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RE: [OM][OT] Another summer gone

Subject: RE: [OM][OT] Another summer gone
From: julian_davies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:51:20 +0100 (BST)
I had the very same experience two years ago getting to the annual French 
holiday. The motorway was a nightmare, so we diverted, and ended up driving 
down through the foothills of the Alps, and along the "Route Napoleon". 
Fabulous scenery. fabulous light. No time to stop.

Julian

>  from:    Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>  date:    Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:42:50
>  to:      olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  subject: RE: [OM][OT] Another summer gone 
> 
> At 08:44 AM 10/14/2002 -0700, Jim Timpe wrote:
> >GARTH...  Morraine Lake...   Peyto Lake....  Oh, the memories...   Athabasca
> >Falls...   
> > 
> >I live about two hours from Mt. Rainier and haven't been up to the lodge at
> >Paradise in about 20 years.  
> > 
> >I think we all suffer from a similar malady.
> 
> 
> Yep.  Drove through Jasper this year on a car trip to Vancouver to see my 
> wife's cousins, but didn't even stop long enough for gas (not that one would 
> actually *want* to pay gas prices in Jasper anyways...  :-) ).  And on the 
> return trip, went through Washington's Cascades, the interior of Washington, 
> up through Idaho, southeastern British Columbia, and then up the Front Ranges 
> to Calgary (and then boring old Highway 2 back to Edmonton).
> 
> Did I take any photos of all this fabulous scenery?  Not a one.  Partially 
> I'm always inhibited when my wife's with me (she gets bored while I'm 
> scrabbling around for a good photo opportunity), and partially we were trying 
> to make good time.  Seems to be the way, doesn't it?
> 
> Last summer's trip down into southern Alberta was five days of go where I 
> want, shoot what I want, stop when I want.  It was heaven.  Might never get 
> the chance to do that again...
> 
> Garth
> 
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