[Rockhounds] Home are the rockhounds...

[Axel Emmermann]

Hi guys,

It's good to hear from you again.  What a homecoming!
I hope you completely recover soon, Kitty.  Look upon the event from the
bright side: it's better to have this kind of accidents on your first day
back home than on the first day of your journey.

Get well soon!

Axel


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> Namens Kitty & Bill Heacox
> Verzonden: vrijdag 24 juli 2009 4:47
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> Onderwerp: [Rockhounds] Home are the rockhounds...
> 
> Hi List,
> Bill and I are back from a 5 month sojourn while he's been on sabbatical
> leave from University of Hawaii at Hilo. We left on March 1^st for
> Tasmania, then wandered through a good part of the rest of Australia and
> a brief re-visit to New Zealand, and had only a 10-day stop at home in
> Hilo before heading for the Pacific Northwest on May 5^th . After
> visiting friends & relatives in Washington & Oregon we took off on June
> 1^st for British Columbia, Yukon Territory, and Alaska, and took the
> ferry on July 10th down the Inland Passage to Bellingham. After a few
> more friend/family visits, we got home to Hilo day-before-yesterday,
> July 21.
> 
> Along the way we visited List Members: Steve Sorrell (near Hobart,
> Tasmania), John & Julie Siebel (Santa, Idaho), Hilmar Kroke (Vancouver,
> BC), and John Cornish (Pt. Angeles, WA). We shipped back many very heavy
> boxes (your guess as to the reason for their weight ;-) ), and did
> everything from attending an opera (Carmen) to celebrating 4^th of July
> in a town of less than 300 people in Gustavus near Glacier Bay, Alaska;
> from picking pebbles on Obstruction Island which my family used to own,
> to noodling (no, not catching catfish with your bare hands) in Coober
> Pedy and Andemooka.
> 
> The night we got home I got up in the night and tripped over a box our
> house-sitters had left in our bedroom and fell forward, banging both
> knees and one hand on the floor and my face on a chair---right on the
> bridge of my nose between my eyes. So I have some very sore muscles and
> joints, and two black eyes.
> 
> But other than that the trip was great! I'll send some reports of
> rockhound interest in a few days, after I've gone through the roughly
> 2000 email messages that accumulated in our absence.
> 
> Aloha, Kitty
> 
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