On 11/8/10 12:10 PM, Clay Blackwell wrote:
/ /I live on the east coast of the US in Virginia, don't
like airports at all (although once air-borne, I'm
fine...), and I definitely don't have a bottonless
wallet. But it *is* a nice fantasy!
If you assume a bottomless wallet, all else falls into
Bev is so very right!
Two hours driving on an open motorway will take you about 140 miles and more if
you exceed the speed limit. Two hours driving on the congested roads might
only get you 50-60 miles on a good day, 15 miles on a bad day, and on a very
bad day you could be sitting in a
This can happen in the US too! On Friday night we tried to drive downtown to
see our son's opening night in a trilogy of plays by G B Shaw. In 1 hour and
20 mins we went 10.9 miles and still had 11 mins driving to go. We were then
10 minutes late for the start and turned round and gave up, as
More perspective -
61.4 million people in the UK.
3.8 million in Oregon.
Vancouver Island (where I live) is 1/8th the size of the UK.
Population, 0.75 million.
To give a perspective to members around the world, Oregon is about the same
land area as
the country of England.
I wonder if the
/ /I live on the east coast of the US in Virginia, don't like airports
at all (although once air-borne, I'm fine...), and I definitely don't
have a bottonless wallet. But it *is* a nice fantasy!
And then there's the issue of the currency exchange, which right now
doesn't inspire me to buy a
Reading the new posts from Lace News makes me so envious of all of my
UK friends who have so many wonderful lace days to look forward to in
the weeks ahead!!! Since I routinely travel 2 - 5 (or more!) hours to
our twice-yearly lace days, I can imagine that many of you could go to
numerous
- Original Message -
Since I routinely travel 2 - 5 (or more!) hours to
our twice-yearly lace days, I can imagine that many of you could go to
numerous lace days within that travel time!
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There is only one lace day in the state of Oregon,
I think that the list of lace days available in the UK indicates there
are still quite a few groups able to host such events. Yay!
I am not so sure that it is a smorgasbord of choices for every
lacemaker there, something comes to mind about 'you can't get there
from here' even though 'here
