Something Philip Torrens said reminded me of an experience my daughter and I had coming off a two week trip on the Alsek and Tatshenshini Rivers a few summers back. After getting back to Juneau for an overnight layover prior to heading home, we were walking down a sidewalk in that wonderful megalopolis --- it may have actually been paved, and there were no large pieces of falling ice in the immediate area, as I recall --- and we noticed, at about the same time, the smell of cologne and perfume and aftershave lotion on the tourist just disgorged by a large tour ship. We had cleaned up quite a bit --- my eighteen year old daughter used up three hotel soap bars and almost a full bottle of shampoo --- so we were probably okay (although we had found earlier that an early check-in is more readily obtained if you decide to sit on the floor of the tiny lobby of the hotel and wait, rather than taking the walkabout that had been suggested by the staff). But the smell of non-river folk can be quite overwhelming! Jack Martin *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 19:24:50 PDT
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