Toronto Fixed
12-12-06 | 06:16 PM
Dances With Cars
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Last thing I'd ever want to do is be out of sight of land. Pass. I had a buddy that crewed at tourist catamaran in the US Virgins every winter. Scumbag would come back in the sping all tanned and fit and go tree planting for the summer. 
12-12-06 | 06:25 PM
cab horn
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Goold ole land. Hasn't failed me yet.
12-12-06 | 07:11 PM
Dances With Cars
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mmm Land you're always so hard when I face plant on you. So quick to give me road rash or a nice hipper. You let me powerslide downhill at full speed on a skateboard and live to tell about it, I thank you land.
12-12-06 | 07:25 PM
Shiftless bum
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
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Getting back to the land, Newfoundland, particularly gros morne, is an amazing trip. $400 return to fly into Deer Lake, then bike up to the park and further if you want. The ex and I did it a couple of years ago riding up to St. Anthony. Honestly once you get much past the park north it's pretty barren although l'aux a meadows is pretty interesting.
pics here https://cavit8.zidev.com/newfoundland/html/index_0.html
pics here https://cavit8.zidev.com/newfoundland/html/index_0.html
12-12-06 | 07:31 PM
Dances With Cars
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Is that where you have to check in with the park wardens if you are proceeding North? "just in case...." dang ...now I wanna totally go back to the East Coast too Shizy this should be a super trip.
12-12-06 | 07:52 PM
Shiftless bum
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From: Ottawa, Ontario
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There's a cross-country hike in to Gros Morne from a spot I don't recall. They give you a GPS and come get you if you're really late for check-in. There's no bears, raccoons or skunks on the rock, which is kind of nice. Tons o' moose though.
12-12-06 | 08:13 PM
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Geez, cavit8, your pictures are really nice. I was lucky enought to do a four day hiking trip in Gros Morne, and that really sent me back. It's incredible there. Did you guys do the 'Grand Traverse'? I wanted to, but didn't have the skills to pass the test.
12-12-06 | 08:20 PM
Shiftless bum
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No, we were self sustained so didn't carry the gear to do the Traverse (the route from Western Brook Pond to Gros Morne). We did some hiking around Green Gardens, Green point and Trout River. Next time, though, I'll definitely be going back.
12-12-06 | 09:04 PM
So I says to Mable I says
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actually, there are bears.. no grizzlies, but brown bears. Plus the occasional polar bear that drifts in on an iceberg (no jokes).
12-12-06 | 09:17 PM
Shiftless bum
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Point. We were at a spot just out of St. Anthony where a polar bear had been spotted a couple of weeks before. MIsfired no the bears, so no muffins in your tent if you go.
12-12-06 | 09:32 PM
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Originally Posted by cavit8
Point. We were at a spot just out of St. Anthony where a polar bear had been spotted a couple of weeks before. MIsfired no the bears, so no muffins in your tent if you go.
Cheers
12-12-06 | 09:41 PM
Tie me up, Tie me down
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As we all should know bears are the number threat to any nation.
Edit: For all those into food the best pork and poultry I've found in the city comes from here www.freshfromthefarm.ca
Edit: For all those into food the best pork and poultry I've found in the city comes from here www.freshfromthefarm.ca
Last edited by Offhoff; 12-12-06 at 10:04 PM.
12-13-06 | 12:37 AM
cab horn
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Originally Posted by somnambulant
Plus the occasional polar bear that drifts in on an iceberg (no jokes).
As we all should know bears are the number threat to any nation.
Last edited by operator; 12-13-06 at 12:44 AM.
12-13-06 | 12:03 PM
Fix Turns My Crank
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From: Land of the Rising Sun
i hear sassafraz is up in flames...
12-13-06 | 12:09 PM
Shiftless bum
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Originally Posted by operator
haha
Especially this one
Especially this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygYFIqCZAdM
12-13-06 | 12:18 PM
Banned.
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Originally Posted by Offhoff
As we all should know bears are the number threat to any nation.
Edit: For all those into food the best pork and poultry I've found in the city comes from here www.freshfromthefarm.ca
Edit: For all those into food the best pork and poultry I've found in the city comes from here www.freshfromthefarm.ca
...or if you want the good stuff
https://www.cumbraes.com
12-13-06 | 12:19 PM
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My knee is ****ed. This is so annoying. I took last week off and now after working a half day yesterday I couldn't go to work again today due to stiffness/pain/inability to pedal my bike. Doctor/Chiropractor both told me to push it a bit but also give it time to rest/recover. That basically means I am going to be working periodically for half days for the next couple of weeks or so. And this is the busy season too so its big $ time (relatively speaking) in the Messenger business. I want to ride my bike dammit! I'm going nuts! 
12-13-06 | 12:22 PM
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Originally Posted by fixedude
i hear sassafraz is up in flames...
Now where will people too good for us not eat, look at each other & have really strange colored drinks?
12-13-06 | 12:39 PM
Gone, but not forgotten
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hmmm... That restaurant wasn't very good and was an eyesore, and I always saw actors I hate through the window. So far Tom Cruise, Ben Affleck and Nicholas Cage. These are pretty much my 3 most hated actors. So in my books that restaurant never had much going for it.
12-13-06 | 12:47 PM
Shiftless bum
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Originally Posted by fixedude
i hear sassafraz is up in flames...
12-13-06 | 12:49 PM
Call me The Breeze
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Originally Posted by Offhoff
Edit: For all those into food the best pork and poultry I've found in the city comes from here www.freshfromthefarm.ca
12-13-06 | 12:59 PM
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Originally Posted by fixedude
i hear sassafraz is up in flames...
12-13-06 | 01:12 PM
::3 o'clock roadblock::
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Originally Posted by Danhalen
My knee is ****ed. This is so annoying. I took last week off and now after working a half day yesterday I couldn't go to work again today due to stiffness/pain/inability to pedal my bike. Doctor/Chiropractor both told me to push it a bit but also give it time to rest/recover. That basically means I am going to be working periodically for half days for the next couple of weeks or so. And this is the busy season too so its big $ time (relatively speaking) in the Messenger business. I want to ride my bike dammit! I'm going nuts!
that sux man!! make money money on those half days star!
12-13-06 | 01:37 PM
::3 o'clock roadblock::
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Originally Posted by BoomBoomBoom
Burn baby Burn! Disco Inferno!
Now where will people too good for us not eat, look at each other & have really strange colored drinks?
Now where will people too good for us not eat, look at each other & have really strange colored drinks?
12-13-06 | 01:39 PM
Dances With Cars
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Re: sassafraz..I figure you could only be so snotty to so many people for so long.