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- From: robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty)
- Subject: Re: An official introduction...
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:40:31 GMT
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- darren@waikato.ac.nz writes:
- >robg@citr.uq.oz.au (Rob Geraghty) writes:
- >> No, not forgotten Ross. Note I was saying that Darren and Clare are
- >> close by each other. You and I are 2000km apart. Aren't Darren and
- >> Clare both in Auckland? The same city! What a concept! :-)
- >Well, close but not THAT close! I grew up (from about 7) in Auckland
- >but now I am in a teenyweenylittletown of 120000 people or so, which is
- >called a city in New Zealand! Hamilton is about an hour and a half drive
- >away from Auckland so it's still pretty close!
-
- Ummm - yes - the same distance I drive just about every weekend to go
- walking in the rainforest ;-)
-
- >Surely you or Ross could drive for, what, 20 hours to see each other?!
- >I remember doing a Sydney-Brisbane trip for a long weekend once- took
- >about 14 hours driving by myself! It seemed after wards that the whole
- >weekend was basically taken up with driving. (Or being in a complete daze!)
-
- With the cheap airfares I think I'd rather fly! It's not economical to
- drive. The current Sydney-Brisbane price is AUD$200 return. With the
- price of petrol is is *not* worth it!!
-
- Rob
- Official Journeyman-Harper of the RFA
- Who *still* can't believe he drove to Melbourne and back to go skiing!
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- Rob Geraghty | 3 things are important to me
- robg@citr.uq.oz.au | The gift of love, the joy of life
- CITR | And the making of music in all its forms
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