Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I met one of those too Richard, way back when (1976). He was backpacking back and forth between India and Israel (you could do that over-land back then). But he didn't need a maple leaf ... he could barely speak English at the time (French Canadian). We've been best of friends every since: http://www.rollei-gallery.net/ridings/image-59632.html http://www.dlridings.com/paw2003/13.html http://www.dlridings.com/paw2004/28alt4.html >From Israel I went up to Sweden (met a Swedish girl) and he followed a few months later (met a Swedish girl) ... so it goes. Still married to her. After 28 years I'm starting to think it just might work out :) Daniel On Fri, 10 Dec 2004, Richard Sintchak wrote: > I have the fortunate opportunity to travel on extensive trips > throughout Europe a few times and also around the world > once---backpacking mostly. You can tell who the Canadians are because > almost without fail they have a Canadian pin on their lapel, and/or a > patch on their jacket or backpack. In many ways I cannot blame them. > If I were Canadian I would hate to be mistaken for American. After a > while though, if I saw the pin or patch, but only after hearing them > speak English, I had some fun by asking them what part of the US they > were from. You should have seen how fast they would point to their > pin or patch and say, "No! I'm Canadian!". > > Richard >