If i were were a rich man

[Ole_Hickory]

Vin,
I really enjoy your posts,I love to read about the outback.
Thanks for sharing the nice pictures !!!

 

[daedong]

I must apologize, I got a bit wrapped up in my backyard, I want to no about yours /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[dmccarty]

daedong,

That is one pretty picture! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif I can imagine some kid coming from crowded Japan being freaked out with that much empty room. Course I would be freaked out if I had to be in a crowded Japanese city. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

The fact that Sydney has 25% of the Australian population is interesting. Years ago I worked for a UK company that was opening operations in the states. I was one of the few Americans in the company with most people being from all around the world. Great experience. Many/Most of the people have stayed in the US and become US citizens. What was funny was that they figured that they had been to SE Florida and or NY city there fore they had seen the US!!! /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif Yeah right. Its a huge cultural difference to drive an hour or so from SE FL to SW FL. Or at least it used to be. That to may have changed.
/forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

One of the wierd things I learned from the UK people is a bit of Cockney Rhyming Slang. Hold on there is the Dog and Bone........

I'm back. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

They other strange thing about the UK was that it is such a small place compared to the US yet they have some many dialects. Some of the people I could barely understand yet they where speaking English!!!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Later,
Dan

 

[daedong]

Dan

The gap in difference between city folk and country folk has narrowed incredibly in th last 30 yrs here, i guess that has happened in the US as well.
Another interesting thing is 30 yrs ago in Aust we still had many habits and traditions that were English. our slag came from England (cockney) and Ireland.
Today is a totally different story, more and more we speak and live more like your country. It may not seem that way on the surface to you but i assure you we do. I believe this has happened because of faster communications, big businesses like Nike, and TV. Please don't take this wrong but we get shoved in or face every day TV programs from U.S. JUSTICE TEXAS, OPRAH, JUDGE JUDY, THE NANNY, ETC ETC! Even your ABC Business Hour.

The list below is mainly cockney but many are or should i say used to be use here in oz. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
put on your bag of fruit suit
Adam and Eve Believe
Apples and Pears Stairs
Ascot Races Braces
Aristotle Bottle
Almond Rocks Socks
April Fools Football Pools
Artful Dodger Lodger
Aunt Lil Till
Ball and Chalk Walk
Barnaby Rudge Judge
Barnet Fair Hair
Beak Judge (going up before the beak)
Bees and Honey Money
Bird Lime Time
Boat Race Face
Bob Hope Soap
Bo Peep Sleep
Bother Trouble
Brahms and Liszt Drunk
Bread and Honey Money
Bricks and Mortar Daughter
Brown Bread Dead
Butcher's Hook Look
Cain and Abel Table
Current Bun Sun
Cat and Mouse House
Cushty Good
China Plate (China) Mate
Daisy Roots Boots
Dicky Bird Word (Don't say a "Dicky Bird")
Dinky Doos Shoes
Doing Porridge Serving a Prison Sentance
Dog and Bone Telephone
Duchess of Fife (Duchess) Wife
Dicky Dirt Shirt
Duke of Kent Rent
Dustbin Lid Kid
East and West Vest
Elephant and Castle Parcel
Filth The Police
Flowery Dell Cell (Prison Cell)
Frog and Toad Road
Frying Pan Old Man
Fiver Five Pounds
Gladrags Best Clothes
Grand One Thousand Pounds
Grassup Inform on (I was grassed up)
Gregory Peck Neck
Gutted Unhappy
Guv Boss
Half-inch Pinch (to steal)
Holy Ghost Toast
Hampstead Heath Teeth
Hot Cross Bun Son
Isle of Wight Light
Itch and Scratch Match
Johnny Horner Corner
Jam Jar Car
Jam Tart Heart
Joanna Piano
Jackanory Story
Jimmy Riddle Piddle (urinate)
Joe Brown Town
Khyber Pass Arse
Kick and Prance Dance
Kippers Slippers
Kitchen Sink Drink
Lady Godiva Five Pounds
Laugh and Titter Bitter (beer)
Leave it out Stop it
Lemonade Spade
Lilley and Skinner Dinner
Loan Shark Unofficial Money Lender
Loop the Loop Soup
Lord Lovell Shovel
Mince Pies Eyes
Man on the Moon Spoon
Mutton Jeff Deaf
Monkey Five Hundred Pounds
Mother of Pearl Girl
Nark Police Informer
North and South Mouth
Noah's Ark Lark
Oily Rag Fag (cigarette)
Okey Doke Poke
One-Er One Hundred Pounds
One and T'other Brother
Oxford Scholar Dollar
Paraffin Lamp Tramp
Pen and Ink Stink
Plates of Meat Feet
Plink-Plonk Vin Blanc (wine)
Pony Twenty Five Pounds
Pork Chops Cops/Police (Pigs)
Porky Pies Lies
Potatoes in the Mould Cold
Quid One Pound
Rabbit and Pork (Rabbit) Talk
Rosie Lee Tea
Rub-a-dub-dub Pub
Ruby Murray Curry
Rumbled Found out
Sausage and Mash Cash
Scapa Flow Go
Score Twenty Pounds
Scotch Pegs (Pegs) Legs
Screw Prison Officer
Septic Tank Yank
Skin and Blister Sister
Sky Rocket Pocket
Snout Informer
Steam Tank Bank
Stitched Up Set Up
Sussed Out Found Out
Sweeny Todd Police (Flying Squad)
Tea Leaf Thief
Tenner Ten Pounds
Tiddlywink Drink
Tit for Tat Hat
Todd Sloane On your own (on your Todd)
Tomfoolery Jewellery
Ton One Hundred
Tom Mix Six
Tom and Dick Sick
Tenner Ten Pounds
Trouble and Strife Wife
Tin Tack Sack
Trick Cyclist Psychiatrist
Uncle Ned Bed
Vera Lynn Gin
Whistle and Flute Suit

