[at-l] Re: at-l Drink Mix Vs. TeethT

[tkirchofer at yahoo.com (Tom Kirchofer)]

speaking of 9/11, it used to be really interesting to read what hikers wrote in shelter registers that day. And I read lots of them by people who hadn't heard the news. Up in Maine, it was the 13th or 14th before some people heard. but in general, it was amazing how news traveled on the trail!
 
mariachi

Frank Looper <mapster@charter.net> wrote:
I'm a bit of a news-junkie. Fox News stays on most of the day in the
background. That started on 9-11, and never really stopped.

One more good thing about a thru-hike is that I can break that cycle!

:-)
Frank

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Bullard" 
To: 
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 10:18 AM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Re: at-l Drink Mix Vs. TeethT


> At 09:41 AM 2/6/2004 -0500, gypsy97@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >To respond to the post regarding keeping up with the news while hiking,
I
> >found this to be one of the best things about it - not knowing what was
> >happening and really not caring.
>
> A fan of soap operas once told me that she liked them because she didn't
> have to watch every day to keep up with the story line. She could even
be
> away for six months and still pick up the story line because they were
so
> repetitive and so little actually happened. The "NEWS" is a lot like
that.
> Aside from catastrophic events, most of what we are fed every day as
news
> is a case of SOS,DD. If anything really important happens you'll hear
about
> it fairly quickly. The rest is just noise.

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