"Railtramp" wrote in
ups.com:

riverman wrote:

I'm off for a couple of 10 day canoe trips in the wilds of Maine,
leaving in about 12 hours, so I'm gonna miss all the fireworks until I
get to read the backposts in mid June. But until then, TRY not to
track this dogs**t all over the house.

Hee hee hee

--riverman

Sounds like fun Riverman. I just got back from some ancestal homeland
wanderings and hope to honor my promise to myself not to waste this
summer (like too many in the past).

I suspect there are still lots of formerly active r.b.p folks who still
check the group. It is real easy to read these days since the number
of posts are way down. Most of the real disruptors are known and the
Google profile is an easy way to access posting histories. A couple of
clicks easily reveals an individual's web persona.

I have always believed that using signing with real life names keeps
one honest and accountable. Maybe that is why there was such a solid
core to r.b.p years back - we all used our IRL names. Hard to build
relationships with phantoms.

FWIW, I've been participating on usenet for 21 years and have always posted
under my RL name.

One my flight back to the US, I flew over Labrador and had my nose
glued to the window. Looks like a very interesting place to paddle.
Anyone with experience there?

Check out a book called "Rowing to Latitude". In it, the author and her
husband row (he paddles a kayak for some of the trips) the coast of
Labrador, as well as several other expediations including most of the
coastline of Alaska, the Yukon river, a good portion of Greenland, the
entire coastline of Norway, and a circumnavigation of Spitzbergen. Even
though the author rows (a boat that was converted from a Necky Amaruk tandem
kayak), the book is well written and it sounded like Labrador was one of the
most enjoyable expeditions.

John Fereira wrote:

FWIW, I've been participating on usenet for 21 years and have always posted
under my RL name.

One my flight back to the US, I flew over Labrador and had my nose
glued to the window. Looks like a very interesting place to paddle.
Anyone with experience there?

Check out a book called "Rowing to Latitude". In it, the author and her
husband row (he paddles a kayak for some of the trips) the coast of
Labrador, as well as several other expediations including most of the
coastline of Alaska, the Yukon river, a good portion of Greenland, the
entire coastline of Norway, and a circumnavigation of Spitzbergen. Even
though the author rows (a boat that was converted from a Necky Amaruk tandem
kayak), the book is well written and it sounded like Labrador was one of the
most enjoyable expeditions.

I actually have the book and read it a couple of years back. Thanks
for the reminder - I will go back and re-read it. I recall that they
did not like Greenland very much because it was so trashy (who would've
thought). And I loved the ToughLuckKabloona wedding vow.

The interior of Labrador looked awesome. I also read the Davidson &
Rugge book Great Heart. Of course, one would like to avoid the death
by starvation experience. It does look like a place that someoe could
go and get lost for a while.

The ice was off most of Hudson Bay with some still in parts of James
Bay (NW side mostly) and some off the NE coast of Labrador.

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As for naming, you were actually one of a number of r.b.p people who
inspired me to use my RL name in my usenet newbie days. I think it was
the high number of "real people" who made the group as strong as it was
for a while. On the flip side , it has to be remembered that both
Scottt W. and Tim I. used their RL names too.

Blakely
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Blakely LaCroix
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

The best adventure is yet to come