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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (41951)	11/27/2005 12:06:11 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

"You don't need oxygen at 10,000 feet! GEESH! Some people's children! Mexico City is at 7500 feet and 15-25 million people live there, depending on whose guess you trust." And they were born there and were born acclimated. You dwellers of the sea-level lowlands seem to underestimate your limitations. But hey, that's okay, because you are the ones, along with motorcyclists and skiers and snowboarders and hangliding monkeys, etc., who have kept me securely and well employed for years and will continue to do so. And EVERY TIME I've been in Mexico City, I've flown in flown there a basically sea level altitude and have not noticed the change in altitude. Even mt wife, who has bad asthma, hasn't. Next. :-) "She lays at home, watches TV, and pounds on a kbd," What? You forgot about the bonbons? <g> OOOPS! Won't make that mistake again! "and she worries about ME having heart trouble?????" Oh, m'dear, but I don't have to worry about it! <g> That's good to hear! I seem to be defying all your "logic". "Hers probably stopped flowing years ago because it didn't need to!" Maybe true, maybe not, but I ask you, why make it or anything else work harder than necessary? Because it develops excess capacity and means of coping that are useful in times of emergency? Ever hear of "collateral circulation"? You don't get that eating bonbons. Pssst. You go on and keep going on those climbs into the stratosphere 10,000 feet is HARDLY the stratosphere. The stratosphere starts at 100,000 feet. but best get a cell phone with GPS and keep its battery well charged. Where diid I say "Don't be prepared"? Then again, come to think of it, I guess there aren't too many rescue services in those places you go to; that is assuming they could even get to you where you go. Hmmmm, no, there aren't and, if there were, they probably couldn't. On second thought, might as well scratch the new cell phone with GPS. Wouldn't help ya no how. <g> You'd be wrong. Most of the places I go are well within reach of cities. Some, such as ancient Carthage, are in the modern city of Tunis. Almost all have services bilt up around the site. Teotihuacan is essentially a suburb of Mexico City now. Ek Balam is within 15 miles of Vallodolid and 100 miles of either Cancun or Merida. Chichen Itza has a small toen there and iw ithin 100 miles of Merida. Uxmal is 70 miles from Merida and also has a small town there. The crusder fortress of St. John is within 10 miles of Antalya, a large Turkish beach resort. Your point was? :-)