[Rockhounds] Home are the rockhounds...

[Jim Daly]

Hi Kitty & Bill,
Our timing is off again to make contact with friends. Barb & I arrived in WA yesterday (Spokane), and will pass thru Santa, ID on Monday, after John & Julie have left!
Jim

--- On Thu, 7/23/09, Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net> wrote:

> From: Kitty & Bill Heacox <kahako at hawaiiantel.net>
> Subject: [Rockhounds] Home are the rockhounds...
> To: "Rockhounds at drizzle.com: A mailing list for rock and gem collectors" <rockhounds at lists.drizzle.com>
> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2009, 7:46 PM
> 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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