[at-l] Fwd: Hiking mailmen (was Geez Guys!!)

[Jim Bullard]

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jim Bullard <jim.bullard at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 4, 2006 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: [at-l] Hiking mailmen (was Geez Guys!!)
To: Gadog430 <gadog430 at charter.net>


Some ride (drive actually), some walk, some stand behind a counter. My
friend is the polar opposite of the euphemistic "postal". He's the
calmest, happiest, friendliest guy I know. He used to walk a route now
he tends a small town PO (when he's not hiking).

On 12/4/06, Gadog430 <gadog430 at charter.net> wrote:
> Mailmen ride in the South. How do you guys do things up North?
>
> Southern Girl Dawg
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mara Factor" <m_factor at hotmail.com>
> To: <kent_gardam at yahoo.com>; <athiker at smithville.net>
> Cc: <at-l at backcountry.net>
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 5:53 PM
> Subject: [at-l] Hiking mailmen (was Geez Guys!!)
>
>
> > In 1999, there were at least two mailmen on the trail.  Candleman was
> > working as a mailman (in England) before he thruhiked.
> >
> > Also, Cujo (aka Pete Palmer) was working as a mailman in Connecticut prior
> > to completing the Appalachian Trail in a record 48 days, 20 hours and
> > change.  I found out later that he had been my aunt's mailman before
> leaving
> > for the trail.
> >
> > So much for a busman's holiday...
> >
> > Mara
> > Stitches, AT '99
> >
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> > http://friends.backcountry.net/m_factor
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> >
> >
> >
> > >From: Kent Gardam <kent_gardam at yahoo.com>
> > >Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 14:21:24 -0800 (PST)
> > >
> > >... what are the chances that a mailman would want to be a hiker on his
> > >days off?  Sort of the proverbial bus-man's holiday, doncha think?
> >
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Jim Bullard
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-- 
Jim Bullard
http://www.jimbullard.org
http://hiking.jimbullard.org
http://jims-ramblings.blogspot.com/