Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-07 Thread John
International travels? Mexico - twice, once on one of those family trips to California we went to Tijuana for the day with my aunt's family & when I was married we took a packaged tour to Acapulco & Mexico city. Didn't see a whole lot because my wife spent most of the time being sick, but we

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread mike wilson
> On 03 September 2020 at 22:52 "Daniel J. Matyola" > wrote: > > > Since my last two posts are being held because they are two long, I'm > reproducing them here: > > For your amusement, here is my list of foreign countries I have visited: > > Canada > Mexico > Bermuda > Jamaica > Cuba >

RE: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread mike wilson
I think three of those are not, strictly, countries. > On 04 September 2020 at 01:02 jco...@iinet.net.au wrote: > > > My list of countries visited or lived in: > England Wales Northern Ireland Scotland Jersey > France The Netherlands Italy PortugalGermany >

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Never been there. Were I to travel to Bonny Scotland, I might just go to Islay and stay there.Heaven on earth. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 10:57 AM mike wilson wrote: > > > On 03 September 2020 at

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Here is my revised list, adding Vatican City, which I have visited twice. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * For your amusement, here is my list of foreign countries I have visited: > > Canada > Mexico > Bermuda > Jamaica > Cuba >

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread ann sanfedele
- From: PDML On Behalf Of ann sanfedele Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 11:12 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S. and um Australia I believe  (just in case someone doesn't know that Brisbane is there ;-) ) ann  -  enjoying the list sharing... On 9/3

RE: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-04 Thread jcoyle
Umm - Ann I think your list must have trimmed Australia from my message - last item on the fourth line. John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: PDML On Behalf Of ann sanfedele Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 11:12 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I keep forgetting that! Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Thu, Sep 3, 2020 at 6:20 PM wrote: > When people don't trim the old messages the files get very big very quickly > > > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread ann sanfedele
Emirates Not included, places where I've only touched down at the airport! John in Brisbane -Original Message- From: PDML On Behalf Of ann sanfedele Sent: Friday, 4 September 2020 7:23 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S. Nice to read

RE: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread jcoyle
September 2020 7:23 AM To: pdml@pdml.net Subject: Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S. Nice to read, John... thought you might have been to a couple more. Here's the thing about travels.. while I have been to 49 states and all the Canadian Provinces, the only other foreign

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread ann sanfedele
true true.. but I do wish when people trim they would not delete the PESO or GESO link everyone is commenting on. ann On 9/3/2020 6:19 PM, l...@red4est.com wrote: When people don't trim the old messages the files get very big very quickly On September 3, 2020 3:07:19 PM PDT, ann sanfedele

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread lrc
When people don't trim the old messages the files get very big very quickly On September 3, 2020 3:07:19 PM PDT, ann sanfedele wrote: >Dan  impressive! >I may be wrong, but I think if you had not used as many lines listing >them their email size would be smaller. >guessing it goes by line and

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread ann sanfedele
Dan  impressive! I may be wrong, but I think if you had not used as many lines listing them their email size would be smaller. guessing it goes by line and not by number of characters. :-) so I'm helping shorten in my reply hehe ann On 9/3/2020 5:52 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Since my

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Since my last two posts are being held because they are two long, I'm reproducing them here: For your amusement, here is my list of foreign countries I have visited: Canada Mexico Bermuda Jamaica Cuba Dominican Republic Aruba Switzerland Austria Germany Liechtenstein Czech Republic France Italy

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread ann sanfedele
Nice to read, John... thought you might have been to a couple more. Here's the thing about travels.. while I have been to 49 states and all the Canadian Provinces, the only other foreign countries I've been to are Mexico (deducing that wading across the Rio Grande in a remote area of Big

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread John
Using the checklist Ann gave me I've got my list up to 13. There are a couple my family went to when I was a child that I haven't been able to get back to and a couple more I haven't ... I added Sequoia National Park to the list because we went through it on the way from my aunts (mom's sister)

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-03 Thread John
On 9/1/2020 01:29:37, John Francis wrote: On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:04:25AM -0400, John wrote: I've been to 5 of them as an adult; 7 if you count Yosemite that my parents took the kids to see back during one of the two California trips that included me. Hmm. I'm pretty sure I've been to

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-01 Thread Bob Pdml
That sounds like a good way of spending your time. B > On 1 Sep 2020, at 15:38, ann sanfedele wrote: > > I cant resist giving you guys my numbers now.. with relatively brief > explaination of how I managed it. > Printed out the list of 62 NP's and checked off 45 for sure and a couple of >

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-01 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
WOW! 45? I'm certainly impressed. Lee and I are big fans of the national park system, and have visited all the usual suspects, plus the two in Hawaii and Katmai in Alaska, which is very difficult to get into but most rewarding. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-09-01 Thread ann sanfedele
I cant resist giving you guys my numbers now.. with relatively brief explaination of how I managed it. Printed out the list of 62 NP's and checked off 45 for sure and a couple of more with question marks because I was likely there as a child before they were designated as National Parks. all 45

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread John Francis
On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 11:04:25AM -0400, John wrote: > I've been to 5 of them as an adult; 7 if you count Yosemite that my parents > took the kids to see back during one of the two California trips that > included me. Hmm. I'm pretty sure I've been to more than that. Let's see: Acadia, Bryce

