What are you congratulating them for? The 22.75 mpg or the new house? Equally impressive........... but he was going 50.......... On Oct 30, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Neil McGlothin wrote: > Cool! Well, congratulations to you two! > > Neil > --- Bob Perring <perring@xxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Will try to post a bit of the exciting stuff later >> this weekend, such as >> about the really big black bear we saw in one of our >> Arkansas National >> Forest campsites, and the great 22.75 mpg I got for >> the total trip, but >> just to move right along, let me announce one >> thing.....,,,,, tah dah (drum >> roll) >> >> Denis, ............... Our visit to you in Eureka >> Springs definitely had an >> impact on Mary Beth and me. >> We bought a new house with 5 acres of beautiful land >> and a 3.5 acre lake in >> deep Southern Illinois near SIU in Carbondale. >> We are in the heart of the Shawnee National Forest >> with such wonderful >> camping all around us so as to be almost >> unbelievable until you get there >> to actually see it. >> BTW, very nice hippy community only 7-8 miles away. >> >> Did we plan on buying the house when we left - No. >> Are we excited about another unexpected input into >> our life - Yes >> >> House has a 2 car garage and a finished pole barn >> that can house another 3 >> automobiles. >> Mary Beth can have the house - I'll take the pole >> barn and an aluminum john >> boat on the lake. >> >> More info later !!! >> >> Bob >> >> >> >> > > > ===== > "The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the > mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always > be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer-- they > think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek > mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow > and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for > an answer." > > -- Ken Kesey > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > > Dan & Katrina Martin 1971 VW Bus H.B.B. T.C.B.