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The wife hates it...thinks I'm going to hell. :biggrin:

But hey, since I have been outed as a lurking lurker who lurks, maybe some of you guys can give me a little feedback about a couple of little bits of land a day behind me. (I know its perhaps not the right place be asking, but, well, too bad). I'm planning on doing an RV trip for 3 weeks from a few days prior to yule celebrations (for me at least), starting in LA, San Diego, Tijuana, Las Vegas, Canyons of all sorts, new Mexico, then up, colorado, up more to Mt Rushmore, then back down, Salt lake city, across to San Fran, back down to LA and then back to the future. Keeping it all pretty open, so can see what we want when we want and all that. Distances are OK, lived in Australia for a few years, so 12 hours drives are no worries...but main queries I have are to do with the sky. whatsit going to be like late december, early Jan?
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Conveniently, Neopagans don't believe in hell. :mrgreen:

Sounds like a great trip! You shouldn't have any problems, weather-wise, in the Southwest at that time. You might very well hit snow in the Rockies and further north, tho. You might want to ask your question in GenDisc -- you're likely to get a better range of answers there. We've got Watchers in pretty much all of those places. 8)
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Very convenient indeed!

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mokum wrote: I must not fear.
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Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
And a Dune fan?

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Mokum, just to establish credibility: I have lived all over the Western US for all but seven years of the last half-century.

Were it any other time of year, I would be advocating that you extend your trip north to Portland and Seattle...if not Vancouver. However, driving an RV that far north in December is pretty problematic.

If you are confident of your ability to drive an RV over mountain passes under snow chain conditions, your plan is fine. If you are not so sure, I would advise that you keep your crossings of the Sierras (the mountains between the western coast of the US and the desert interior) to the south. From Salt Lake City, head back south to LA, then travel up through California to San Francisco. Do not skip SF, and be sure to contact Cameraman Jenn (defacto leader of the SF contingent of Watchers) before visiting.

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mokum wrote: I must not fear.
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And a Dune fan?

Get out of Announcements and start posting. :D

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I must confess that mokum's Dune joke got me to re-read Dune this weekend. And now I want to re-read all the sequels (weird as they are), but I don't own those, so I would have to get them out of the library.
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So go do it. ;)

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Too busy re-reading GRRM. :biggrin:

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never read dune - seems like a lot of work...
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Why would you think it's a lot of work, more than any other book you might read. Many read only Dune and never bother with the sequels. It can stand alone quite nicely.
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It's a pretty quick and easy book. Nothing dense.
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maybe because i saw the movie and it was ponderous?
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It was, but the book isn't. Give it a whirl.
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Oh, the book is actualy pretty good. It does start to drag once you get into the later books written by Herbert the Younger. Some of those make OK reading as "stand alone" kind of things. Sort of like reading "Gildenfire", they can almost be read alone.
Forget the TV miniseries. The original movie with Sting in it was pretty good. But as with TCOTC and the Gap series, there is alot of "internal" stuff going on that does not translate well to screen.
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My sister thought the movie was awful, but she liked the book.
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mokum wrote:The original movie with Sting in it was pretty good.
Uh, no. The ending was all wrong; rain on Arrakis at that point in the story arc is a major WTF moment. The production values are poor; some of the special effects are incredibly bad considering the budget. The screenplay is overly influenced by early '80s culture instead of being set in the timeless realm that Frank Herbert intended.

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And the sonic weapon with his name as a "kill word?"

Uh-uh, I really don't like the movie. And the casting was bad, except for Feyd and the Baron maybe. (Yueh was ok too I guess.)

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Someone said the person who played the Shadout Mapes was good, too.
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