[pct-l] RE:Kansas City tourism...a Californian's perspective!

[msaenz at mve-architects.com (Mike Saenz)]

Ohhhhhhh......I just can't resist!!!!!

Born, raised and STILL a Californian...
I pity the poor souls who have to dream about mountains miraculously
springing up in their back yards...
Or oceans, or deserts, or wide fertile valleys, or islands, great
rivers...San Francisco Bay....giant
sequoias...Yosemite...Whitney...Death Valley... Oilcans!...The PCT!!!

We get to see them all within a few hours drive of each other!!!!!

Damn if that didn't smack of flagrant elitisms....

Unabashedly proud to be a Californian, where from my office desk (after
I drive through the Cleveland National Forest and Santa Ana Mountains on
my morning commute), I can see the Pacific Ocean, Santa Catalina Island,
the skyline of LA, the coastal hills of Newport Coast and Laguna, The
snow on The San Gabriel's, and, for now, actual water flowing in the
Santa Ana River!

I just COULDN'T resist!

;)

M i c h a e l   S a e n z
McLarand Vasquez Emsiek & Partners, Inc.
A r c h i t e c t u r e    P l a n n i n g    I n t e r i o r s
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-----Original Message-----
From: pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net
[mailto:pct-l-bounces@mailman.backcountry.net] On Behalf Of Ron Smith
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:02 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [BULK] - RE: Re: [pct-l] Kansas City tourism

If you can't find anything but fountains and roses in Kansas, you're
looking in the wrong place. Ask Dorothy. As a kid growing up on the flat
Texas plains I frequently dreamed that mountains had miraculously sprung
up in my back yard. This is one of the reasons I always see magic, in
addition to geology and sweat, in the hills, crests, and mountains I
visit. I pity the poor souls who had to grow up in a mountain state!
-Ron
> 
> although, to be completely accurate, the only REAL Kansas Citians :)
hail from the Missouri side......at least that's what I've always been
told, having had the good luck to be born there! There are fountains and
roses! Don't forget Loose Park and the famous Rose Garden. (OK -- it's
been a while since I've visited, and that's all I remember....but it was
great!)

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