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Er, it’s Modesto, not Merced.
2 years agoGreg
I reckon that you did all the good Samaritan stuff necessary.
Well done!
And I’ve even heard of Carlton College! I even knew someone who went there. She picked it because her last name was Carlton. No relation though.
2 years agoHave heard of St Olaf’s for a long time. Thanks for the campus tour.
2 years agoThe town of Merced in the California Central Valley has an arch at their entry that says in neon “Water Wealth Contentment Health”. Place is an irrigated desert. I always snickered at the contentment part, but here you go showing me another town with that in its motto. Almost can’t beat the Cows part either. HOWEVER, there’s a little town in SW Michigan that has a sign that says People Pigs Prosperity. So far my favorite. Cows College Contentment is up there, especially since it has St Olaf’s.
2 years agoThanks, Keith, and St. Olaf College brought back some memories for me too. I hadn't been there since I retired nine years ago. I managed paint stores for my career, and St. Olaf College was one of my best customers. Their building maintenance budget was enormous, and the guys in the Paint Department were incredibly friendly. Heck, they usually insisted on treating ME to lunches on their expense accounts. Usually, that's supposed to work the other way around in the vendor/buyer relationship. We sold paint to Carlton College and the University of Wisconsin at River Falls too, but never got the same treatment from them.
2 years agoYes, the picnic tables are the best part of camping in a real campground vs. wild camping. My favorite North American animal has always been the mountain lion. I actually saw one on my first long bike tour from Seattle to Minneapolis. It was a major thrill.
2 years agoThanks for the story about your successful, St. Olaf grad friend--especially the part about the Charlie Chaplin alarm clock. LOL
2 years agoHi,
Northfield is one of my favorite small towns in Minnesota. For reasons I don’t remember I was there a lot. The college atmosphere was one of its charms, but then I worked in a college, so one might think I would have had enough of that and not spent free time in what essentially is the same environment. But I did and your pics are soliciting good memories. Thanks.
Cheers,
Keith
Bicycle yoga, YES! Maybe I'll come up with a few more poses and make Bicycle Yoga a theme for my next mini-tour.
2 years agoYeah, that was my first one of the year too. Soon they should be out in full force, sunning themselves on blacktop roads everywhere.
2 years agoThat is a very nice campus, and it does feel weird to still feel mentally like you could belong but then look at the students and think... OMG, they are sooooo YOUNG! My high school senior year roommate went to St Olaf for her undergrad. But her family owned a golf course or two and she got scholarships... so affordable for her I guess! She now lives in LA, works in the film industry and hob nobs with big stars.... And I knew her when she overslept her Charlie Chaplin alarm clock on a daily basis back in lowly Muncie, IN, lol.
2 years agoAmazing it never burnt down at some point!
2 years agoBicycle yoga - it's next fad after goat yoga, I tell you, so you are on the cutting edge!
2 years ago
Hi,
2 years agoWow, I didn’t know the Archer house was gone. I had dinner in the restaurant with my wife a few times. We rather liked the old place.
Shame, really.
Keith