Doug wrote and i snipped big time: >I had a hard time keeping up with her at the end. doug, well written great experience. last week, i also had a nice time with Natalie. relative to my age, she is a -20 yr. Natalie Braun is from Hamburg, Germany (grad student with Prof. Alpers). we didn't have time for a paddle, so we went biking in a restricted (as no bikes) area of Assateatgue National Park in Virginia. she lives in cities so has no drivers license... bikes everywhere. yes, she talked all the time. i huff and puffed and kept up my manliness by nodding and grunting. after awhile, i saw an owl in the woods and we hiked in. came out to meet mr ranger, who thru our butts out of the park - but didn't give us a ticket. as we approached the 20 mile Chesapeake bay bridge tunnel to norfork (dinner on the bridge), she says that something seemed to be biting. i respond that i thought it was sand beneath my wet socks (it started raining as we finished our ride). NO, after we parked at the bridge restaurant at sundown, i saw that it was Chiggers!!! hell i got 300 bites. Natalie went back to Germany with many new friends. we should have gone paddling. bye bye bliven *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Oct 06 2000 - 16:54:05 PDT
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