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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
- such ruthless honesty undermines my sales pitch somewhat, Capt. Joe
----------------------------------------![]() If you decide to try Base Camping with Minnesota Chrunchers, there will be camp fires to scare off the few mosquitoes that have not become inactive yet, and plenty of insect repellent will be at your disposal, and double mosquito netting .... not to mention the potions needed to quell the urge to scratch from those unavoidable bites happening nevertheless. What? Do I hear your say that you are still itching, deltavee? ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Sep 29, 2017 5:21:40 AM] |
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Walking in New York City, walking in Washington DC, walking close to home in Denmark this afternoon ....
- everything has its charms. ![]() It may look like some locations in Minnesota where I have never been for real except for passing on the Amtrak "Empire Builder" by night. In my imagination, my tent could sit on a lakeside like this, and I would enjoy letting my mind wander in the silence only to be disturbed by the high pitched buzzing of - don't say it. The M-word .... I wouldn't mind company - preferably by someone who knows how to clean and cook the trouts I caught while I stuff the potatoes under the embers and retrieve the cool beer cans from the water. |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
![]() .... it just held back because it was confused, too, over the two+ days with but a few power naps. It is comparable to a hangover, I think. I'm lucky enough to have experienced more jet lags than hangovers. This calls for comfort food that can soothe and at the same time calm my withdrawals. When in the USA, I crave unobtainable black bread. In Denmark it is traditional American breakfast - you who visit here will know - which is blissfully obtainable DIY anytime. I'll switch the wheat toast for that black bread from my local baker that gets even tastier as a companion for some dishes when toasted for the best of two worlds. Oh, yes, I know it's an aquired taste. There will be wheat for those of you who choose to visit the Base Camp at Minnesota Crunchers if you prefer that - even white. And you don't have to eat your eggs sunny side up just because I do. I'll flip them for you. ![]() |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
How can I get that photo to Carlton?
It was on September 17. It was not planned. I had been there in 1984. Still, nostalgia pulled when passing on my way to Georgetown. And, oh! it was beautiful. I'm talking about the John F. Kennedy Center of the Performing Arts. Mr Moeller said: "If a Las Vegas developer were to open a casino under the theme of "Palace of the Soviets" - and unlikelier things happen hourly in Las Vegas - the result might look something like the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts .... the building is a gaudy concotion of vast marble planes, spindly bronze columns, overwrought chandeliers, and acres of bordello-red carpet." Hard to beat, eh? But I liked it. Unfortunately, a very unlikely thing happened in Las Vegas last Sunday .... so sad, so sad ![]() Back to Carlton. He told me it was possible to get to the roof terrace and on a clear day I would be able to see the Pentagon, which I was. Coming back down, Carlton and I had our photo taken, and I promised to e-mail it to him. Carlton was not the best of friends with paper and pencil, so my e-mail was returned. I tried all imaginable twisting and turning of what he wrote. No luck. In order to contact the Kennedy Center, you have to create an account. I hate writing from websites. More often than not, it's asking for problems instead of having them solved. On my first try, the website informed me that no such e-mail as mine existed. Upon arriving home it accepted my address, and I wrote a "Wanted" piece to Human Ressources - one of my choices from that website. Yesterday, by pure accident and to my surprise I discovered in my spam folder that my message had been returned with an explanation of some eight feet in length written in techolodigook. I think I could sift an ordinary looking e-mail address out of it: "Comments@kennedy-center.org" and shipped my message off again. We'll see what happens. Keeping promises is a fetich of mine ![]() ![]() ![]() And, by the way, Minnesota Crunchers, Base Camp and I want you ![]() ![]() |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Base Camp has no strategy, but a faint idea is fermenting.
