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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/13/08 06:35 PM
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Tenakee Springs, Alaska might be a place you are looking for. 
Or any part of Southeast Alaska!
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/13/08 08:31 PM
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Would this mean I would have to trade my Harley for a snow mobile 
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/14/08 05:57 AM
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Handyman, we moved from Sarasota to Wauchula for the same reasons, gun fights on the corners, etc. I would still be in the Heartland if it hadn't been for the divorce. I want to get back to the country.
Thanks EF! What a glowing endorsement! You wouldn't happen to be a publisher would you? Bless your heart.
Egon, I don't know about Handyman, but I would love to go to Alaska. After 20 years in Florida, however, I have a feeling I would freeze up like the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz after the first snowfall. But nothing is out of the realm of possibility.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/14/08 07:34 AM
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Cindi, you might be right about freezing up in Alaska, but I'll tell you a bit of a funny story, to me at least. My Dad grew up in southern Oklahoma, later moved to Texas, never had air-conditioning in his home or where he worked; worked outside a good part of his life, hated Winter and cold weather, preferred Summer and never complained about the heat. But he sold his un-air-conditioned service station and the un-air-conditioned auto parts store just north of Dallas in early 1965.
He and Mother decided to do a little traveling to see the western USA in a little pickup camper, but planned to then look for a small town with no auto parts store and start one for them. It had to be near good fishing and small game hunting, in eastern Oklahoma or western Arkansas. So in their travels, they got to Seattle, and quite by accident saw a travel agency sign about Alaska. They flew from Seattle to Anchorage, rode the train from Anchorage to Fairbanks and back, then flew back to Seattle. When they got to Seattle, they promptly drove back to Texas, told my sister she and her husband could move into their house, loaded what they could into the pickup camper and Mother's car, and moved to Anchorage in October, 1965. Dad only had to pull Mother and her car out a snowbank once on that trip.
Dad went to work on a salary for an auto parts company and they both loved Alaska. It was hard for me to imagine my Dad going tent camping and hunting in sub-zero weather. He said his Stanley stainless steel thermos would keep the coffee warm overnight at 20 below zero.  So they lived in Anchorage until he retired in late 1971 and became full time RVers, wintering in the south and returning to Alaska each summer to fish.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/14/08 09:58 AM
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Cindi; the Southeast part I'm referring to has a quite different climate than much of the rest of Alaska. Rain Forest country.
Data for Sitka Alaska:
The average high temperature in August is 62 degrees Fahrenheit, and the average low temperature in January is 30 degrees Fahrenheit
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/14/08 12:20 PM
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Why don't one of you moderators lock this thread and lets start a welcome back Cindy thread somewhere else. Tis Obnoxious cordwood thing is ickey.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/14/08 09:45 PM
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Cindy ,
You know what they say about women finding men in Alaska, right?
The odds are good, but the goods are odd! 
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/15/08 04:52 AM
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Egon, that sounds perfect. Is that true? I could live with that.
Gary, I could live with that, too. We're all a little odd in our own special ways.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/15/08 06:57 AM
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Yes that is true Cindi. The disadvantage is there is much rain. The advantage of this is the conflicting dark clouds, fog and shafts of sunlight are make for awesome sights.
Most of these places in South East Alaska can only be reached by air or the Alaskan Marine Highway. They are on islands or situated on the coast with no road access to anywhere.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/15/08 08:06 AM
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Re: "lets start a welcome back Cindy thread"...
Let's start a 'welcome back CORDWOOD' thread.
All kids are gifted; some just open their packages earlier than others.-Michael Carr
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/15/08 12:28 PM
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Once again, have to disagree. Kind of like french (or some japanese) food, the ingredients start off a little disgusting and by the time it is molded and prepared it turns out into some thing GOOD.
Sorry C, do not know anything about the litererary world, just know good writing when i see it!!
No fun, change the rules!!!
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07/16/08 01:37 PM
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Egon, sounds like my kind of place. I guess I'm a lot like Morticia Adams, I prefer dark skies and gusty winds.
JD, sadly it seems that CWG is gone for good. I don't understand why he got so upset, but then I'm not him.
EF, thank you again.
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07/16/08 03:33 PM
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If I could get real ambitious Cindi I'd dig out some photos of our long ago, 1987, trip thru the area on the Marine Highway.
It was the whole family with bicycles and tents. The bikes rode for free on the ferry at that time. We paid and got to sleep on the solarium deck on chaise lounge chairs in our sleeping bags on overnight stages. Some people would set up tents on the after deck.
Neat trip.
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07/16/08 03:39 PM
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I'm jealous.
If you post them (the photos) I would love to see them.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/16/08 06:20 PM
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Gosh, Egon, 1987 wasn't that long ago. I've never made that trip on the water, but the first time we went to Alaska, was July, 1972, in a 1971 3/4 ton Chevy pickup pulling a 25' Holiday Vacationer travel trailer; over a thousand miles of dirt and gravel road each way. It was quite an adventure, but also a lot of hard dirty work. My wife didn't enjoy a lot of it. In fact, one night when we stopped, she just went back, got in the trailer, sat down, and cried awhile.
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Re: WINNER OF THE MOST OBNOXIOUS BOARD AWARD!
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07/17/08 05:24 AM
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Bird, I'm quite familiar with highway you are talking about although I have never driven on any great lengths of it. Just a little bit of the portion around Whitehorse to Dawson City and a side detour to Mayo.
I spent the summer of 1963 working in the Yukon but we flew to Whitehorse from Edmonton in a DC6.
Yes I know 1987 was only yesterday, or so it seems!
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New guy here.
Hope this isn't a common thing here ..........
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I've been here for some time, but not as long as some, but the members are in general a pretty good bunch.
Give us a chance, OK? Sometimes threads drift off topic, or someone gets their shorts all wadded up, but all in all, it's a great place.
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