for his Coast Guard Training, because the California Camp was overfill.
Most of his classmates from East Coast Metropolitan centers could not
comprehend how he and the other to west of the Mississippi cadets could sit
at opposite ends of a park bench and have a conversation!!! They where SO
FAR APART.
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Ian Skinner
Web Programmer
BloodSource
www.BloodSource.org
Sacramento, CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2003 9:20 AM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: back from the big empty
until we got there! Really though, you don't realize how much constant
background noise there is in a city until it suddenly isnt there. You could
hear people talking in a normal tone of voice for a couple hundred yards.
Dana
Ben Braver writes:
> ROFL
> Silence, huh?
> :-)
>
> -Ben
>
>
>
> >Am back from Chaco by the way. The road is, as advertised, absolutely
> >horrible :) but the place itself is worth the aggravation. Not just for
the
> >ruins but for the silence and the stars, which were amazing.
> >
> >In the "it will be funny later" category, we got there around 2 AM and
> >after watching the stars for a bit we went to sleep in the car at the
> >campground. About an hour and a half later my daughter is cold and asks
me
> >to turn the heat on. I start the engine. Something in the security system
> >-- which I had not known existed until then, borrowed Jeep remember ---
> >something in the security system takes objection to this and it starts
> >going BWAP -- BWAP -- BWAP -- BWAP and this is echoing off the canyon
walls
> >and I am pushing every button in sight trying to figure out how to turn
the
> >sucker off :) OK, I guess it's funny now :) I am amazed the other fifteen
> >or twenty campers didn't just open fire with shotguns or something :)
> >
> >Dana
> >Dana
>
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