At 01:07 PM 9/12/96 -0500, you wrote: >notorious uphill stretches of southwest desert interstates, I found >it necessary to turn off the A/C, open all the windows, and turn the >heaters on full blast (whew!) just to keep the temp guage from going >critical, as the radiator fan's high speed wasn't enough. When I read stories of miners in the Southwest a hundred years ago, or of loggers (lumberjacks to you East-Coasters) in the Northwest, I try to imagine myself being in their position & know fer sure I'd never make it - those were *real* men...& women too of course .... I have to wonder if our grandchildren's generation will read the above and think "WOW those guys were really tough - just imagine going across deserts in metal boxes with heaters turned on to cool their flaming fuel combustion engines !" Austin
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