[Rockhounds] Home are the rockhounds...

[Glenn Wimpee]

Welcome home!

 

Heal quick from the fall.

 

A good way to pass a bit of time while healing is to post some trip reports!

 

I can hardly wait to read your stories, and hopefully you have pictures from the trip (not the fall) also!



Glenn 







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> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:46:58 -1000
> From: kahako at hawaiiantel.net
> To: rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com
> Subject: [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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