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Re: [OM] Meet Charlie G.

Subject: Re: [OM] Meet Charlie G.
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 06:06:34 +0100
I agree. 

Chris

> On 11 Oct 15, at 22:36, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the nice image of Charlie.  We exchange comments from time to 
> time.  Nice to see him in person.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> 
> On 10/11/2015 4:29 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>> Charlie G:  <http://zone-10.com/tope2/main.php?g2_itemId=19011>
>> 
>> My wife and I went to Charleston for a couple of days.  On the first night 
>> there we also met up with Charlie Geilfuss across the Cooper River from 
>> Charleston in Mt. Pleasant, SC.  We had an excellent dinner at the Basil 
>> Thai Restaurant at modest cost. Unfortunately, Charlie's wife was not able 
>> to make it so we didn't meet her.
>> 
>> While in Charleston we took 2 horse drawn historical tours operated by 
>> Classic Carriage Works (managed by Tina Manley's son Tim). Highly 
>> recommended. The first was a broad brush historical tour of the city... it 
>> was excellent. The second was a tour focused on the Civil War... it was 
>> superb. Ask for Matt on that tour. He's a walking encyclopedia on the war 
>> except that he's anything but boring like an encyclopedia. Charleston, of 
>> course, is where the war started.  Matt could probably talk for hours about 
>> who, how and why.
>> 
>> Incidentally, while Charleston experienced a lot of scattered flooding from 
>> the storm associated with hurricane Juaquin, by the time we got there there 
>> was little evidence of it.  The drive down to Charleston (about 2 hours) was 
>> also problem free except for losing about 20 minutes to a large traffic 
>> backup about 20 minutes from home.  The southbound lanes of US 17 had a 
>> couple of inches of water running across them for about 50 yards.  Traffic 
>> had to cross slowly using only the left hand lane.  It doesn't take long for 
>> traffic to back up when using only one lane at 5 mph on a 60 mph highway.
>> 
>> Chuck Norcutt
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