That sounds a lot like

Post #61,714 by Ashton 11/7/02 5:25:55 PM Reply	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..
Post #61,836 by jake123 11/8/02 9:51:44 AM Reply	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. --\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\r\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \r\n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \r\n Laval Qu\ufffdbec Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\r\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #61,916 by Ashton 11/8/02 5:51:07 PM Reply	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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