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From: For4inVa@aol.com
Subject: Fogged In In Fredericksburg.
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 10:22:03 EST
Hi Gang!
Sorry I've been so quiet. I started the week off with a cold, Bridget was sick
Tuesday and I finished the week with a sinus infection. Finally got some drugs
Thursday night and am starting to feel better. Sometimes its kinda hard to
check my mail during the week I spend 3 hours a day commuting. When I get home
around 6 I end up getting dinner, making sure Bridget has her homework done
and sometimes watching my brothers boys since he and his wife are involved in
a lot of organizations. He's got 4 boys and three are in scouts and they are
both troop leaders. It's kinda slow now but will get real crazy once soccer
starts. Everybody is in that.
Bob, it sounds like you got a great home and school life. When your out
running I'm grabbing the first VRE north. I'll try to think of you this
Monday, I'll go into a meditative state and do some Zen running with. (I gotta
make a note to myself to bring my Zen running shoes. I keep misplacing them.)
It sure is nice to wake up Saturday morning and have all this e-mail to read.
It's better than the newspaper.
I'm glad you all like my travel tales.
Ah, the buffalo. Well it was a good thing that the herd decided to ignore us
because we would'nt have been able to escape them very easily. The problem was
the ground. It was spring and sometime after the winter thaw the ground had
been soft and the herds had been walking all over it. This left the field we
were in with sunken hoof marks throughout. The hoofprints were all about three
or four inches wide and six to eight inches deep. So, if the herd had charged
us we couldn't have run very fast without breaking an ankle or two. The nice
thing about that time of the year was that just about whatever animals we saw
they all had young with them. After we left Yellowstone we headed towards
Oregon. I think we made the coast in a day arriving around dinnertime in a
place called Sunset Beach. This was a real nice campground right on the water.
We made dinner then walked down to the beach to watch the sunset.
Gotta go. Two of the nephews spent the night and now they're all yelping for
breakfast.
Talk to ya'll later!
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