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Subject: [Leica] Platform nine and three-quarters
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:55:16 -0500
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I'm glad that you enjoyed New England.

When I taught secondary school and had my summers free, we crossed the 
country in 1972 from Berkeley to Boston and back, in a short converted 
school bus.

KOA was our nightly stop at $4.00 per night.  I don't remember ever 
seeing a Wal-mart.

Jim

Aram Langhans wrote:
> Jim.  That might have been cool.  I never knew where we would be at any 
> given day, or even week, and I only had internet access a few times on 
> the trip as we were camping the whole way, mostly in Wal-mart parking 
> lots to save money.  8 weeks of campgrounds would have been quite 
> expensive.  So I never considered trying to line up people to meet on 
> the trip.
> 
> Great place, New England, and so much history that I had forgotten.  
> Really enjoyed the trip.
> 
> Aram
> 
>> From: Jim Hemenway <Jim at hemenway.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Platform nine  and three-quarters
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Message-ID: <4B1817EF.900 at hemenway.com>
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>> Aram:
>>
>> A good catch! So dark, no wonder that Charlie stayed on that "train". ;-)
>>
>> Wish we could have hooked up while you were here.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>> Aram Langhans wrote:
>>> While in Boston, I saw this person reading while waiting for the subway.
>>> Striking up a conversation with him later, we found out he was reading
>>> Harry Potter.
>>>
>>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/d/195185-1/newengland_trip274.jpg>
>>>
>>> Comments welcome
>>>
>>> Aram
>>>
> 
> 
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