Re: [Paddlewise] Roger, Wilco. . .

Gee, George --

I know a lot of our high school students can't identify our states on
the map by
their outlines, the names have to be there for them to know Kansas from
Illinois,
for instance.  But I had no idea we were confused about national
boundries.
So...(pulling down a wall map and rapping on the board with a long
pointy
pointer)...Baja California is part of Mexico.  It is a state of Mexico,
and
geographically a peninsula, joined with the major part of Mexico at the
top, and
separated from "mainland" Mexico's western coast by the Sea of Cortez.

As for the radio lingo...I've had great fun, too.  At a small airport in
low
desert Southern California where there was a lot of sailplane and sport
jumping
activity, we generally discouraged pilots who were unfamiliar with the
area to
attempt landing and sightseeing.  When asked for permission to land,
however, we
couldn't refuse them, so after giving the active runway and wind
conditions, we
informed them they were "queer to land".

True, Southern California around L.A. is full of traffic, smog, road
rage, phony
people, and just about everything else that is a contributing factor to
the
decline of culture and general civility in our great nation.  The same
is true of
many other cosmopolitan areas across the country. Unlike them, however,
within an
hour's drive of Los Angeles there are spectacular sections of scenery
and
seclusion.  Very few other cities have the variety of envirnoments
available so
close at hand.  Right now, for instance, I could go to a beach and enjoy
a clear
warm paddling day, or go into the mountains and ski or snowboard, or go
to the
desert and check out the early wildflowers.

I will not, however, be living here forever.  The fact remains, you do
have to
make an effort to escape the everyday badness.  I wonder if mud and
rednecks are
worse than earthquakes and cellphones?
                          >///:>Chris Hardenbrook<:\\\<
                            Sunny Southern California


Geo. Bergeron wrote:

> At 12:02 PM 3/8/98 -0800, you wrote:

>        Yeah but I'm serious. Is the Baja Penisula part of Mexico or part of
> Californa? I'm not talking social convention here. I'm talking political
> boundaries.
>
>         And we used "Roger Dodger" a lot on the Army radios. . . along with
> "that's a furniture" and "negatron" . . . pissed off the generals really bad.
>
>         What I remember about Southern California is freeways and parking
> lots. . . smog. Of course what I think of when I think about Oregon is mud,
> rain, rednecks.
>
>         Over and out. . . Geo.
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