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- From: rickh@ems.cdc.com (Richard Herwig)
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- Subject: wolf sighting
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- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:03:52 GMT
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- Well, it was over a year ago but it*s still a sighting. I'll provide a story
- setting first. If it gets too boring for you, or you don*t like my politics
- plez skip to the end and be kind to your blood preasure!
-
- Last 4th of July, durring the great chest beating our country was doing in
- the Gulf, we decided to leave the country and avoid seeing an obnoxious
- display of pseudo-patriotism. My brother suggested Churchill Manatoba might
- be a fun place. You know, cold, polar bears, tundra,... Sounded good to us.
- An adventure! Let*s go!
-
- You drive to Winnepeg (sp) and buy a train ticket from Gilliam (the end of the
- road) to Churchill for $40C. Spend the next day and a half driving to Gilliam,
- the last 300K on a dirt road dodging rocks spit up by racing lumber trucks.
- (One of the local people told us to drive in the middle of the road until
- they slow down, and then move over to let them pass... right). No towns, no
- houses, no people for 300K. Lots of trees, lakes, streams, air.
-
- It*s 6:00 am, we*re on out way back to the madding crowd, Rox is driving, I*m
- trying to catch a few winks. As we round a left hand bend, up a small hill Rox
- sez, *Rick, what*s this !?*. I pop my head up above the dash and there in the
- middle of the road is a big wolf! It was facing left, with it*s head turned towards
- us approx 30 yards away. As we slowed to a stop, it turned it*s head and
- lumbered off the side of the road into the thick brush. The whole sighting
- must have lasted only 4 or 5 seconds, but the rush of seeing that wolf kept
- us awake till we camped later that day (we*d been up over 36 hours. You
- just can*t sleep on that train.) Had we been a little faster or slower we
- would have missed it. It was the highlight of the trip!
-
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- Richard F. Herwig - email: rickh@ems.cdc.com
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- To think God will protect you and your children is erroneous.
- He has already given us everything to cause the end of suffering.
- Stephen Levine
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