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To: Rick_Barry who wrote (4325)	1/26/1999 11:15:00 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5944

My boonies is San Juan Island. Take out your map, look at the upper left corner of Washington, you'll see a group of specks in the water between the south tip of Vancouver Island and the north tip of Whidbey Island. That's the San Juans. Accessible only by ferry from Anacortes (or by air). I'm on the westernmost large one, San Juan Island, on the extreme west side on the water -- our house looks out toward Victoria to the south-west. Beautiful, but very remote. (On a peninsula which will be an island at high tide if global warming ever raises the ocean more than about 6 inches). When I first moved here, about 20 years ago, our power company was the Occasional Power and Light Company -- outages were at least weekly during the windy season; you can imagine what that did to our early IBM PC! Much better now since they undergrounded the worst of the lines, but still no cable, definitely no T1 access (we just got rid of party lines a few years ago), and no chance of a dish unless I either put it in the top of a tree or cut down a bunch of trees to get line of sight from the house. TV reception from Seattle, and quality depends on atmospherics, varying from okay to none. Pure boonies. If you don't like to read for entertainment, don't live here!