Geez. What is your problem? There are several people here from
California and at least one who lives in Berkeley. I have lived there
and it was one of the most interesting places I have ever lived.
Berkeley is just a much a part of California as Orange County,
Hollywood, Placerville or San Francisco.
It is Sedona, not "Sodona".
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On May 26, 2006, at 1:09 PM, Jay Drew wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
> <snip>
>>
>> A few comments/observations:
> <snip>
>>
>> I saw more Frenchmen (and women) in a month than I did on a week long
>> visit to France. I guess the weak dollar makes it very inexpensive
>> to visit here and lots of Europeans were doing it.
>>
>> I saw lots of guys wearing what looked like "pedal pushers". I
>> wonder if that's a European thing or maybe a California thing? You
>> sure don't see guys wearing anything like that around here.
>
> I'm in California, and I don't see pedal pusher stuff for guys.
> But maybe
> it's in Berkeley thing, that's not part of California, or anywhere
> else.
>
> More importantly, what where the French women wearing?
>
>> The least we paid for gas was $2.659 per gallon in Tennessee. The
>> most we paid for gas was $3.259 per gallon at the Desert View service
>> center in the Grand Canyon national park. Just outside the south
>> entrance the price was $3.359.
>
> Ah, the good old days of cheap gas. And I'm saying that $3.359 is
> beginning
> to look cheap (OUCH!!!)
>
>> I believe that the majority of Hummers sold in the US must be to
>> Californians and a goodly portion of them were visiting Sodona at the
>> same time we were. Please don't ask what I was doing in Sodona.
>
> I am going to ask, were you in Sodona photographing the elusive
> California
> Yuppie?
>
> <snip>
>
>> Some of my worst moments were at Zion, Bryce, and the south rim of
>> the Grand Canyon - loads of tour buses and lots of people that
>> haven't learned how to lock their car doors with the remote without
>> pushing the button twice and causing the car horn to beep! I'd like
>> to string up the engineer (or marketing guy) that thought that was a
>> desirable feature to add.
>
> God forbid that they actually push the lock button on the door then
> shut it.
> But they may be testing the car alarm before they go off on a hike
> where
> they wouldn't hear the alarm or wouldn't be able to get back to it
> before
> the car was stripped clean.
>
> I went through those three areas in the Fall many, many years ago. No
> crowds and the colors of Fall. There may be crowds now, hopefully
> the fall
> colors still occur.
>
> Jay
>
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