[gps-talkusers] Have fun in Chile

["Richard Myers" <dkmyers28@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello, Mike,
About llamas, there is a guy in northern Oregon who raises them.  Llamas are 
not as smart as horses and probably would not make good guide animals when 
you consider their size and the amount of fertilizer they leave behind for 
your pooper-scooper.  Also, I have noticed that many blind people park their 
guide dogs under the table when they go in a restaurant to eat.  That would 
not work with a guide llama.  Another thing to consider is the llama hair is 
very valuable, being used to make sweaters for ladies and blankets and 
things.  Imagine you tying your llama to a post while you were going into 
the vegetable market and coming back out to find someone had sheared all the 
hair off and the poor critter was standing there shivering!

They raise llamas in Peru, also.  During the summer months the hearders take 
them up to the high pastures to graze.  In about 1900, the Peruvian 
government asked the US government for help.  It seems that the towns that 
had llamas were having some medical problems above and beyond the usual 
percentage for that country.  The US sent the US Navy down there with a 
bunch of doctors and soon discovered that those pesky llamas were at the 
center of the problem.

Well, that doesn't have much to do with GPS.  I doubt if a llama would be 
able to find his way back home with one.  Justy an interesting little piece 
of history.

Dick Myers

From: Michael May <mikemay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [gps-talkusers] throw back to GPS version 1
Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2005 19:33:33 -0400

When one takes advantage of frequent flyer miles for a family vacation, you 
take the routing available to you. In our case Santiago Chile is 5970 miles 
Southeast from Sacramento California. We had to fly from Sacramento to 
Chicago, then to Toronto and from there to Santiago. It is pretty much 
directly South from Toronto to Santiago, a 10 hour flight. I used the 
BrailleNote GPS to calculate the total air miles for our trip, 7579 miles. 
Definitely the long way to Chile, 19 hours from Sacramento to Santiago plus 
delays.

As we explore Santiago, I am addict POIs as we go, no street maps here. It 
is still very useful. For example, we are deciding whether to take the metro 
or taxi back to the hotel. I could check the distance of both from our 
current position. We decided to take a taxi and I could recommend which 
street to get on in order to be headed in the direction toward our hotel. At 
the very least, it is good to know which cardinal direction one is headed 
in.

It of course is winter down here but beautiful weather at the moment. We are 
headed for skiing tomorrow for a week and then some horseback riding a bit 
south of here at supposedly the oldest hacienda in the western hemisphere.

Oh, yah. I checked out a llama today. Not sure how they would work out for 
guiding. Heck, they are trying guide horses, why not a llama?

Mike



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