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Feb. 20th, 2005 02:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynI like you. A lot. You're lots of fun and you're much better than Cats.
So why are you looking at listings for trips to Alaska that put 'self-guided drive', 'Bering land bridge', and 'among the most isolated in North America' all in one sentence and going 'ooooh, fun!'? I thought you were smarter than that...
So why are you looking at listings for trips to Alaska that put 'self-guided drive', 'Bering land bridge', and 'among the most isolated in North America' all in one sentence and going 'ooooh, fun!'? I thought you were smarter than that...
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Date: 2005-02-20 10:19 pm (UTC)I know I'd love to go back to Alaska someday, but I've got a few other places I need to save up to visit first. China, at the very least. Possibly Australia- I'd like to see the stars of the Southern Hemisphere more than anything else, and as long as I'm doing that I might as well see some of the wildlife and some of the cities. Then Alaska again, after China if not after Australia.
Will definitely keep an eye on anything that looks really splendid about AK, though. I've already done the Fairbanks area and at least visited Denali National Park even if I haven't gone very far into it; there's so much else to see in the state that I'm free to pick and choose...
*pulls out Gold Hill Road, Fairbanks icon for this one*
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Date: 2005-02-23 08:27 pm (UTC)Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 10:00 pm (UTC)But alas, not 2005, I couldn't get the time off. According to Bill at Calgary, the only flights are out of Edmonton and cost, last checked, about C$900 or so. [/wince] So there's also a saving-up factor.
Driving is a possibility, but considering how much empty there is to that road, I wouldn't want to take the chance.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 10:11 pm (UTC)*rubs hands together* My family will think I'm insane, of course. But the thing about being me is that I really don't particularly care.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 10:50 pm (UTC)long (http://www.jockey.com/en-US/Catalog/Silhouette.htm?CategoryName=Women&DepartmentName=Long%20Underwear&SilhouetteName=LongUnderwearTops)
underwear (http://www.jockey.com/en-US/Catalog/Silhouette.htm?CategoryName=Women&DepartmentName=Long%20Underwear&SilhouetteName=LongUnderwearBottoms)!
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 11:37 pm (UTC)The other voices in my head went dead silent.
"I knitted it myself."
At about that point the three remaining reasonable neurons started laying about them with big clubs wid nails in, but the damage had been done. I am now stuck with this horrible, horrible mental image of producing my own long underwear.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 11:40 pm (UTC)But... knitting it yourself? o_O I always felt Aunt Harriot's hand-knitted sweaters were gorgeous but let drafts through awfully.
(And then there's trying to pin the stuff to fit... by yourself.)
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-23 11:51 pm (UTC)... please get Benton Fraser's voice out of my head. I AM TALKING ABOUT KNITTING HERE THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
Okay. Anyway. The thing about knitting is, if I was going to do long underwear, I would set about doing it seriously. There's a technique called double knitting where you do two layers at once; it's terrifically warm since it not only produces an insulative layer but prevents gaps from being a problem. Not to mention that if I used anything with a partial wool component, I'd be throwing it in the washing machine and dryer, and it would fuzz up and full out a bit in the process, making the gaps much much smaller even if they existed.
I could, of course, felt the things. I've made felted slippers before. But felted underwear would be a bit much even for me.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 12:12 am (UTC)[points at icon] No way. Had to Google for it.
Not that I would actually use it, as it's too expensive...
I just noticed!! I said to myself, 'She's never gonna be able to afford enough yarn AND the plane ticket!'
There's a technique called double knitting where you do two layers at once...
Ah, see, I've never had any reason to know about that. I did, however, find a way to cool off almost to the point of shivering in mid-afternoon in South Florida which doesn't involve air conditioning....
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 01:07 am (UTC)Ah. I learned about the fiber a few years ago, and bought a skein of it when I visited Alaska. That was the hardest-won yarn I've ever had the pleasure of working with, and some of the loveliest. I'm currently working on a liner for a hat using yarn that's 75 percent qiviut, 25 percent merino- bought it off eBay a while ago. Since I also have a skein of yak yarn, I will probably be using that on the outside of the hat- why use normal fibers when you've got stuff like that on hand...
I said to myself, 'She's never gonna be able to afford enough yarn AND the plane ticket!'
True. If I ever did spend that much on qiviut, it would be because I was moving to the Arctic and planned on using the resultant product to STAY ALIVE. Besides, the patterns I'm most interested in for underwear, while not for long johns, use a very nice silk / wool blend that's significantly cheaper. They'd be found here.
Ah, see, I've never had any reason to know about that. I did, however, find a way to cool off almost to the point of shivering in mid-afternoon in South Florida which doesn't involve air conditioning....
Right, whereas I, being a psychotic in full rejection of her warm-blooded southern Italian heritage, have devoted most of my attention to ways of keeping myself insulated and warm, ever since my third grade classmates got me hooked on Antarctic exploration by giving me a copy of The South Pole Ponies by Theodore K. Mason as a reward for participating in the PS 221 Storytelling Contest.
Now, about this cool-off method. Do tell.
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Date: 2005-02-24 12:20 am (UTC)Re: Evil thought:
Date: 2005-02-24 01:09 am (UTC)I came within angstroms of buying a part-husky-fur, part-sheep-wool headband/earwarmer from the Denali Mercantile Exchange before coming home from Alaska. If I could get enough dog-fur yarn to knit something worthwhile, I'd do it in a heartbeat. I am that sad about knitting with unusual fibers.
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Date: 2005-02-24 03:37 am (UTC)You a member of
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Date: 2005-02-24 05:17 am (UTC)Not on
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Date: 2005-02-24 05:45 am (UTC)You might like
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Date: 2005-02-24 05:54 am (UTC)I'll have to give the community a look at some point, then.
Re: Evil thought:
Date: 2005-02-24 05:59 am (UTC)(Wonder how poodle does for yarn.)
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 01:26 am (UTC)Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 03:45 am (UTC)I got to go up to Vancouver, finally, a couple of Marches ago; I was absolutely tripping on recognising so many places, sometimes even by accident. I've got a substantial portion of the peninsula mapped already, and I was only there... erm, 36 hours?
Not real DueSouthy, but my most substantial Canadian experience so far.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 05:29 am (UTC)The only foreign country I've ever been to has been Canada. Toronto and environs several times, Vancouver Island once (the city, no, since all I did was pass through it), Ottawa once, also Montreal and Quebec City. Lovely place.
Oh, and Niagara Falls, where there was a shop that gave me the opportunity to come up with one thing I'm dead certain no one else on my friends list has done:
#12: I have worn a Mountie uniform jacket. Not one from a costume store, either. The real thing, just retired.
Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 05:39 am (UTC)You've done somewhat better than me; a friend took me through Windsor and partway around the lake and such. Veddy veddy flat, glacier-ironed.
Need to go to Halifax. :nodnodnod:
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Date: 2005-02-24 06:02 am (UTC)Re: Too much <i>Due South</i> exposure, m'self.
Date: 2005-02-24 06:15 am (UTC)Here, I summed up that which needs summing, here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/sff_corgi/248357.html?mode=reply). :)