[pct-l] Voting and Hiking

[Sly]

I was sitting in a hotel room in Afghanistan when Nixon go voted in, and 
thought, with particular pride, how good is was to be raised in 
Massachusetts.   Of course, an argument can be made that Nixon was 
partly responsible for Afghanistan's downfall, when a coup disposed of 
the pro-Western King, a year later. 

http://letters.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/01/03/pakistan_policy/view/index3.html?show=all

Anyway, the next 4-8 years should be interesting, but no thanks to the 
pessimists.

Sly

Carl Siechert wrote:
> As was I. We were on the Tahoe-Yosemite Trail and arrived at Kennedy Meadows
> (north) on August 10. Everyone at the resort had a copy of the San Francisco
> Chronicle with the banner headline: NIXON RESIGNS. It was a real shock to
> us; even though Watergate had consumed the country for months, when we left
> Tuolumne Meadows several days earlier, we certainly didn't expect this
> sudden denouement.
>
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:08 PM, AsABat <AsABat at 4jeffrey.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> Yes, hiking has a way of putting the world aside. I was hiking across
>> the Sierra the week Nixon resigned. I had forgotten all about Watergate
>> during that time, concerned only with enjoying God's creation on my
>> hike.
>>
>>
>>     
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