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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 -- 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...... |
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By God what an UGLY country
Yeah, but hardly anyone lives there. Looks like Texas. Lots of people
live there. -- "j" ganz @@ www.sailnow.com "Joe" wrote in message om... See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like. http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg Joe |
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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. |
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I was talking about the ugly part. :-)
-- "j" ganz @@ 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
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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 |
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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 -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Joe wrote: See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like. http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg Joe 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 areas. You see, never in their lives have they been confronted by a clear 360 degrees of level horizon, with no evidence of human structure or activity other than the road they are on. Just like being at sea, in fact, for which they also experience similar feelings of revulsion, and, indeed, terror. You may find professional counselling will assist you in conquering this fear of wide, apparently featureless horizons. You will need to get rid of your generalised agoraphobia first. Best wishes for an unbounded future unlimited by close horizons,crimped cities and cramped docks. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Learn wat lies below the waves of cyberspace! http://music.download.com/internetopera http://internetopera.netfirms.com |
The Tree of Life
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 -- Flying Tadpole |
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A local sort-of equivalent is on the Oodnadatta track near Lake
Eyre, though in this case if you've gone to sleep on the dirt, gravel, holes and general banging you deserve to die anyway. Multiple sculptures including a giant dog from a derelict railway tank and a sunflower from an old windpump. Onl;y immediately available photo is "Planehenge", at eh bottom of http://www.ace.net.au/schooner/asapo.htm You can skip the reading to get to the picture... Problem I always used to have was with the cypress pines, beautiful dark green stately trees until an eagle perches in one, then tou realise it's actually 20 feet high... Bart Senior wrote: 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 -- Flying Tadpole -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Yep, Taddy, I'm pretty sure that's exactly what Bart was saying!
Scout "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... 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 -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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The absolute funniest thing about that story is that you can't stop because
THERE'S NO PLACE TO PARK! LOLOL! Scout "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 -- Flying Tadpole |
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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...... |
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"Michael" wrote
..... Now I'm entering my third year without a car,..... Unpatriotic pervert! Prolly avoids credit card debt too! |
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That's a good stretch of highway to catch up on your sleep.
Scotty "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 -- Flying Tadpole |
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Flying Tadpole wrote in message ...
Joe wrote: See for yourself. This is what 99% of Oz looks like. http://www.cockatoo.ch/tag15/outback.jpg Joe 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. Im not revulsed Tad, Ive been outback in the 80's. Just not my favorite place ok. It's one I commonly meet amongst tourists new to such areas. You see, never in their lives have they been confronted by a clear 360 degrees of level horizon, with no evidence of human structure or activity other than the road they are on. Just like being at sea, in fact, No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. for which they also experience similar feelings of revulsion, and, indeed, terror. Sheeeeze what a bunch of wusses, myself I could live at sea and never return to land. You may find professional counselling will assist you in conquering this fear of wide, apparently featureless horizons. You will need to get rid of your generalised agoraphobia first. Yadada yadada ............... What ever. Just dont try to pass off a wasteland as the sea or ocean Ive been to both and much prefer the sea or oceans. Big difference tad. Best wishes for an unbounded future unlimited by close horizons,crimped cities and cramped docks. Thanks Same 2 ya! Good luck on the tie breaker joe |
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The Newport News Marine Terminal is one of the nicest, cleanest ports on the
east coast, IMO. Scotty "Michael" wrote in message ... 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...... |
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Is this difference of opinion simply a difference in vantage
point, between the landbound Scotty and the seabound Michael? FT Scott Vernon wrote: The Newport News Marine Terminal is one of the nicest, cleanest ports on the east coast, IMO. Scotty "Michael" wrote in message ... 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...... -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Joe wrote: No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. And so, indeed, is what you've pictured. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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The ocean is a dessert with it's life underground,and the perfect disguise
above. In the dessert, you can remember your name, for there ain't no one for to give you no pain...... America "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Joe wrote: No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. And so, indeed, is what you've pictured. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Brilliant observation Tadpole. Perhaps Mikes been visiting the working
girls down in the seedy side of NN. Scotty "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Is this difference of opinion simply a difference in vantage point, between the landbound Scotty and the seabound Michael? FT Scott Vernon wrote: The Newport News Marine Terminal is one of the nicest, cleanest ports on the east coast, IMO. Scotty "Michael" wrote in message ... 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...... -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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"Michael" wrote in message ...