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread John
Clickbait? Here's a thought ... Search Flickr for "National Parks, U.S., Pentax" https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=National%20Parks%2C%20U.S.%2C%20Pentax I bet you can do the same for whatever country you're located in. See what the photographers in your location are posting. -- Science

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread mike wilson
> On 31 August 2020 at 15:15 John wrote: > > > On 8/27/2020 12:05:21, Bob Pdml wrote: > > > >> On 27 Aug 2020, at 16:33, mike wilson wrote: > >> > >>  > On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts > wrote: > > > Bob Pdml wrote: > > A strange article really

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread John
On 8/31/2020 11:02:58, mike wilson wrote: On 31 August 2020 at 15:15 John wrote: On 8/27/2020 12:05:21, Bob Pdml wrote: On 27 Aug 2020, at 16:33, mike wilson wrote:  On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts wrote: Bob Pdml wrote: A strange article really because it seems to me

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread John
I've been to 5 of them as an adult; 7 if you count Yosemite that my parents took the kids to see back during one of the two California trips that included me. We had an hour at the Yosemite visitor center before "back in the car kids we got to go". From there my dad took the road that goes

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-31 Thread John
On 8/27/2020 12:05:21, Bob Pdml wrote: On 27 Aug 2020, at 16:33, mike wilson wrote:  On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts wrote: Bob Pdml wrote: A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread mike wilson
> On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts wrote: > > > Bob Pdml wrote: > > >A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places > >are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone who is aware > >of the foreign places is probably also aware of the US

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread ann sanfedele
Dan - I was replying to Bob's post - go bac a cople of posts :-)  He was making a click bait joke then explainted it to me. ann On 8/27/2020 2:04 PM, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: Congratulations, Ann. I have only been to half of these places. The site is by Conde Nast, and all the images from

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
Congratulations, Ann. I have only been to half of these places. The site is by Conde Nast, and all the images from Getty. I missed what is being characterized as a joke; where was it? I just thought this was a good way of remembering nice places we have been to and other places we would like

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread ann sanfedele
 umm O   but  considering the last photo was of the Hoh rain forest and to booth the comparison was of one in South America.. and our flaming forests that was not a great photo for a joke these days! anyway I needed to recount my stats -- for these places I've only been to  21 of the 30.. so

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Bob Pdml
You won’t really cry, ann, it’s a click bait trick: “this man took 1,000 pictures of his pet snail every day for a thousand years - don’t cry when you see the last one” > On 27 Aug 2020, at 17:44, ann sanfedele wrote: > > Now I have to look... (ok, look again - I should recount my hits

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread ann sanfedele
Now I have to look... (ok, look again - I should recount my hits anyway) ann On 8/27/2020 12:05 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: On 27 Aug 2020, at 16:33, mike wilson wrote:  On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts wrote: Bob Pdml wrote: A strange article really because it seems to me that most of

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Bob Pdml
> On 27 Aug 2020, at 16:33, mike wilson wrote: > >  >>> On 27 August 2020 at 15:51 Mark Roberts wrote: >>> >>> >>> Bob Pdml wrote: >>> >>> A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places >>> are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone who is

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread John
On 8/27/2020 10:51:26, Mark Roberts wrote: Bob Pdml wrote: A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone who is aware of the foreign places is probably also aware of the US places, so they certainly will

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread John
Unfortunately, less than a third here and I'm not sure if I'm ever going to get to the rest. I want to, but my travel plans are on hold. On 8/26/2020 20:53:19, ann sanfedele wrote: That's my line too, John - at least 80% of em ann On 8/26/2020 4:52 PM, John wrote: Hard *NOT* to believe in

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
They still have some pretty photography. Have you been to one of their brick-and-mortar "art" stores? Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:52 AM Mark Roberts wrote: > Bob Pdml wrote: > > >A strange article

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Mark Roberts
Bob Pdml wrote: >A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places >are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone who is aware >of the foreign places is probably also aware of the US places, so they >certainly will believe they are in the US. National

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
I agree, but since all my spring and summer travel plans got canceled by COVID-19, I like to look at pictures of places I remember and places I wanted to visit. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 2:20 AM Bob

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-27 Thread Bob Pdml
A strange article really because it seems to me that most of the US places are better known than the places they’re compared to. Anyone who is aware of the foreign places is probably also aware of the US places, so they certainly will believe they are in the US. > On 27 Aug 2020, at 01:54, ann

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-26 Thread ann sanfedele
That's my line too, John - at least 80% of em ann On 8/26/2020 4:52 PM, John wrote: Hard *NOT* to believe in some of 'em since I've been there to see 'em with my own eyes. On 8/24/2020 11:03:49, Daniel J. Matyola wrote:

Re: OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-26 Thread John
Hard *NOT* to believe in some of 'em since I've been there to see 'em with my own eyes. On 8/24/2020 11:03:49, Daniel J. Matyola wrote: https://www.cntraveler.com/gallery/landscapes-you-wont-believe-are-in-the-us Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery

OT: 30 Landscapes You Won't Believe Are in the U.S.

2020-08-24 Thread Daniel J. Matyola
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