Re: #315 on Sept. 27, 2009 (part 3)

GeorgeGaskill Wrote:
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> I gather you (Greg) are at least as old as I am
> (63) because you bandy the number $50 about like
> it is a lot of money. When we were young, it was
> a lot of money but today, it is a half a tank of
> gas for my pickup truck. Obviously not everyone
> can use $50 bills to light their cee-gars but it
> is a small portion of the overall trip.

Actually am several years behind you George. I mentioned $50.00
once, as an example of spending that much money for EACH RUNBY shot.
Obviously if you do 10 runbys and the cost of the trip is $300.00 then its $30.00. It was just an example, since I did not really know how much the trip costs, nor how many runbys. Russo later pointed out there were more than he showed us images of!!!

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> I drove to Cut Bank, Montana from southern
> California and spent about $500 on gas and about
> the same on lodging (I eat here or there so I
> don't count food as a travel cost.) The whole
> train ticket is less than either.

Its all based on your perception of value I guess!!
Each to his own. Its hard sometimes to put all this in perspective
when in 1972 I spent $500.00 on an entire 30 day trip to Europe to see steam in regular service. Thats right the whole trip from including airfare, my third of a rental car and lodging was $500.00. The airlines was Icelandic Airways, to Luxembourg via Reykevik, Iceland. That was big bucks for a college student, but we got lots of steam value, and untold adventures.
Greg

Greg