALL the cars will be from that time, with the odd error of the occasional 1966 or 1967. In reality, there would have been many cars from earlier periods. Also in these movies, all the cars are nice & shiny.
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Orion
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04/27/12 11:52am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: From Germany, LA, NY, to FL in THIS MH !!
Good for them! At least they are doing a big trip to another continent. I wonder what the ratio is of European RV'ers over here compared to North American RV'ers over in Europe is, 10-1? 20-1? 50-1?
It's not the cost of fuel, as they use more fuel efficient vehicles. It's probably more to do with the attitude of the people, here you often hear "Why should I travel that far when I still have lots to see in my own county/state/province/ country"- how sad. Over in Europe, there is more of an inquiring mind to see other places and other countries, except the French for some reason, they prefer to stay in their own country!
I can remember seeing one of those buses for the first time about 30 years ago in the Embarcardo? RV park in downtown San Francisco. It looked as if they were all having soup for breakfast being served from their basement kitchen!
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Orion
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04/27/12 11:45am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Movie flubs
Hollywood-There is always a parking space available at the front of a building.
In reality- you cannot get closer than three blocks
Hollywood- Halloween costumes are ALWAYS look professionally made.
In reality- most Halloween costumes are made out of scraps & milk cartons
Hollywood-Scenes inside a casino are always full of long legged babes with short skirts.
In reality- casinos are full of old ladies with walkers!
Hollywood- fairgrounds always play circus type music & people walk around with huge teddy bears as prizes.
In reality- Most fairgrounds play heavy rock and or rap and the only prizes seen are 6" teddies or dinosaurs.
Hollywood- the view through binoculars shows two circles side by side, kind of like a figure 'eight' on its side.
In reality- Binoculars, unless there is something wrong with them, will show a single circle.
Hollywood- Spaceships blowing up make a lot of noise.
In reality- there is no sound in space.
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Orion
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04/26/12 05:09pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Smoking
Lady F's link does work for me, but I did find Wiki's page a bit more up to date. Yes there is quite a variety of regulations around the US, with Oklahoma being the strangest with there being a state law prohibiting the passing of any anti smoking laws in any local community!
Here they passed the smoking ban as a way of protecting the workers.
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Orion
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04/26/12 04:52pm |
Around the Campfire
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RE: Smoking
AZ and CA both have strict statewide non-smoking laws.
Washington and Oregon...very strict 'NO smoking' state wide laws.
Even hard core non food serving bars and taverns.
How about outside patios, decks or gardens attached to the bars & restaurants in these four states, do they allow smoking out there?
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Orion
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04/26/12 01:31pm |
Around the Campfire
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