On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:20:07 -0400, thunder
wrote:

On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 12:51:20 -0400, Harry Krause wrote:


When I was a kid and we visited the grandparents in Revere, I used to swim
in the ocean at Revere Beach and also at Nantasket Beach. Doubt I would do
it now. I do recall that about 10 years ago, I went for a swim up at Bar
Harbor, and the water temp was only about 60. Brrrrrrr.

Yup, something about kids, they are different. How many times have you
seen a kid, blue lipped, shivering uncontrollably, obviously hypothermic,
telling their parents they aren't cold, and want to go back in the water?
When I was way younger, 60 degrees was refreshing. Now, I find it
literally bone chilling.

When I was a kid my parents took the family for a vacation. Dad's idea
of a vacation was to hook up the travel trailer and drive 14 hours a
day for the entire 4 weeks he had off. So we started in WV and drove
(almost all backroads) through the Dakotas and over to Oregon. We kids
were just as excited as hell to get to the Pacific Ocean and even
though the wind was a bit chilly my brother and me were adament that
we were going swimming in the ocean. We couldn't quite grasp why no
one was in the water and everyone was wearing fairly heavy jackets and
long pants. We rushed down the beach and ran full tilt into the water.

Once we caught our breathe, we got the hell out of there and tried to
get our blood flowing again ;-)

It was a great dissapointment to us that even though we traveled down
the coast all the way to San Francisco it never got warm enough to go
in the ocean. At SF dad turned left and drove back to WV through
Nevada and Utah. Entire 4 weeks we only stayed at two places for more
than one night and never more than 2 nights. I am now much more a "get
somewhere quick and stay" kinda vacation man. Oh yeah, on that road
trip dad had put an 8 track player in the car to supplement the AM
radio. We had two (count 'em - 2) tapes.... and you know there
weren't any AM stations in most of the midwest in 1968....

Dave Hall