Re: Driving to GFM

> > From: > Cotty > On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >> >t's very hilly here and years >> >ago, when this was a city of factories and working class people who >> >walked to work, they constructed dozens and dozens of sets of stairs up >> >and down the hills. They're a

Re: Driving to GFM (GPS systems)

LOL! ann sanfedele wrote: > graywolf wrote: > >> Well, just outside of town here, my Tom Tom Navigator 5.0 software on >> the pocket pc tells me to take a sharp right in 80 yards. If I do that I >> drive into a mountain. The thing is that the road was under construction >> when the GPS van wen

Re: Driving to GFM (GPS systems)

graywolf wrote: >Well, just outside of town here, my Tom Tom Navigator 5.0 software on >the pocket pc tells me to take a sharp right in 80 yards. If I do that I >drive into a mountain. The thing is that the road was under construction >when the GPS van went through and there was a detour from o

Re: Driving to GFM (GPS systems)

Well, just outside of town here, my Tom Tom Navigator 5.0 software on the pocket pc tells me to take a sharp right in 80 yards. If I do that I drive into a mountain. The thing is that the road was under construction when the GPS van went through and there was a detour from one side of of the ro

Re: Driving to GFM

On 3/16/07, Norm Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave, how could you find that funny, so insensitive. You are such a > bastard.. Brasilian coffee = beer (please, not that English swill). > Norm I like Frank Zappa, so take it from there. Dave > > David J Brooks wrote: > > If you wer;nt so b

RE: Driving to GFM

Alcohol & drugs do a pretty good job of it -- Bob > I guess nothing takes the place of common sense and awareness. ;>] > > -P > > Norm Baugher wrote: > > A few years back when I was living in Germany, some guy in > his Mercedes > > drove into the river, the Sat Nav didn't show that the >

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How dare you! English swill is the envy of the civilised world. -- Bob > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Norm Baugher > Sent: 17 March 2007 01:30 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Driving to GFM &g

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Dave, how could you find that funny, so insensitive. You are such a bastard.. Brasilian coffee = beer (please, not that English swill). Norm David J Brooks wrote: > If you wer;nt so busy pissing Cotty off, you could have called that guy > instead. > > LOL > > Dave > > On 3/16/07, Norm Baugher <[

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I guess nothing takes the place of common sense and awareness. ;>] -P Norm Baugher wrote: > A few years back when I was living in Germany, some guy in his Mercedes > drove into the river, the Sat Nav didn't show that the bridge was out > due to construction > Norm > > Bob W wrote: >> Sat

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If you wer;nt so busy pissing Cotty off, you could have called that guy instead. LOL Dave On 3/16/07, Norm Baugher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few years back when I was living in Germany, some guy in his Mercedes > drove into the river, the Sat Nav didn't show that the bridge was out > due to

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Do you wear one on each foot? Cotty wrote: > On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >> Five words: "Very, very *narrow* Land Rover" :-) >> > > Like this? > > > > !! > > -- Entropy Seminar: The results of a five yeer studee ntu the s

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On 16/3/07, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >LR3. Discovery series 3? -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailm

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On 3/16/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/3/07, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >LR3. > > Discovery series 3? > That's it. -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_

RE: Driving to GFM

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Cotty > Sent: 16 March 2007 22:21 > To: pentax list > Subject: Re: Driving to GFM > > On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >Five words

Re: Driving to GFM

A few years back when I was living in Germany, some guy in his Mercedes drove into the river, the Sat Nav didn't show that the bridge was out due to construction Norm Bob W wrote: > Sat Nav over here is notorious for leading people up one way streets, > across people's back gardens and throu

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On 3/16/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/3/07, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: > > >We have those here. They allow the upper crust to remind us of how > >ugly cars from the 80s were. They also spontaneously combust. > > ?? > > The Land Rover I drive has changed little from

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Cotty wrote: >On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>Five words: "Very, very *narrow* Land Rover" :-) > >Like this? > > LOL! Yes, those might work. (Actually, even those might be tight on a couple of the stairs.) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail Li

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Those are very cool, but what's William Robb doing in the picture? Tom C. >From: Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List >To: "pentax list" >Subject: Re: Driving to GFM >Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:21:19 + > >On 16/3/07

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On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >Five words: "Very, very *narrow* Land Rover" :-) Like this? !! -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__ || (O) | People, Places, Pastiche ||=|http://www.cottysnaps.com _

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On 16/3/07, Scott Loveless, discombobulated, unleashed: >We have those here. They allow the upper crust to remind us of how >ugly cars from the 80s were. They also spontaneously combust. ?? The Land Rover I drive has changed little from designs of the 1940s... -- Cheers, Cotty ___/\__