 

[California]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What would the best states be for a holiday in USA or Canada - daedong )</font>

Include California, of course!

I'm a little late replying - I was vacationing in Yosemite Valley when you wrote, then finally today got my my photo edit program set up properly.

This (attached) was the view from our Yosemite campsite. We luckily got a site right on the Merced River with this unobstructed view.

That's a vertical mile from the valley to the top of Half Dome, about 8800 ft elevation at the top vs 3400 ft in the valley.

In California a minor fad is those country-of-origin oval bumper stickers. My favorite is YNP. Yosemite National Park, of course.

In my opinion Yosemite is the heart of California. Come experience it!

 

[daedong]

Thats magnificent, unbelievable
I want more pics, more pics, more pics, more pics, more pics
How long were you away, were you camping?

 

[California]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Thats magnificent, unbelievable
I want more pics, more pics, more pics, more pics, more pics )</font>

OK. I love the place.

It takes us an afternoon to drive up, and we tent-camp. Reservations are difficult so I suggest get a hotel room through a travel agent.

Here's another photo attached. I'm on the Mist Trail to Vernal Falls. Note the visitors farther up the trail (center right in my photo) and at the top of the falls.

Also, I put 'Vernal Falls Yosemite' into Google and
http://www.naturephoto.com/html/090.htm
was one of the hits. That professional photographer's site has several photos in Yosemite you might like.

 

[daedong]

That place is awesome, unbelievable, Leaning Tower what a site, it must be massive.
thanks for that.

 

[_RaT_]

" I've been to Alaska and hiked to the base of McKinley, Canada to Banff and Jasper, Maine to Acadia to Hawaii, all over Yellowstone and Glacier park. Colorado, Idaho, Washington state, Wyomings Tetons, Oregon and many more beautiful places. I have yet to see anything yet quite as breathtaking as <font color="green"> Yosemite. " </font>


I'm telling you, just like I said in my earlier post, it's incredible. Go there in spring and catch the massive Yosemite Falls. Rat.... Just one of thousands of web pages with Yosemite pictures. None do it justice.

 

[hennydamule]

Like RAT, I've been very fortunate to be able to travel all over this country. Been to all states except Alaska, and it is definitely on the list! I spent three of the best weeks of my life last summer island hopping with the wife in Hawaii. Being able to hike over lava fields to see an erupting volcano was one of the most incredible sites. The next day spent hiking in the rain forest. Taking a day off at the beach. Then scuba diving the next... It just had the best of so many worlds.

However, on the mainland, you've got to give yourself some time and just go from National Park to National Park in the West. It's simply amazing! Although large, this is a possible feat, get in the Grand Canyon, Bryce canyon, Yosemite, Zion, Sequoia, Yellowstone (although overcrowded). They're all unique and incredible. If for some reason you find yourself in the East, be sure to get over to Acadia.