[at-l] Boun Giorno da Roma

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Ya want mountains, go to Northern It'ly...Aosta is a cool li'l town, and they've got Roman ruins there, too. All they've got in Rome is seven HILLS, but at least all roads lead there, huh?
-"Camo"

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> Excuse th cross posting..but going to make this a 
> quick e-mail... 
> 
> So here I am in the Eternal City dodging scooters, 
> drinking espresso, dodging more scooters, getting 
> spoken to in Italian (including some German tourists 
> asking me "Parli Inglese?"), speaking bad Italian back 
> and showing that I am an American, (the real Italians 
> a little chagrined that they mistook an Americano for 
> an Italian), dodging yet more scooters, drinking more 
> espresso (caffe), not seeing Russell Crowe but seeing 
> Roman ruins and some people more obviously American 
> than I (that is another story), and dodging yet more 
> scooters (Traffic lights are a suggestion only in 
> Rome). 
> 
> Tomorrow I go to the mountains of Abruzzo and 
> hopefully see some distant family relations. Rome is 
> vibrant..but even in a foriegn country it is the 
> moutains I want...heck my family came from the 
> mountains. Must be genetic. :) 
> 
> ciao for now.... 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> http://mailman.backcountry.net/mailman/listinfo/at-l From sloetoe at yahoo.com  Thu Sep 15 09:11:13 2005
From: sloetoe at yahoo.com (Sloetoe)
Date: Thu Sep 15 10:13:06 2005
Subject: [at-l] There's something therapeutic about...
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### There's also the fact that packing for a hike involves hard
(thus challenging) estimations of weather, effort, terrain, even
*mindset*, that demand different mixes of equipment-matching and
living-systems assembly. Packing for a trip in "civilization"
mostly involves bland anticipation of stuffing of stuff we
already use into equipment that is truly a burden to handle,
versus the turtle's self-contained home on our back.

Don't think I said that well at alllllll.
dulltoe

--- Robert <infinity1plus1@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Packing for a hike is a puzzle. I personally think it
> is great fun. You have hiking memories attached to (or
> about to be attached to) everything you put in your
> pack. Packing for any other kind of trip usually
> involves packing lots of clothing that you have no
> emotionaly attachment to. I think this is why the
> hike-pack and the trip-pack are so different.
> 
> Robert
> 
> --- Shelly Hale <shellydhale@earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
> > ..packing to go on a hike.  Now, don't get me
> > wrong-I hate packing of any kind, except it seems
> > for when I am going hiking.  Does
> > anyone else suffer from this affliction?  

Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
   Pro Pondera Et Meliora.