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RE: [OM] Test slides from U.S. Southwest vacation...

Subject: RE: [OM] Test slides from U.S. Southwest vacation...
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:04:04 -0700
Those same boots would have cost about four times as much in Hawaii. Western
boots and hats both can be very expensive. The higher end Stetson hats sell
here for about $1800. I think they are mostly bought by Mexican drug
dealers.

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From:   owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Chris Barker
Sent:   Thursday, November 28, 2002 12:44 AM
To:     olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc:     Garth Wood
Subject:        Re: [OM] Test slides from U.S. Southwest vacation...

I visited White Sands in 1990 to undergo centrifuge training (3 runs
getting up to 9g) at Holloman and it is a wonderful place.
Unfortunately I did not have time to take photos.  Alamagordo may be
a cheap place to stay, but it stocked expensive western boots then.
I could not believe that the staple footwear of that part of the
world (or so I thought) would cost $300.

I don't know how they can describe the F117 as a "fighter".  It's
really a mini-B2 bomber at a 1/10th the cost, at a guess.  It can
fight as well as this beer glass in my hand ...

... well it would be in my hand if I were not typing, and if it were
not 0745 ;-).

Which empire controls Expedia please?

Chris

At 22:43 -0700 27/11/02, Garth Wood wrote:
>At 12:22 AM 11/28/2002 -0500, Jim L'Hommedieu wrote:
>>What a wierd place!  You say it's on _this_  planet?  I'd say you metered
>>and composed well.  Nice job.
>
>
>Thanks.  Yeah, White Sands looks a lot like Mars, in my mind.  Also
>got several more rolls here, as well as at places like Tent Rocks
>(near Santa Fe, if memory serves), which is so strange looking that
>it's been used by Hollywood for a number of movies and several
>series, the most notable of which (at least to me) was "Earth II"
>back in the mid-Nineties.
>
>White Sands is several hundred square miles, most of which is
>off-limits to civvies 'cause the pilots at Holloman AFB use it as a
>weapons testing and practise range.  Unfortunately, that also means
>we weren't able to get a close-up look at Trinity (where they
>detonated the first atomic bomb) 'cause it's on the northern end of
>the range.  However, there were a lot of F117A Stealth fighters
>flying around the skies over White Sands, which was interesting.
>
>While Alamogordo doesn't have a lot to offer in itself, it was
>fairly central to a number of sights around southeastern New Mexico,
>so it made a good base of operations.  It was relatively cheap, too
>-- $58.00 U.S./night for an executive suite at the Best Western
>Desert Aire.  (In fact, with the exception of the two nights we
>stayed at Star Hill Inn, we *never* paid more than $58.00 U.S./night
>anywhere, including a suite hotel in the Denver Tech Center -- gotta
>love making reservations via Expedia, even if it is controlled by
>the Evil Empire... 8^> ).
>
>Garth
>
>
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