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Date:         Thu, 03 Apr 1997 22:00:49 -0800
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From:         Barbara Sutton <bsutton@gladstone.uoregon.edu>
Subject:      Re: F.Y.I.  RE> Camping - follow up

> If this is the Saratoga Springs on Highway 9 just "north" of the town of > Saratoga that I am thinking of, I would clarify the : ">About 30' from > Kelley Park. " > where "30' " is somewhere in the neighborhood of 10-15 miles, and depending > upon traffice 30-45 minutes driving time. > > My interpretation of " 30' " was thirty feet, which is definitely > incorrect! > > Harvey Oops. Please forgive the fact that I come from a metric system part of the world, where we use the symbol ' for minutes and the symbol " for seconds. I wonder if this was really confusing to a lot of people. In any case, what I meant was 30 m. (not meters, minutes!) ;) Of course, as VW enthusiasts, we have all experienced how much more sense the decimal system makes... Cris. '91 Westie '66 Kombi '67 Deluxe PS: I would really hate to have started a thread on metric vs non metric systems.


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