RANSVESTIA

write some articles about once I am free of the responsibilities of TVia.

Last year, which was 1978, I continued my river rafting experience by flying up to Lewiston-by way of Boise where I gave several seminars and interviews-to take off down the Snake River through Hell's Canyon by raft and kayak. It was something going over the rapids in a one man (woman) kayak and one time five of us just put on life jackets and went over a rapids as swimmers. That was exciting and a little panicky trying to get ashore from the middle of the river. This year, 1979, I am going to do it again—and will have by the time you read this-only this time it's going to be the Rogue River in Oregon. The Colorado and Snake flow through dry and desertous type country even though mountainous. But, the Rogue is a "pine and mountain" type of river and I look forward to that.

Also, in the fall of 1978, I took off for London-non-stop from Los Angeles, one of the longest non-stops, which got me into London a- bout 7 a.m. tired but glad to be there. The reason for the trip was to attend the 10th Annual Banquet of the Beaumont Society-the British FP society that I helped get started way back in 1969. The night be- fore, a Friday, they had a reception in one of the West End hotels which was a very nice occasion and gave me a chance to see and chat with Sonya of Yugoslavia whom I had first met in Dubrovnik in 1973, and with Lucy of Belgium who had shown me around Paris that same year, also a lot of the British girls whom I remembered from pre- vious trips. The following night the banquet was held in the new Ken- sington Town Hall-a beautiful new structure with large carpeted reception areas, dining room and dance floor. And there were 170 lovely ladies there but only about 25 of them were GGs. This was a really great affair, one that any American FP would have been thrilled to be a part of. After these two affairs and the preceding week in London, I flew to Boston and took the short cross-bay flight to Provincetown to attend Fantasia Fair. I had also been there in 1977 and this time wasn't much different but still a lot of fun. For me, the pleasure was getting to see and talk to lots of sisters who had pre- viously been only names on the mailing list of Chevalier and Tri Sigma.

At the end of the year I went on a trip to see the Galapagos Islands and parts of Ecuador and Peru. This was over the Christmas season and I must say it was a relief to get away from all the cards and com-

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