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RE: Spitfires in Alaska

To: spitfires@autox.team.net,
Subject: RE: Spitfires in Alaska
From: "Banbury, Terrence" <Terrence.Banbury@dnr.state.oh.us>
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 17:06:51 -0400
Sounds like the kind anti-wuss that Laura G. needs to meet!  Top down in a
blizzard, looking for the Aurora Borealis.  How romantic...;-)
Terry Banbury

> ----------
> From:         Fred Griffiths[SMTP:griffco@mail.cadvision.com]
> Reply To:     Fred Griffiths
> Sent:         Monday, May 15, 2000 4:22 PM
> To:   spitfires@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Spitfires in Alaska
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> just got back from a cruise Vancouver, BC to Juneau AK and a few other
> ports.  Great weather for the one day we were in Juneau, in fact
> Spitfire driving weather!
> 
> Which brings me to the point - who would own a Spitfire in Juneau Alaska
> where they tell me it rains 200 inches a year?  Rain on 200 days a year,
> and cold the rest!  And the only way to get a vehicle in or out of the
> city is by ocean going barge for a 3 day trip from Seattle, WA.  Maybe
> in a container, not the way we saw pickup trucks lashed onto the top of
> containers stacked 4 high on an open barge.
> 
> But I did see a very nice Spitfire tooling along, top down.  Wish I
> could have met the guy and chatted with him.
> 
> We did see Miattas, Corvettes, etc, but a Spitfire - Boy, that must turn
> heads in Juneau.
> 
> Cheers, Fred
> --
> Fred & Wendy Griffiths,
> Calgary, Canada
> http://www.cadvision.com/griffco/index.htm
> mailto: griffco@cadvision.com
> 
> 

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