Vacations in America (RE: Profit RE: World Attitude (was: Re: Down Under Attitude))

[Nick Arnett]

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> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of John D. Giorgis

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> 2) My Dad is a manager of gas-stations, and thus an employer of low-wage
> workers.   As we hasve traveled around the country in the past on our
> vacations, part of each trip was always spent looking at gas station
> operations in the places that we visited.

I'm thinking this should start a thread of fascinating vacation
opportunities here in the land of the free and home of the brave.

Here's my contribution.  We once drove five hours with a guy who told us the
voltage of every transmission line we passed, based on counting the number
of insulators.  This consisted of many phrases like "Wow, 10 insulators,
50,000 volts!"

Nick