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On 3/16/07, Cotty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Two words: Land Rover :- > We have those here. They allow the upper crust to remind us of how ugly cars from the 80s were. They also spontaneously combust. Have a nice day. :-) -- Scott Loveless http://www.twosixteen.com Shoot more film! -

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Cotty wrote: >On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: > >>t's very hilly here and years >>ago, when this was a city of factories and working class people who >>walked to work, they constructed dozens and dozens of sets of stairs up >>and down the hills. They're all over the place,

Re: Driving to GFM

On 16/3/07, Mark Roberts, discombobulated, unleashed: >t's very hilly here and years >ago, when this was a city of factories and working class people who >walked to work, they constructed dozens and dozens of sets of stairs up >and down the hills. They're all over the place, some of them windin

RE: RE: Driving to GFM

> Might be interesting here in Pittsburgh. It's very hilly here > and years > ago, when this was a city of factories and working class people who > walked to work, they constructed dozens and dozens of sets of > stairs up > and down the hills. They're all over the place, some of them > windin

Re: RE: Driving to GFM

Bob W wrote: >Sat Nav over here is notorious for leading people up one way streets, >across people's back gardens and through shops. I had a good argument >a couple of years ago with some cretin who was putting too much trust >in his sat nav and trying to drive down my street, which has a locked >

RE: Driving to GFM

007 14:36 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: Driving to GFM > > I believe that if you go a bit upscale on the car rental you > get a gps > in the vehicle these days. But don't take my word for it I > have not been > able to afford to rent a car in the past 10

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On 3/15/07, Doug Franklin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > William Robb wrote: > > > I expect that the Interstate highways would make it the quickest, > > but I would prefer to avoid large urban areas. > > The raw route that Google gives doesn't look too bad. I can't speak for > the run across the Mid

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On 3/16/07, graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that if you go a bit upscale on the car rental you get a gps > in the vehicle these days. But don't take my word for it I have not been > able to afford to rent a car in the past 10 years or so. I do not > imagine that buying a GPS loaded

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Whoops, that is what happens when you loose track of the threads. You were I think speaking to Wheatfield Willy, sorry. An aside: Chicago is a nice place to visit, but you do not want to pass through, or even near, it. Avoid the area at all costs. And never, never, agree to haul a load of produ

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And Ann is not a bit shy about telling the bus driver what route to take. . Sorry, Ann, I could not resist . (Ann travels a heck of a lot more than I do.) More seriously, often I find it a lot quicker, if more frustrating, to go straight through town than to take that long boring bypass. -gra

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Doug Franklin wrote: >William Robb wrote: > > > >>I expect that the Interstate highways would make it the quickest, >>but I would prefer to avoid large urban areas. >> >> > >The raw route that Google gives doesn't look too bad. I can't speak for >the run across the Midwest, but the route it

Re: Driving to GFM

I believe that if you go a bit upscale on the car rental you get a gps in the vehicle these days. But don't take my word for it I have not been able to afford to rent a car in the past 10 years or so. I do not imagine that buying a GPS loaded with NA maps is an attractive idea to a guy from OZ

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P. J. Alling wrote: >> look at the map of Atlanta on Google, you'll see I-285 ... an 80+ mile > Which is as horrible as any downtown stretch of interstate can be during > rush hour. Worse. These days it's better to go through town most days if you have to move about during rush hour. The real k

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Bill - The Google route looks pretty good for the midwest. Your first bottleneck will be Minneapolis/St Paul, but if you hit it in the middle of the day you should be OK - avoid morning and evening rush hour. You can avoid Chicago altogether by taking I-39 from Rockford, IL down to Bloomingt

Re: Driving to GFM

Mapquest.com is almost always right. Paul On Mar 15, 2007, at 7:36 PM, William Robb wrote: > Hi List; > > > When I travelled to GFM in 05, I braved the world of airlines and > airport > security, rental cars and supplementary insurance. >> From this, I learned a couple of things. > I'm too much o

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> > look at the map of Atlanta on Google, you'll see I-285 ... an 80+ mile Which is as horrible as any downtown stretch of interstate can be during rush hour. Doug Franklin wrote: > William Robb wrote: > > >> I expect that the Interstate highways would make it the quickest, >> but I would pre

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William Robb wrote: > I expect that the Interstate highways would make it the quickest, > but I would prefer to avoid large urban areas. The raw route that Google gives doesn't look too bad. I can't speak for the run across the Midwest, but the route it gives from Louisville to GFM doesn't look