----------------------------------------The trek to Minnesota shall continue until Minnesota cruncher Bearcat is up and well from the back surgery which is due soon, I'm told. After that I intend to make a trek to Base Camp HQ. Yes, Base Camp has it's own team, one that we Base Campers never really spent time with, because each and everyone had his own team from which he relocated to the "victim" of a planned trek when he wanted to participate in that particular trek, and to which he returned when the time he had set aside for that trek was up, the idea being donating points/results/run time to teams we thought would like a boost. Now we do not see many teams in this Forum, but time will tell what we can do. The captain of Base Camp HQ is Father Christmas - a dummy captain who could not be toppled by a hostile aquisition attempt. And yes, such things actually happened to some teams in the "good old days". The only Base Camp HQ "members" right now is Father Christmas and mousie [this I whisper: she celebrated her first wedding anniversary a month ago, and she let me see how beautiful she looked as a bride] My idea for the time being is that seasoned Base Campers who might be tempted to participate in Base Camp's rather foggy future activities and especially participate in deliberations and planning of treks could join Team Base Camp for at least one result, ensuring that they will be registered with the team and for me and anyone else to take note of their interest. This way we will be able to see which sort of "pool" we can assemble - if any. Any novice Base Camper is welcome to join for at least one result with equal rights to speak up and suggest activities. Whether you crunch with a Hannibal's Army - elephants and all - or with a one-WU-a-day as my own cute Mr Jones, you are welcome. And we shall do our best to answer any questions. We used to have badges. Beautiful badges. Badges like little stamps designed by ourselves. NAP2614 was our chief designer. You should have seen his badges. I cannot see how this can be practised right now. However, I can show you "Rosie" who was Base Camp's equivalent of The Most Noble Order of the Garter. The reward for expressing an interest (no obligation, no strings attached) in Base Camping by joining Base Camp HQ for one result, will be a virtual flu shot .... [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 4, 2017 7:23:13 PM] |
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Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Why make it complicated?
Interested future Base Campers ![]() - you may simply drop a word here, of course. ![]() ![]() |
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Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
It was on my first trip to the USA in 1984. In those days it was not common to travel from Denmark to the USA. I never imagined it would be granted to me, and as a schoolgirl it was such a distant idea that it never entered my head.
----------------------------------------It was a group tour - all bookings and trips taken care of, even most of the meals. We visited New York City, Washington DC, New Orleans, Tuscon, Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon, San Diego, south of the border to Tijuana with the zebra-painted donkeys, Los Angeles with Disneyland, San Francisco and the redwoods, went north of the border to Toronto and Niagara Falls and much much more. It was a splendid arrangement thought out by a Swedish travel agency. We always touched down in Atlanta, because it was the hub of the airline Northwest. RIP. From Buffalo we were due back to Denmark. However, we branched off and went to Chicago to visit with a penfriend of mine and when leaving Chicago for Providence, RI, to visit another penfriend, the flight was delayed. As a friendly gesture and to shorten the waiting time, the pilot invited his passengers to visit him in the cockpit and have a look at his tools and instruments. Nobody went. I guess people were shy. But all of a sudden mainly the male passengers made a beeline for that cockpit. The trigger was the pilot saying: "If nobody comes, I'll take it as a lack of interest." Well, I suppose I cannot make anything Base Camp happen by repeating the pilots remark. ![]() No dogs, no cats, not even a hamster. I can entertain myself ... I can pitch a tent and make a fire ![]() I can fish and pick berries and mushrooms ![]() you have to when you crunch with Minnesota Crunchers - they don't even offer you a bowl of oatmeal I can even milk a cow .... ![]() [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 6, 2017 6:02:38 PM] |
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Sgt.Joe
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they don't even offer you a bowl of oatmeal But we do off some really good beers. ![]() And some polite conversation from time to time. Cheers
Sgt. Joe
*Minnesota Crunchers* |
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Sure, you do, Capt. Joe
![]() - I think I got carried away on a selfpityish wave .... But it was me who went to the market to get those Sam Adams Winter Lager, right? And where are the glasses? I can wash dishes, too ![]() [you are probably experienced enough to know women have a tendency to insist on getting the last word; that's when the men go out and chop wood regardless of the weather] |
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So, Capt. Joe, did you chop this winter's supply of firewood?
![]() Fall is my favoritest season (the other three are just favorites). Fall means coming home from your errands, your walk, fingers cold, face and hair wet from what we call "ruskregn" - this wind driven rain that seems to be wetter and colder than other types of rain. You change into something dry, warm, and soft, make a large cup of cocoa, you light a couple of candles, take out one of the books from the stack on your table, turn on the reading lamp because all day long the light is a grayish one like perpetual dusk, let yourself slip down into your recliner, put your feet up and enter another world. Preferably an audible wind should sweep around the corners of the house and whistle softly. ![]() That's what make fall the favoritest in my part of the world. We call the way we handle this weatherwise unfriendly season: Hygge To our surprise this word is the third Danish one to be adopted internationally. As far as I know, it should have entered the English dictionary (unfortunatly it has one letter too much for us to try out in our change-one-letter-game), and I think it is also a German word now. The other two: Køkkenmødding (the heap of oyster shells made by stone age people around the world) - that's what it looks like when you use foreign letters - it has to be written koekkenmoedding for this thing to accept it Ombudsmand (an official taking care that people are treated fairly and not crushed by unfair use of laws and regulations - one to whom you can address your complaints, and who also takes up unfair decisions by those in power on his own initiative) Aspiring Base Campers may hope to get to see a køkkenmødding ![]() |
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