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Western Vacation
Posted Jul 9, 2000
A fantabulous time!!
Bob, daughter Mandey and her husband Stuart and I are back from our vacation to Montana, South Dakota, and Wyoming. It was a fun trip, but a lot of hours in the car. We each took turns driving, though, so it wasn't too bad. We visited many sites on the way out there and back. We stopped at a Lakota Sioux Museum, the Badlands, The Black Hills, Mt. Rushmore, Custer State Park, Keystone, the Little Bighorn Battlefield, Devil's Tower, & Yellowstone National Park.
At the Badlands we took a short helicopter ride (FUN!!), and did a field walk with a naturalist. Stuart, who has a horror of snakes, saw a diamond-back rattler slithering across some mud right beneath the raised walkway he was standing on. He did not like that at all, and we had been teasing him too about being scared of snakes. Poor Stewy! The Black Hills are called that because they are thickly covered in pine trees. We saw many animals on our trip; deer, prong-horned antelope, elk, wild donkeys, prarie dogs, herds of bison and even a black bear in Yellowstone! Yellowstone was incredible. We drove for 142 miles through the park, and hit as many of the highlights as possible. The whole of the park is a volcanic caldera so that's why there are geysers and hot springs. In 1988 a third of the park burned and the skeletons of the trees are still very evident. Happily there are new trees coming up to take their place on the mountain slopes. It was difficult to imagine what it must have been like when those fires were burning, because when I say a third of the park I am talking about 793,880 acres!! 25,000 people were involved with fighting the fires. Seeing the enormous devastation was more impressive than the geysers. Devil's Tower was also interesting. It is the mountain featured in the film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. It looks like a stupendously large tree stump, but is actually the core of an old volcano. There were many times during our trip that I wished our daughter-in-law, Aradhna was with us. Aradhna is a paleontologist and has studied geology.
We saw lots and lots of older couples (my generation!!) traveling cross country on motorcycles. Usually with either a sidecar, a small trailer, or both. Their helmets were equipped with headsets so they could talk with one another. I thought that was interesting.
Its good to be back home!
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Anywhere Is
Posted Jun 22, 2000
This song by Enya reminds me of h2g2 forums!!:
I walk the maze of moments
but everywhere I turn to
begins a new beginning
but never finds a finish
I walk to the horizon
and there I find another
it all seems so surprising
and then I find that I know.
You go there you're gone forever
I go there I'll lose my way
if we stay here we're not together
Anywhere is
The moon upon the ocean
is swept around in motion
but without ever knowing
the reason for its flowing
in motion on the ocean
the moon still keeps on moving
the waves still keep on waving
and I still keep on going
I wonder if the stars sign
the life that is to be mine
and would they let their light shine
enough for me to follow
I look up to the heavens
but night has clouded over
no spark of constellation
No Vela no Orion
The shells upon the warm sands
have taken from their own lands
the echo of their story
but all I hear are low sounds
as pillow words are weaving
and willow waves are leaving
but should I be believing
that I am only dreaming
To leave the thread of all time
and let it make a dark line
in hopes that I can still find
the way back to the moment
I took the turn and turned to
begin a new beginning
still looking for the answer
I cannot find the finish
it's either this or that way
it's one way or the other
it should be one direction
it could be on reflection
the turn I have just taken
the turn that I was making
I might be just beginning
I might be near the end.
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Latest reply: Jun 22, 2000
SF Movies
Posted Mar 28, 2000
28 March
It was recently suggested to me that it would be a good idea to add to the journal entries every once in a while so that I won't have to keep reading the same thing over and over. So, that's what I'll do, and we'll see how long my page can actually get! 
Thanks J-T-G!
Hmmm; topic, topic... I know! What is everyone's favorite all time science fiction movie? Mine is 'Them' about the giant ants created from nuclear bomb testing. It's so intense, with great early days special fx.
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Why can't we delete?
Posted Jan 29, 2000
Wish we could delete these Journal Entries. This is like saying something out loud, you can't take it back. *Pondering* Unless you say "I take it back". I'll try that: I take the very long, ponderous and preachy email that I put into my H2G2 Journal back. It's making my page too longish. 
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I don't know what I was thinking about
Posted Jan 20, 2000
Oh, never mind.
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