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. I purched RedCloud in Sabine, It was sitting uner the Sunshine bridge. Also rebuildt a few crewboats there in Orange. Also pushed a barge that brought all the fuel to sabines Grasso fuel dock. It aint the loveliest port in Texas but it has deep water and it's a good place to stack drilling rigs. besides It half way in the best state in the country. The ugliest spot in the country? I'd have to nominate Newport News, VA. The prettiest spot? Newport News in the rearview mirror. Bwahahahaha Newport news, what a dump, Next to No**** Vargina. Not much there but Navy and Submarines for sure. Im still holding my breath until you send me the DG burgee. Joe 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...... |
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true. And at the time that song came out, I was on a scientific
expedition crossing the Simpson Desert, in the days when that was a major, major undertaking. (Not any more, plenty of access provided one has enough fuel and water and the access makes it possible to carry enough without fuss). Scott Vernon wrote: The ocean is a dessert with it's life underground,and the perfect disguise above. In the dessert, you can remember your name, for there ain't no one for to give you no pain...... America "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Joe wrote: No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. And so, indeed, is what you've pictured. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Crossing in/on what? Did you get to meet Homer?
Scotty "Flying Tadpole" wrote ... true. And at the time that song came out, I was on a scientific expedition crossing the Simpson Desert, in the days when that was a major, major undertaking. (Not any more, plenty of access provided one has enough fuel and water and the access makes it possible to carry enough without fuss). Scott Vernon wrote: The ocean is a dessert with it's life underground,and the perfect disguise above. In the dessert, you can remember your name, for there ain't no one for to give you no pain...... America "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Joe wrote: No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. And so, indeed, is what you've pictured. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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In: IIRC, three landrovers, one toyota (one of the first model
landcruisers--yes, it was _that_ long ago). The 1939 expedition used camels. Crocker the botanist and his camel didn't get on, so he walked. On: 1,335 sandridges or thereabouts. By the time we did it, there'd been a few years previously an attempt by a French petroleum company to explore, so there was one track which ahd almost vanished by the time we moved. We were mightily p*ssed off to arrive after 1100 dunes at the corner of NT, Queensland & Sout Oz to discover a drunken tourist party in residence, who'd driven up from the south along an interdune corridor, in 2-wheel drive all the way, following a rig road that had just been driven through with no-one's knowledge (in theory, a Ntaional Park....) Bit like arriving at a remote secluded anchorage in a hard to get at little bay a long way from anywhere and discovering a drunken bunch of powerboaters there... Scott Vernon wrote: Crossing in/on what? Did you get to meet Homer? Scotty "Flying Tadpole" wrote ... true. And at the time that song came out, I was on a scientific expedition crossing the Simpson Desert, in the days when that was a major, major undertaking. (Not any more, plenty of access provided one has enough fuel and water and the access makes it possible to carry enough without fuss). Scott Vernon wrote: The ocean is a dessert with it's life underground,and the perfect disguise above. In the dessert, you can remember your name, for there ain't no one for to give you no pain...... America "Flying Tadpole" wrote in message ... Joe wrote: No it is not. the sea is always changing, and is full of life. And so, indeed, is what you've pictured. -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera -- Flying Tadpole ------------------------- Break Away, Sail Away and putz away now at http://music.download.com/internetopera |
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Come to think of it there are places in the world where that stretch
ofhighway would go on for two three days. Oz for one place. It's a big world out there. You just gotta get away from Mexico and go a little bitfurther! M. "Scott Vernon" wrote in message ... That's a good stretch of highway to catch up on your sleep. Scotty "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 -- Flying Tadpole |
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