RE: Crocodile Hunter (OT)

September 5, 2006

I'll tell you a secret .

Steve lived about 100 klms from where I live. I knew about the Reptile

Park, but not about Steve. Steve's dad had been running the reptile park

for years - at least 30 years.

The first I knew about Steve was when a visitor, from a retirement and

seniors emailing list, came to stay with me for 4 days about 5 or 6 years

ago. The most important thing for him was to go to Steve's Aussie World

Reptile Park. He explained that Steve was most famous in Philadelphia.

We took him to the Park (cost us a fortune).

Afterwards I asked him what he enjoyed most on his visit to Brisbane. He

told me it was the Ferry trip down the river. Cost us less for 3 than it

did for one person to get into the reptile park.

So when you visit Brisbane go to the reptile park, but also spend a half day

on the river.

Aussie Margaret

RTHR 1990 revised 2004

Crocodile Hunter (OT)

| For you Aussie's I just wanted to let you know that I'm so sorry about

Steve

| Irwin. I am truly an animal lover and thought that he was great.

|

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September 5, 2006

In a message dated 9/5/2006 6:18:00 A.M. Central Standard Time, zztinau@... writes:

I'll tell you a secret .Steve lived about 100 klms from where I live. I knew about the Reptile Park, but not about Steve. Steve's dad had been running the reptile park for years - at least 30 years.The first I knew about Steve was when a visitor, from a retirement and seniors emailing list, came to stay with me for 4 days about 5 or 6 years ago. The most important thing for him was to go to Steve's Aussie World Reptile Park. He explained that Steve was most famous in Philadelphia.We took him to the Park (cost us a fortune).Afterwards I asked him what he enjoyed most on his visit to Brisbane. He told me it was the Ferry trip down the river. Cost us less for 3 than it did for one person to get into the reptile park.So when you visit Brisbane go to the reptile park, but also spend a half day on the river.Aussie MargaretRTHR 1990 revised 2004

Wow, over here he was really a big deal. I would love to come to Australia some day. We live in Indiana in the U.S. so it probably won't happen but I just love all of the wildlife.

September 5, 2006

In a message dated 9/5/2006 4:07:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, zztinau@... writes:

All things are possible, even a visit to australia.Australians are very generous people once you get to know them. If you visit them they will often give friends and family a couple of days free board and lodgings.Now you have me in Brisbane, you have Aussie in Sydney, and you have in Melbourne. And of course there is mark in wellington NZ if you need to stop part way.Of course you could go the other way - Jane in wales, we have someone in Israel, someone in India. All we need is someone in East Asia - hang on, don't we have someone in Japan? We could do our world tour. I want to go to south Africa though, anyone on the list from South Africa? And of course I am visiting Don in Canada. We might even go together to see google about that carers online support group.Never stop dreaming!Aussie MargaretRTHR 1990 revised 2004

Thanks, you made me smile. I would love to go to Australia. The best that I can do though is that I have an African Gray Parrot. I don't think she knows where she's from though, lol. The furthest I've been is out west in the U.S. At least maybe I could get my days and nights straightened out though. I love to stay up all night here. I would probably get used to it though. They do have transports for dogs that go just about everywhere. Maybe I could hitch a ride with one of those!

September 5, 2006

All things are possible, even a visit to australia.

Australians are very generous people once you get to know them. If you

visit them they will often give friends and family a couple of days free

board and lodgings.

Now you have me in Brisbane, you have Aussie in Sydney, and you have

in Melbourne. And of course there is mark in wellington NZ if you

need to stop part way.

Of course you could go the other way - Jane in wales, we have someone in

Israel, someone in India. All we need is someone in East Asia - hang on,

don't we have someone in Japan? We could do our world tour. I want to go

to south Africa though, anyone on the list from South Africa? And of course

I am visiting Don in Canada. We might even go together to see google about

that carers online support group.

Never stop dreaming!

Aussie Margaret

RTHR 1990 revised 2004

Re: Crocodile Hunter (OT)

|

| In a message dated 9/5/2006 6:18:00 A.M. Central Standard Time,

| zztinau@... writes:

|

| I'll tell you a secret .

|

| Steve lived about 100 klms from where I live. I knew about the Reptile

| Park, but not about Steve. Steve's dad had been running the reptile park

| for years - at least 30 years.

|

| The first I knew about Steve was when a visitor, from a retirement and

| seniors emailing list, came to stay with me for 4 days about 5 or 6 years

| ago. The most important thing for him was to go to Steve's Aussie World

| Reptile Park. He explained that Steve was most famous in Philadelphia.

|

| We took him to the Park (cost us a fortune).

|

| Afterwards I asked him what he enjoyed most on his visit to Brisbane. He

| told me it was the Ferry trip down the river. Cost us less for 3 than it

| did for one person to get into the reptile park.

|

| So when you visit Brisbane go to the reptile park, but also spend a half

day

| on the river.

