On Sun Apr-07-2013 11:36, Roy Witt (1:387/22) wrote to Roger Nelson:   
      
    RN> Yes, but if I'm not careful in pressing the gas pedal, I'll be thrown   
    RN> into the back seat (not literally).   
      
    RW> Too strong of a return spring on your gas pedal?   
      
   LOL!   
      
    RN>>> Because anyone going north to south is going downhill.  (-:0   
      
    RW>>> Not exactly. If your north starting place was on a plateau and you   
    RW>>> were going south, that might be down hill.   
      
    RN> Yes, exactly.   
      
    RW> What if you're driving west from the white cliffs of Dover?   
      
   More than likely you'll run into a flock of Bluebirds.  (-:   
   [...]   
      
    RN> I've only been to four cities iun Texas (Baytown, Dallas, Fort Worth,   
    RN> Houston), but have been through more and no farther west.   
      
    RW> FW is east of here, if you look at it in a parallel sense of   
    RW> direction.    
      
   Yep.   
      
    RW>> But, you're never going to be at or near sea level until you get to   
    RW>> Corpus...   
      
    RN> Or New Orleans.  (-:   
      
    RW> NO is -Sea Level. I've driven several cars at 36 feet below sea   
    RW> level.    
      
   That's what the smiley was for.  Two houses I lived in were destroyed by   
   Katrina because they were close to the lake front where the seawall was   
   breached.  Maybe I should have typed NEAR New Orleans.  I've always known N.O.   
   was below sea level, having been born there.   
   [...]   
      
    RN> There's another reason I didn't mention.  I've only seen the Pacific   
    RN> Ocean in pictures.   
      
    RW> I'd never seen the Gulf of Mexico except in pictures, until I moved   
    RW> here. The Pacific is a beautiful blue while the Gulf is an ugly   
    RW> brown full of jelly fish.   
      
   Go a little farther out and it is green until you get to the Gulf Stream,   
   which is a beautiful blue.  I've been in it.   
      
    RN>   A couple of years from now, if not sooner, I'm going to take a trip   
    RN> to Las Vegas and from there go to see the Grand Canyon.  My only   
    RN> regret will be I won't be able to ride a horse while there.   
      
    RW> There aren't any horses at the GC...only mules. Take the old steam   
    RW> engine train from Williams instead. It stops at the GC lodge and   
    RW> you can get a room and stay for a few days. There's also a   
    RW> helicopter ride over the canyon, which is much easier than riding a   
    RW> mule to the bottom.    
      
   Surely there are stables nearby where a horse can be rented.  I thought I saw   
   an ad a few years back when I almost went there -- Apache something-or-other.   
   [...]   
      
    RN> What a tangent!  (-:  Make that northwest and southeast.   
      
    RW> You might want to look a little closer: The canal itself runs in a   
    RW> east/west direction in Panama. However, ships traveling from the   
    RW> Pacific to the Atlantic travel in a northwest direction, while   
    RW> ships traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific head Southeast.   
      
   Isn't that what I wrote?  (-:   
   [...]   
      
    RN> I find that difficult to believe and since this didn't come up before   
    RN> you made the trip, you naturally wouldn't notice since you wouldn't   
    RN> have had that on your mind.   
      
    RW> Oh but I would. I always keep track of my mileage and how much fuel   
    RW> I use, where we fuel up and where we eat (not necessarily at the   
    RW> same stop).    
      
    RW> I never take such a trip without planning the route first. Indeed,   
    RW> when I didn't like the route traveled to Illinois on one particular   
    RW> trip (IH-40 to US54 at Tucumcari, NM northeastward to Wichita, KS   
    RW> (IH35)), I sat at my parent's kitchen table and planned a different   
    RW> and faster route back to San Diego.  US54 was scenic, but a   
    RW> terrible road to use if you're in a hurry. My dad recommended it,   
    RW> so I considered the source and didn't take it home...   
      
   I didn't mean to make that assumption, so it's different for us.  (-:0   
   [...]   
      
      
   Regards,   
      
   Roger    
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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