As another soon to be Olde Phahrtte who just had a birthday I couldn't
agree more. And to celebrate I'm getting my first tattoo next week, a
whopping great bugger that'll take 4 hours, she says.

The real walls in our lives aren't the ones of distance, or our bank
accounts but the ones in our own minds.

Nathaniel

On 3/8/07, Rob <becida@comcast.net> wrote:
> As someone who just had another birthday , I'm tending to agree with
> your post and think the Mark Twain quote is just great!
> I'm not sure where you are unca joel but it's only 5300 miles from
> Key West to Fairbanks.
>
> Rob
> becida@comcast.net
>
> At  3/8/2007 05:51 PM,joel walker wrote:
> >----- Original Message -----
> >>Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things
> >>that you
> >>didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines.
> >>Sail away
> >>from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore.
> >>Dream.
> >>Discover. Mark Twain
> >
> >it's not exactly Frydaye material cause it can be easily related to
> >trips in Vanagons
> >(among other life choices) ...
> >
> >and as one Olde Phahrtte who is on the downward slide of his lengthy
> >trek on this planet and already is having regrets about things i
> >didn't do and places i didn't go and buses i didn't buy (or buses i
> >sold), and because the weather is beginning to turn warmer and will
> >continue to do so for several months to come,  i urge you
> >Jung-Whippersnappers to do as Mark Twain suggests:
> >GO! SEE! DO! and do it in your bus. get it fixed. NOW! and go.
> >
> >i've been planning a trip to Alaska, just for the journey, for like
> >ten years now.
> >haven't even made it into Tennessee. :( always came up with reasons
> >not to go.
> >now it's Key West and Margaritaville cheeseburgers and Papa
> >Hemingway's house.
> >probably won't make that one either.
> >
> >it's good to have a plan, but better to go.
> >
> >just my opinion, based on the flood tide, phase of the moon, and
> >length of the back hairs on shaggy dogs. :)
> >
> >unca joel
>