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Post by welle on Sept 2, 2012 20:09:13 GMT 2
Don't get eaten by the bears welle ! ;D Lol, funny you should mention that. Just got back from Yosemite a couple of days ago. I now have a cooler with a bear claw puncture mark in it. I had left it outside as it was empty-big mistake. Woke up the next morning to find it tipped over with paw prints and the claw mark in it. I also now can proudly say I chased away a bear. Sat at the campfire one night about 30 feet from the picnic table. Heard a noise, shone my flashlight. There it was, our not so little bear friend. It's head was above the table when it was on all fours. I puffed out my chest, walked towards it and yelled the way you're supposed to. I was ignored. Actually the bear came around the table towards me, thoroughly unimpressed. So I threw a drinking cup on the ground just in front of it-that sent it running. Phew! Yosemite has a real problem with the bears and food. You're not even supposed to leave things like toothpaste in your car as it might get broken into. Any food and any scented items are attractive to the bears. The campsites have metal bear boxes that need to stay closed at all times. |
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Post by welle on Sept 2, 2012 20:15:10 GMT 2
It was a great trip overall. Stayed for 6 days. Slept outside without a tent every night despite the bears. Went on some awesome hikes in pristine landscapes. Swam in mountain rivers and a high up mountain lake we had all to ourselves. I'm a big Yosemite fan now. The landscape is untouched almost everywhere. The water is so clear in the rivers it is like crystal.
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Post by auntieannie on Sept 3, 2012 9:47:48 GMT 2
Nächster halt, Bern!
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 3, 2012 12:01:52 GMT 2
Wow Welle that sounds kind of scary !!
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 3, 2012 12:02:13 GMT 2
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Post by james on Sept 8, 2012 11:37:38 GMT 2
Wow!! sounds amazing....did you write up a will before you left.
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Post by wikki on Sept 8, 2012 18:41:41 GMT 2
10 days to Hawaii....
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Post by tarra on Sept 13, 2012 17:54:11 GMT 2
1 more sleep!!!!!
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Post by wikki on Sept 13, 2012 20:39:43 GMT 2
4 more sleeps.....!
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Post by rikita on Sept 13, 2012 21:52:21 GMT 2
starting to think i might not do my short trip to munich... feeling quite exhausted lately, and all the cheap train tickets were sold out ages ago of course, so i'd have to take the bus or go with car sharing, i.e. in a stranger's car... not sure i feel like a 6-7 hour car ride right now...
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 19, 2012 6:08:44 GMT 2
TAke it easy if you need to, Riki. 6 or 7 hours in a car with a stranger sounds stressful. I went with Mitfahr Zentrale from Hannover to Freibourg am Briesgau, and back again later. One of my drivers was lovely and I had a great time and we stayed in touch for years after; but the other driver was weird and it was a stressful day. Don't put yourself through that if you're not feeling up to it!
I just found out I'm going to London for a few days in October for work. I'm still trying to convince them I need to stay over the weekend!
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Post by rikita on Sept 19, 2012 8:18:03 GMT 2
yeah, i think i won't go... i already took off work for it, but there is so much to do, i can also need a free day where i just stay at home... and sleep in...
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Post by welle on Sept 19, 2012 10:44:31 GMT 2
Sleeping in sounds good
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Post by rikita on Sept 19, 2012 21:11:12 GMT 2
indeed... so tired lately...
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 19, 2012 23:03:59 GMT 2
Well, today my 2 days in London had 3 days in Paris added to it, so it looks like the whole trip will be at least a week. I'm not very interested in the work that I have to do in Paris, but it will be nice to have magret de canard again!
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Post by Hedonista on Sept 19, 2012 23:54:48 GMT 2
Off to London on Oct 15th (well Herts) visiting a school for our daughter to apply for an A-level boarding place starting Sept 3013 along with her and Mrs. H then they fly home alone alone while I fly off for a 3-week work trip to Asia.
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Post by rikita on Sept 20, 2012 7:56:31 GMT 2
scrubb - how about you add a few days berlin to that too, to make the journey worth while?
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 20, 2012 12:08:22 GMT 2
Off to London on Oct 15th (well Herts) visiting a school for our daughter to apply for an A-level boarding place starting Sept 3013 along with her and Mrs. H then they fly home alone alone while I fly off for a 3-week work trip to Asia. Where in Herts are you going? I lived 26 years in Kings Langley (about 5 miles from St Albans). Curiously Fat Chap also spent a bit of time in KL though after I left. |
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Post by shrjeff on Sept 20, 2012 12:41:00 GMT 2
our new flat is finally getting organized... then we're off to the u.s., boston area with belize snuck in on our way west...
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Post by OnlyMark on Sept 20, 2012 13:48:45 GMT 2
Short visit to Beirut tomorrow to meet up with the wife and celebrate my daughters' birthday.
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Post by lumi on Sept 20, 2012 16:56:24 GMT 2
I might go to the cinema this weekend - that's about as much of a trip as I will be taking for a while I think. Mr lumi however is in Turkey once again and it's looking like he's never going to come home.
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Post by happytraveller on Sept 20, 2012 16:58:18 GMT 2
Oh Jeff say hi to Belize !!!
I have holidays next week but I think we'll just stay at home and drill holes to hang up pictures and stuff like that.
Might do a couple of day hikes though, hopefully the weather will stay so nice !
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Post by Scrubb on Sept 20, 2012 20:20:39 GMT 2
Rikita, I'd love to get to Berlin but it just isn't going to happen this time!
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Post by Hedonista on Sept 20, 2012 21:02:34 GMT 2
Off to London on Oct 15th (well Herts) visiting a school for our daughter to apply for an A-level boarding place starting Sept 3013 along with her and Mrs. H then they fly home alone alone while I fly off for a 3-week work trip to Asia. Where in Herts are you going? I lived 26 years in Kings Langley (about 5 miles from St Albans). Curiously Fat Chap also spent a bit of time in KL though after I left. We will be visiting a school in Harpended Baz. Did Fat Chap live in KL and you also? |
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Post by rikita on Sept 20, 2012 21:51:50 GMT 2
Rikita, I'd love to get to Berlin but it just isn't going to happen this time! oh well... next time then... |
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Post by Baz Faz on Sept 20, 2012 23:09:55 GMT 2
Where in Herts are you going? I lived 26 years in Kings Langley (about 5 miles from St Albans). Curiously Fat Chap also spent a bit of time in KL though after I left. We will be visiting a school in Harpended Baz. Did Fat Chap live in KL and you also? Yes, but we didn't coincide. I lived in the last house in Harthall Lane before it becames woods. Iain lived in a conversion of the Ovaltine works. |
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Post by kerouac2 on Sept 20, 2012 23:16:32 GMT 2
I am still only planning trips by surface travel in Europe for the moment, but I have informed the proper people that I will travel to Cambodia when Henning's ashes are scattered in the Mekong next spring if outsiders are accepted.
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Post by kuskiwi on Oct 5, 2012 2:46:12 GMT 2
Two weeks in Portugal and two in Paris in Jan/Feb. Next week in the NZ big smoke however work orientated so that'll take the gloss of it.
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Post by shrjeff on Oct 5, 2012 9:37:05 GMT 2
off to new haven ct the end of the month - then belize - then on to california... home the beginning of december...
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Post by wikki on Oct 12, 2012 0:43:07 GMT 2
Las Vegas next week for a couple of days.
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