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Hi Gordon:

I live in Ukiah about a block from Vichy Springs Resort which advertises
that Jack London stayed there on a number of occasions.
At that time it would have been quite a journey by horse and buggy from
either Oakland or San Francisco to here.
http://www.vichysprings.com/history.html

Have Fun,

Brooke Clarke, N6GCE

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Gordon Talge wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>Has anybody read "The Cruise of the Snark" by Jack London?
>
>He has a great chapter called "Finding One's Way About" This is
>a quote, "...navigating by observations of the sun, moon,
>and stars, thanks to the astronomers and mathematicians, is
>child's play." "Any average young fellow can teach himself
>in a week."
>
>He goes on to describe how he taught himself navigation and
>sailed the Snark from San Francisco to Hawaii with his wife
>and a friend.
>
>He does, however make a distinction between seamanship and navigation.
>
>I understand that Jack London died around age 40 in 1916. He
>must have lived one heck of an interesting and adventure filled
>life. I am kicking up around 50 and I haven't had 1/100th of
>his adventures.
>
>-- Gordon
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