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John Jung
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Location: Surprise, AZ, USA
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 Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:08 am Post subject: Mounment Valley Photos |
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Group,
It is time to start thinking about Monument Valley this May. To increase the interest, I posted some photos on Flickr. Check them out.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrjung/sets/72057594107890481/
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Roger Lee
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Location: Tucson, Az.
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:27 pm Post subject: Re: Mounment Valley Photos |
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Hi John,
Nice photos. Hope to see you in MV again this tear.
Roger lee
Tucson, Az
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John Hauck
Joined: 09 Jan 2006
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Location: Titus, Alabama (hauck's holler)
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| Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:43 pm Post subject: Mounment Valley Photos |
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Roger L:
Hope to arrive MV 18 May, or maybe 17 May.
Met some new folks at S&F that live in an airpark south of
Albuquerque. Want to stop off and see them. Also plan on spending
the night with Domique Perez in NM, second night out. Usually stay at
Sandia East Airpark, but this will make for a pleasant change.
| Quote: | From NM, will probably go up to the south and west of Albuquerque,
then northwest to Gallup and MV. Flew home that way from MV a couple
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years ago. Was a very nice flight.
Really getting excited about the Fourth Annual Unplanned/Unorganized
Kolb Flyin at MV, UT. If this year is anywhere near as much fun as
the last three have been, then it will also be an overwelming success.
john h
mkIII
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WhiskeyVictor36(at)aol.co
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 6:08 pm Post subject: Mounment Valley Photos |
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In a message dated 4/16/2006 1:09:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jrjungjr(at)yahoo.com writes:
It is time to start thinking about Monument Valley this May. To increase the
intrest, I posted some photos an Flickr. Check them out.
Hi John,
That really is some fine photography. Thanks for the posting.
Bill Varnes
Original Kolb FireStar
Audubon NJ
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Possum
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
Posts: 112
Location: Georgia
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| Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 10:46 pm Post subject: Mounment Valley Photos |
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At 10:08 PM 4/17/2006, you wrote:
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In a message dated 4/16/2006 1:09:39 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jrjungjr(at)yahoo.com writes:
It is time to start thinking about Monument Valley this May.
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This is no ordinary adventure, but the celebrated
=93Running of the Kolbs=94 more than 2,100 miles
through America's Heartland - the granddaddy of
long flights - from Georgia, at least, it wanders
across how many states? I don't even know!
Through hills and mountains whose very
names Blue Ridge, Smokies, Rockies, -seems an
invitation to amble. Who could not feel an urge,
as the naturalist John Muir once put it, to
"throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an
old sack and jump over the back fence", I could
set off from home, fly over 2,000 miles from
Georgia and fly over the rough and wild wilderness few have ever seen.
A little voice in my head says: "Sounds neat!
Let's do it!" I've formed a number of
rationalizations. It would get me fit after years
flying around the pattern and wandering back and
forth to Florida. It would be an interesting and
reflective way to acquaint myself with the scale
and beauty of my native land. It would be useful
(I not quite sure in what way, but I am sure
nonetheless) to learn to fend for myself in the
wilderness and live off the land (eat those
orange crackers at the FBO every meal).
When the guys in leather jackets and pop-up tents
sit around the campfire talking about fearsome
things done in the air, I would no longer have to
feel like such a cupcake. I want a little of that
swagger that comes with being able to gaze at a
far horizon through eyes of chipped granite and
say with a slow, manly sniff, "Yeah, I've shit in the woods too."
Then I came gradually to realize that this is way
beyond=AD way beyond =AD anything I had attempted
before. For instance, the woods of Alabama are
full of peril =AD rattlesnakes and water moccasins
and nests of copperheads; bobcats, bears,
coyotes, wolves, and wild boar; hillbillies
destabilize by gross quantities of impure corn
liquor and generations of profoundly unbiblical
sex; rabies-crazed skunks, raccoons, and
squirrels; merciless fire ants and ravening
blackfly; poison ivy, poison sumac, poison oak,
and poison salamanders; even a scattering of
moose lethally deranged by a parasitic worm that
burrows a nest in their brains and befuddles them
into chasing hapless campers through remote,
sunny meadows to their death =85 and that=92s just
Alabama! I've heard four separate stories
(always related with a chuckle) of campers and
bears sharing tents for a few confused and lively
moments; stories of fliers abruptly vaporized
("tweren't nothing left of him but a scorch
mark") by tree trunk-sized bolts of lightning
when caught in sudden storms and sent spinning on
to distant valley floors. If you're lucky you can
hope to spend the rest of your life propped in a
chair with a bib around your neck. "What is
certain is that it is a long, long way, and it is
not easy. Then you carry: a three-season tent,
self-inflating sleeping pad, assorted pots and
pans, collapsible eating utensils, plastic dishes
and cups, stuff sacks, patching kit, sleeping
bag, bungee cords, water bottles tie downs,
waterproof matches, a big knife for killing bears
and hillbillies, insulated long johns and
undershirts, four bandannas, and lots of other stuff.
"This wouldn't be so bad, I told myself. But
secretly I know that I am quite wrong. Maybe when
I'm older and don't have so much to lose? Maybe
next year - when I have a new engine.
Yeah....next year would be good, right Larry?
(Plagiarized =96 but bet you can't guess from whom).
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