AliceTheOwl Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word I used to collect postcards, I stopped about 15 years ago. I collected them from places I had been to, and I particulary liked the "story cards", postcards that had a picture and a good longish description of the photo/place. I got the postcards from my recent holidays more as a momento, a cheap way of getting a good (professional) image. It also helps in remembering what the name of places are. Who can remember the difference between Santa Maria del Fiore (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Maria_del_Fiore) and Basilica di Santa Croce (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilica_di_Santa_Croce%2C_Florence), both in Florence after 5 weeks, when you had only one day sightseeing in the city. Postcards with their names on them goes a long way to help jog the memory. They are also easier to pack then acquiring the weighty souvenir books that are produced as alot of the information can now be found on the Internet. (I did buy the souvenir books but I looked for the less weighty and smaller ones where possible. On a side note: I think the coffee table type books would be a god-send as far a a good solid collection. Each book has the advantage of specializing in a particular subject area: eg you could have a book on Rome; one on the Colosseum, another on the Roman Forum; and if you extrapolate this into a collection you can see what I mean. Ah, yeah, I can see the wisdom of that. Now I wish I'd gotten myself postcards when I went to Russia. I look at the pictures I have now, and I wonder what I'm missing, and wonder exactly what I took a picture of, and why. Luckily their cathedrals are very distinct. I'd know St. Basil's from any angle, and would never confuse it for the one I saw in St. Petersburg. I just wish I knew more about the European-looking castle I saw in . . . Belarus? Latvia? Lithuania, maybe? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. Someday I'll get back to Europe. Not soon, though. Our first big trip as a family in a long time will be to Florida in December. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word There are so many places Josh and I want to go, but that we don't have enough money to vist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word For whatever reason, I think because I moved so much when I was young, travel isn't all that high on my list. Part of it is that post-2001 I find air travel almost intolerable, but that's only part of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 7, 2007 Report Share Posted August 7, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yeah, I pretty much stayed put all through my childhood. I've had to move so often since that I suspect I've made up for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Depends on how far you've moved. Just across town (or across state) doesn't really make it in terms of travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word I disagree. ANY move feels like one too many! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Heh. Wasn't talking about moves not being moves; I meant moves not being travel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word You're right. Travel is less stressful. But our moves have taken us from Maine to Massachusetts, then from Massachusetts to North Carolina. I think that's enough to qualify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word * bites tongue and changes the subject * Going to the Ren Faire this weekend. Third year running. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, I wasn't competing with YOU! I've only been to one Ren Faire. A woman on the way in declared, "Welcome to the boobie festival!" Indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word "Boobie festival?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Do your local Ren Faires not have many well-endowed ladies in corsets and low-cut blouses? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Oh, they have them, but the display isn't any more flagrant than on campus late in the first warm, sunny week in spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Hmm. Your college is much different than the one I attended. Then again, we're talking about Maine. "Warm" and "spring" don't necessarily go together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Well, here that happens in middle of May, at earliest. We're on the quarter system, so there's about 3 weeks left to the school year at that point. If it was a typical semester system schedule, then it wouldn't happen in most years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word I think most of the students I went to college with were out of clean clothes by May. That and the school year was almost over, anyway, so why bother trying to get anyone's notice? If they hadn't noticed last September, who cared? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 Re: The Last Word Snicker. Classes start the last Wednesday of September. Given that some people don't show up for a few days after that, and then the rains here typically start the middle of October, that leaves only a rather narrow time window for stuff-strutting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word It's not much wider in Maine. Trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word Then I have no explanation for the locale difference. Ordinarily I wouldn't really care, but given I have a 10-year-old daughter, this is soon to matter much more than before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word Flannel and sweaters take up a lot of room in a wardrobe, y'know! We only had so much space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word It gets cold there, I mean, genuine cold. Here it gets yucky, but the amount of actual sub-freezing temperatures are limited, so the not so much cold gear is needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word Yeah, living in Maine was when I discovered that there were parts of the world where winter meant you didn't see lawn for five or six months, because it was buried under snow and ice. And by March, that snow and ice is NOT pretty anymore. One guy at my school disappeared during New Year's. They found him in April; he'd drunkenly fallen into a snowbank and frozen to death. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word That only happens here up in the mountains. And even then, in late summer and fall. That's when you get the largest number of folks hiking the glaciers and falling in crevasses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AliceTheOwl Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Re: The Last Word Even the coastlines see those volumes of snow. Josh grew up on the coast, and he can vouch for it. He actually misses snow quite a bit. For that matter, so do I. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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