[at-l] Summer Hiking in Florida

[charles at uswnet.com (Charles Copeland)]

Shane has a point.  Acclimation is the key.  However, it *is* hard to get
away from A/C!

I didn't have an air conditioner until I was in college.  My parents home
nor my Pinto had A/C.  I also used to run 4 miles a day - every day - at 6PM
during the summer.  That was so I wouldn't die when football practice
started in August.  The coaches believed that old saying "What doesn't kill
you only makes you stronger!"  :-)

I wouldn't hike in Florida in the summer though unless I had a no-see-um
body suit!  Same for Louisiana!

...or would that be body *armor*???

Charles


----- Original Message -----
From: "Shane" <shane@theplacewithnoname.com>
To: "Lilla Thompson" <lthompson@hollins.edu>; <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 1:42 PM
Subject: RE: [at-l] Summer Hiking in Florida


> Not to pick a fight with Shane...

Who SHALL we pick a fight with, then?  ;)

> But it's very difficult for many (most?) of us to get
> away totally from air conditioning so's to get
> acclimated to the actual weather. I don't have ac at
> home, but I have to work in an air-conditioned
> building--ergo roast at home, freeze at work.  I
> have my little space heater going as I type this...

Agreed.  You could hang meat in my office...  My wife thinks I'm insane for
even suggesting that we turn the AC down, much less off...

> P.S. is "ergo" as good as "albeit"?

Indubitably.

Shane

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