|

| Aussie Margaret

| RTHR 1990 revised 2004

|

| Wow, over here he was really a big deal. I would love to come to

Australia

| some day. We live in Indiana in the U.S. so it probably won't happen but

I

| just love all of the wildlife.

|

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September 5, 2006

Aussie Margaret is right - Australians are an easy going sort of people ... at least until somebody rocks our boat! The death of Steve Irwin has been a strange experience for me --- I first found out from an "ALL STAFF" email which I received at about 2.00pm on Monday Sydney time. At first I thought it must have been a staff member from one of our building tenancies. I am not a TV watcher at all, so I must have been the only person in the world to whom the name meant absolutely nothing. * hangs his head in shame*

Though there is plainly a majority of North Americans on this site it is great to see the occasional member from some far flung place. Now that aussie is with us we can now at least cover the eastern seaboard of Australia and show a good time to any visitors from across the pond. In the last years of her life my little sister was in a chair so I had advance knowledge of the mobility impaired "friendliness" of Sydney sites which has stood me in good stead now that my hip is causing me some grief. Btw, don't let Aussie Margaret fool you ... the first time we met for dinner she had parked her vehicle in a car park about a squillion miles away from where we ate. She fared much better that I did in the walk back to the car!

Aussie

In a message dated 9/5/2006 4:07:17 P.M. Central Standard Time, zztinau .au writes:

All things are possible, even a visit to australia.Australians are very generous people once you get to know them. If you visit them they will often give friends and family a couple of days free board and lodgings.Now you have me in Brisbane, you have Aussie in Sydney, and you have in Melbourne. And of course there is mark in wellington NZ if you need to stop part way.Of course you could go the other way - Jane in wales, we have someone in Israel, someone in India. All we need is someone in East Asia - hang on, don't we have someone in Japan? We could do our world tour. I want to go to south Africa though, anyone on the list from South Africa? And of course I am visiting Don in Canada. We might even go together to see google about that carers online support group.Never stop dreaming!Aussie MargaretRTHR 1990 revised 2004

Thanks, you made me smile. I would love to go to Australia. The best that I can do though is that I have an African Gray Parrot. I don't think she knows where she's from though, lol. The furthest I've been is out west in the U.S. At least maybe I could get my days and nights straightened out though. I love to stay up all night here. I would probably get used to it though. They do have transports for dogs that go just about everywhere. Maybe I could hitch a ride with one of those!

September 5, 2006

Sorry ,

You get no sympathy from me. I did offer you a walking stick. You were too

proud to use it. Without a stick I would have been as bad as you.

For those wondering about travel after joint replacement what I say is go

for it. Since my first joint replacement I have been to Korea 3 times,

Indonesia once, and to Singapore 5 times (I really love Singapore and could

spend months there!).

The only time I had any trouble was once in Korea. I activated their alarm

system with my hip, and made the security really jumpy, especially when I

was looking for the documentation, that I had in my bag, to show I had an

artificial hip.

These days I mention to security, before I go through the screening process,

that I have an artificial hip. The documentation is useless anyway - and so

it should be. I would never reach into a bag after the alarm has gone off.

I just move over to the person with the hand wand making sure they can see

my hands at all times. Looking back I can see how threatening my diving

into a handbag must have been for the security. And if the truth be told,

both he and I were frightened. Laugh!

It was the only time before 9/11 that I set off an alarm, and looking back I

realise the security was rather jumpy. Perhaps they had been given warning

about something beforehand and thought I was it.

The thing I hate these days is having to take my shoes off to go through the

screening. I struggle putting them on and off especially if there are no

chairs about.

The only air travel I have done in the last 2 years is for my work. Hubby

won't take me overseas until I can walk better but, if I have to have my hip

redone I am having a trip before it. Even if I have to go by myself!

Aussie Margaret

RTHR 1990 revised 2004

Re: Crocodile Hunter (OT)

|

| Aussie Margaret is right - Australians are an easy going sort of people

.... at least until somebody rocks our boat! The death of Steve Irwin has

been a strange experience for me --- I first found out from an " ALL STAFF "

email which I received at about 2.00pm on Monday Sydney time. At first I

thought it must have been a staff member from one of our building tenancies.

I am not a TV watcher at all, so I must have been the only person in the

world to whom the name meant absolutely nothing. * hangs his head in

shame*

|

| Though there is plainly a majority of North Americans on this site it is

great to see the occasional member from some far flung place. Now that

aussie is with us we can now at least cover the eastern seaboard of

Australia and show a good time to any visitors from across the pond. In the

last years of her life my little sister was in a chair so I had advance

knowledge of the mobility impaired " friendliness " of Sydney sites which has

stood me in good stead now that my hip is causing me some grief. Btw, don't

let Aussie Margaret fool you ... the first time we met for dinner she had

parked her vehicle in a car park about a squillion miles away from where we

ate. She fared much better that I did in the walk back to the car!

|

| Aussie

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September 5, 2006

Margaret

I agree with you I always offer myself up as the sacrificial lamb at the airport and twll them that I have heaps of spare parts too.

