The Tree of Life
 

It works too! Worked so well I started wondering why am I doing this?
Driving everywhere, taking huge chances with my life every day. Flirting
with death. Now I'm entering my third year without a car, total transport
costs out of pocket have never exceeded $2,000 a year. When I need a vehicle
I rent one and it's next to brand new. I don't worry about freeways or
commutes or idiot drivers at all. When I use a taxi it's an automatic $75
or less deduction courtesy of the IRS rules with no receipt required as long
asI do something business related (like buying new work clothes . . .a pair
of socks?) Got a job where I easily walk to work. Learned that owning a
car is not a necessity it's an inconvenience. I've discovered the true
meaning of the Tree of Life. Which is . . ....work and live on the water
and if you have to have a vehicle . .. buy a dinghy! Got this brand new, off
theshow room floor fully equipped Bombard Typhoon with with ported and
relieved lugbolt holes, 12 volt bellhousing and . . ...and . . . . . ..

M.

"Bart Senior" wrote in message
et...

This thead got me thinking about a stretch of Interstate 80
west of Salt Lake City.

The road is perfectly straight for probably 40 miles or more.
Off in the distance you see what looks like a huge tree. You
can't quite make out what it is. Each mile--still the same
thoughts. What the heck is it?

Finally after what seems like hours, you pull up alongside
this weird metal scupture 100 or so feet high that looks like
an tree with huge balls instead of leaves. I later learned it's
called "The Tree of Utah. [Metaphor] or The Tree of Life.

There is no parking. The idea is to keep bored drivers on
this stretch of highway from falling asleep at the wheel. The
scupture keeps dsrivers minds working and more alert.

Finally, you see this weird things and you spend the next
hunderd miles, wondering about it.

http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attra...Nmetaphor.html

http://utahpictures.com/Bonneville_Salt_Flats.php

Bart Senior

Flying Tadpole wrote

Joe wrote:

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

Ah Joe, as one who lives and works a lot of the time on the
sweeping plainlands of the arid interior, I _do_ understand your
revulsion. It's one I commonly meet amongst tourists new to such
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Flying Tadpole

By God what an UGLY country
 

Must be talking about Port Arthur and Beaumont area? The home of Janis
Joplin amongst others. We go up the Sabine every trip these days.

The ugliest spot in the country? I'd have to nominate Newport News, VA.
The prettiest spot? Newport News in the rearview mirror.

M.










"Vito" wrote in message
...
Yea, but that's not *really* Texas - it's Baja Louisiana. Texas is on the
outskirts of Del Rio ....

"FamilySailor" wrote in message
...
Depends on what part of Texas. Here in Southeast Texas we are on the
edge
of
a rain forest......

By God what an UGLY country
 

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

Joe

By God what an UGLY country
 

Yeah, but hardly anyone lives there. Looks like Texas. Lots of people
live there.

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"Joe" wrote in message
om...
See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

Joe

By God what an UGLY country
 

Looks like most of Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Utah.

Joe wrote

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

By God what an UGLY country
 

Depends on what part of Texas. Here in Southeast Texas we are on the edge of
a rain forest that runs East into Florida. There is a National Reserve here
called "The Big Thicket" we get over 100 inches of rain each year and it is
lush, damp, green and humid here. Texas is dry to the West, more or less.
South Texas in the valley they grow oranges and grapefruit and have white
sand beaches on South Padre Island. East Texas is hill country covered with
100' pine trees. What was I saying....... Oh, it depends on what part of
Texas you are talking about.

By God what an UGLY country
 

I was talking about the ugly part. :-)

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www.sailnow.com

"FamilySailor" wrote in message
...
Depends on what part of Texas. Here in Southeast Texas we are on the edge
of
a rain forest that runs East into Florida. There is a National Reserve
here
called "The Big Thicket" we get over 100 inches of rain each year and it
is
lush, damp, green and humid here. Texas is dry to the West, more or less.
South Texas in the valley they grow oranges and grapefruit and have white
sand beaches on South Padre Island. East Texas is hill country covered
with
100' pine trees. What was I saying....... Oh, it depends on what part of
Texas you are talking about.

By God what an UGLY country
 

Smile.....

By God what an UGLY country
 

On Wed, 07 Jul 2004 20:26:01 GMT, "Bart Senior"
wrote:

Looks like most of Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Utah.

Joe wrote

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg


LOL, it's got too much grass to be New Mexico. Other than that I
agree. :o)
Mark E. Williams

By God what an UGLY country
 

Perceptive, Bart. Agronomy measurement techniques intended for
sagebrush country can be applied without change to saltbush
country: yield identical standard errors and other statistical
parameters despite a totally different taxonomic suite of
species, with almost no overlap. The ecosystems functionally and
physically are equivalent. Hence in the days when the US
actively managed its rangelands, the now defunct Journal of Range
Management was required reading for Oz range management also.


Bart Senior wrote:

Looks like most of Nevada, Wyoming, Arizona,
New Mexico, and Utah.

Joe wrote

See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like.

http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg

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