Post #61,512
11/6/02 8:57:17 PM
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I was there from 73 to 76 off and on
every government is doomed in quebec. I remember my first civil election for town council. Every 1k of value was worth 1 vote so the heavy hitters ran the place to their own satisfaction. Still pine for the eastern townships of course as well as a few spots now under water from the james bay hydro project. One of these days I would like to take my family to Montreal.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
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Post #61,517
11/6/02 9:16:39 PM
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Re: I was there from 73 to 76 off and on
Yeah, we've talked about that:) It's true... it's very rare for a gov't to last more than two mandates in Qc since Duplessis... I guess les citoyennes learned something from that debacle.
I've never done the Cantons de l'est, myself, and I'm far more familiar with Northern Ontario (something about 30 years in On contra 5 years in Qc). OTOH, if you're ever up this way, I'll take you down on the Main and we'll have a grand old time.
Also, if you are into that canoeing thing... I can highly recommend Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen.
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Post #61,519
11/6/02 9:27:14 PM
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spent 2 weeks in my youth doing algonquin park
in Ont, my ideal trip would be great slave lake thru the Mkenzie drainage accross to Point Barrow AK take about 3 months. Well I can hope to win the lottery.
thanx,
bill
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Post #61,525
11/6/02 9:31:05 PM
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National Geographic
About ten-fifteen years ago had a huge article and photo spread of someone who did just that... except that he started on the shore of the Hudson's Bay... and he walked the whole way. It took him something like a year and a half to walk all the way to Alaska.
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Post #61,549
11/6/02 11:38:56 PM
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walking is for idiots (I know)
I wanted to do the Ididarod trail in the summer when it wasnt so cold. Took me 3 days to get to happy river in water from my knees to my waist most of the time. There is a reason people establish camps in the summer and travel thru the winter.
thanx,
bill
will work for cash and other incentives [link|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html|skill set]
"Money for jobs? No first you get the job, then you get the money" Raimondo
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Post #61,714
11/7/02 5:25:55 PM
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That sounds a lot like
something Colin Fletcher would do! He's a Welshman with US citizenship, but none of the Disneyland stuff has infected or inflected him. A genuine (backpacking) Icon here, having many revisions of The Complete Walker, The Thousand Mile Summer and other books to his credit.
Alas though I've know him for many years, I haven't visited him in Monterey (Calif. not Monterrey Mex!) for several years - to catch the latest drift. He's walked from Canadian to Mexican borders (maybe further into Canada than I suppose), the Grand Canyon etc.
So if he ain't the guy.. he could do this walk in a trice ;-)
(Hell he also plays exc. tennis in his age group ~ well over 70 by now.) Exciting stuff.. but not quite enough to galzanize us lazy sods into such heroic Gestes, mes amis.
Ashton
Irrelevant note: he does his writing on a green screen, DOS, WP 5.1 - and his publishers accommodate that because they must! I've set up a couple of his machines in past (incl. a spare 486 - hell a 386 was already plenty fast) but fortunately he has someone local to handle the magic now. I showed him Windoze once and he said ~ "who needs all that crap - I write; I don't play with this &^$&^#.." [cackle] Man after own heart..
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Post #61,836
11/8/02 9:51:44 AM
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This walk in a trice? Not too sure about that...
It's significantly more than a thousand miles. It can't be done in summertime only. That means you're going to have to walk all winter. If he's spent all his time South of the Border, he might discover that the winter up there is different from anything he's ever experienced before... -50 degrees is a normal daytime temp.\r\n\r\nHere's an interesting far north trivia for you... if you have a car/truck/whatever that runs on gasoline and/or diesel, for about six months you can't turn it off unless it's in a heated garage. If you don't... the fuel will freeze in the fuel line and you'll have to wait till spring. It's one of the reasons we (Canada) have the highest per capita energy consumption rates in the world... any industry in the far north needs energy and lots of it just to keep the joint from freezing into immobility for the winter.
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Post #61,916
11/8/02 5:51:07 PM
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Heh.. see your point.__ Also Canada (parts in winter)
seems to make about as much sense for human habitation as.. Vegas [any time of the year]. We did Vegas for Pure Murican genetic Greed: What's the excuse of Candians ?? :-\ufffd
(Yeah, believe shorts is his major uniform - whereas you seem to be describing another Survival Tee Vee show, with little to do re enjoying one's presence in nature. Seems more like "how to survive on Mars" than.. anything remotely er 'spiritually uplifting' and all ;-)
Ashton
not knocking Canada/Canadians mind you - may well have to seek refuge there, if Murica morphs much further into Ashcroft/Cheney/Dubya-LaLaLand, y'know?
At least youse guys are Americans too! - we ain't got no monopoly on the continent (well.. Hegemony R' US of cour$e, but..)
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