I think that it is very undignified that they ask us to remove our shoes, as I have AFO's in both and like you find it very difficult to put them on and off

I refuse to do it if there is no chair

I never bother with documentation

Travelling within Australia is worse than overseas as whenever I go to Sydney, QLD or Tasmania they really give me the once over but when I went to Bali, they barely raised an eyebrow at the airport in Bali but once we were back in Oz they again gave me a really hard time

It is beginning to put me off travelling too especially as I cannot do everything that 'normal' people do, we just try and modify it

-- Re: Crocodile Hunter (OT)

Sorry ,

You get no sympathy from me. I did offer you a walking stick. You were too

proud to use it. Without a stick I would have been as bad as you.

For those wondering about travel after joint replacement what I say is go

for it. Since my first joint replacement I have been to Korea 3 times,

Indonesia once, and to Singapore 5 times (I really love Singapore and could

spend months there!).

The only time I had any trouble was once in Korea. I activated their alarm

system with my hip, and made the security really jumpy, especially when I

was looking for the documentation, that I had in my bag, to show I had an

artificial hip.

These days I mention to security, before I go through the screening process,

that I have an artificial hip. The documentation is useless anyway - and so

it should be. I would never reach into a bag after the alarm has gone off.

I just move over to the person with the hand wand making sure they can see

my hands at all times. Looking back I can see how threatening my diving

into a handbag must have been for the security. And if the truth be told,

both he and I were frightened. Laugh!

It was the only time before 9/11 that I set off an alarm, and looking back I

realise the security was rather jumpy. Perhaps they had been given warning

about something beforehand and thought I was it.

The thing I hate these days is having to take my shoes off to go through the

screening. I struggle putting them on and off especially if there are no

chairs about.

The only air travel I have done in the last 2 years is for my work. Hubby

won't take me overseas until I can walk better but, if I have to have my hip

redone I am having a trip before it. Even if I have to go by myself!

Aussie Margaret

RTHR 1990 revised 2004

Re: Crocodile Hunter (OT)

|

| Aussie Margaret is right - Australians are an easy going sort of people

..... at least until somebody rocks our boat! The death of Steve Irwin has

been a strange experience for me --- I first found out from an "ALL STAFF"

email which I received at about 2.00pm on Monday Sydney time. At first I

thought it must have been a staff member from one of our building tenancies.

I am not a TV watcher at all, so I must have been the only person in the

world to whom the name meant absolutely nothing. * hangs his head in

shame*

|

| Though there is plainly a majority of North Americans on this site it is

great to see the occasional member from some far flung place. Now that

aussie is with us we can now at least cover the eastern seaboard of

Australia and show a good time to any visitors from across the pond. In the

last years of her life my little sister was in a chair so I had advance

knowledge of the mobility impaired "friendliness" of Sydney sites which has

stood me in good stead now that my hip is causing me some grief. Btw, don't

let Aussie Margaret fool you ... the first time we met for dinner she had

parked her vehicle in a car park about a squillion miles away from where we

ate. She fared much better that I did in the walk back to the car!

|

| Aussie

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September 6, 2006

Aussies Jon & Margaret:

You guys have been lucky... living in Israel, we've been going through these checks for over 30 years... out to the airport at least 3 hours early, wait in line for security on the bags, check in, go through personal security... total time, between 1.5 & 2 hours.

Ever since my surgery, though, I've always gotten to the personal search with a copy of a letter on hospital letterhead paper, in several languages, explaining that I have 2 hip implants in my hand. This letter (I always travel with several photocopies of it) has helped me out in such places as: Paris, London, Madrid, Rome, Sao o, Porto Alegre and Tel Aviv. It also helped me out when I wanted to go into a bank in Porto Alegre to change some money... Brazilian banks have metal detectors, not for terrorist attacks, but against bank robbers... it seems that along with soccer, it's a national sport!

At any rate, the guard stopped me from entering, and since he spoke neither English, French, German or Hebrew, he had to call his supervisor... who did speak some English. In all cases, it was done without rancor, and I found that in all places, once they understood the letter, the security people were quite polite and understanding (even the French, who have a well-deserved reputation for rudeness to anyone not French). Maybe it has to do with the training of the personnel?

Whatever the reason, when leaving Heathrow in February, there was a security alert... hours of waiting in line, flights were delayed because of security, and I found that I just couldn't stand in line any more... I found a ground stewardess, and explained, showing her the letter... and she put me in the VIP check line, which moved a lot faster.

Security checks are really a shell game for us, with our spare parts, but I've never been asked to take off my shoes, not even during high alerts, once I show the security personnel my letter. If they ever want me to do a strip search, I'm gonna ask for a woman searcher!

Greywolf - RTHR-2003; LTHR-2004

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