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To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (5216)	10/9/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Well, Blue, I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time up there. My idea of a good time would be a bubble bath at the Ritz and a shopping trip afterward. I'll take comfort over roughing it any day, but I do love to drive to nature, have a picnic, and then drive home. When making your list, don't forget the matches.

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (5216)	10/9/1999 2:04:00 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Hi Blue--As usual, your post made me laugh, and think....the laugh was the thought of your poor little doggies just listening to the empty can opener...and no prize.... The "think" part...several things...most of all, BE SAFE...! I'm sure also that a piece of many of us will go with you there in spirit...although I personally admit, I agree with sandintoes and Sarki ~ While I love the outdoors, 4 days roughing it on Mt Rainier in a forest service camp ground, with no tables, only outhouses, and piped in water.. made it a total necessity to spend a week in a resort like the 4 Seasons...I guess that's why so many wealthy folks went to the Adirondaks in the early 1900's....they could have the illusion of being in the wilderness, but having seen some of the 'camps' (as they call them....) they definitely had all the trappings of civilization in a rustic setting...Maine has their 'cottages' also...same deal....The smallest dwelling on some of those camps and cottages is 10,000+ sq feet... With life moving at warp speed today, more and more of us will on purpose return to a simpler life,at least as often as we can, so that we can become reaquainted with life, and what's important. Happy Trails to You...! KLP

To: Blue Snowshoe who wrote (5216)	10/10/1999 2:11:00 AM
From: Joana Tides	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7442

Blue, as you said "I've been to a town" & where you're going holds Wonders no town can offer. Sure do know what you mean by "man with nature not man against nature". Times when the whole Universe smiles & centers itself on you, when the non-humanoid beings around shyly and trustingly reveal their true personalities as unguarded. Like this summer my daughter turned me on to a new thing about squirrels - we were sitting out on the front lawn in the shade drinking ice tea & listening to the roar of the heat locusts...aaaah.... saw a squirrel crossing the road all tired-looking - tail down, head down, walking slow like it was maybe sick, not twitching its bushy tail or scampering like they do. When I said "uh oh that one doesn't look healthy, hope it doesn't have rabies" she looked at me like that was the stupidest thing she'd ever heard. "What?!" I said & she answered patiently (sigh) "Mom, that squirrel either doesn't know people are watching or doesn't give a damn enough to act like squirrels usually act in front of us right now. They put on that cute squirrel show because we give them water and food & because they're scared of us. It's probably had some kind of rotten day is all". And she was right - we kept still but then a neighbor opened their door & the squirrel perked right up a-twitching & a-skittering. I've been watching squirrels all my life, wonder why didn't i know this til now? So every day brings something new, as the Pennsylvania Dutch say "We get too soon oldt und too late schmart". Someday i'd like to go into the woods or next to the ocean or under a willow tree in a kayak alone with a big sketchbook and a 120 color fullset of knife-sharpened prismacolor pencils sanfordcorp.com while somehow being hooked up to an alpha brainwave machine to confirm what we already know it would say. I've rarely had a clear thought away from nature either, Blue... except for rare "world-Om" moments unsustained when time stops briefly like when those treefrogs singing Nyep Nyep were showing me The Core Of It on summer evenings for awhile there. Here's 2 suggestions for your packing list: 1) Remember don't forget your sketchbook and pencils 2) Will you take a cell phone along with you, Mountain Man? (selling the idea: you wouldn't want to be wishing you'd a-brung it, 10-4?) OK Blue, LOL I KNOW what you're thinking!...so here's technology intruding on the wilderness in its sneaky way again. Probably a TELECOM Jones channelling disguised as a safety tip from "consider the source" that same fool who took a Carnival cruise in Titanic waters off Nova Scotia trusting it to outrun a hurricaine a-comin' going against Your good advice. But that was different! By departure day i knew 100% from exhaustive DD that we'd be running way ahead of it even if it came real fast up the coast that way. AnEEway (asking for the order: Mr. Natural sez "Get the right tool for the job") so you'll bring a cellphone, right? Your long tine friend, Joan