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'RETIREMENT' IS NEVER DULL

IN THE LIFE OF VIRGINIA PRINCE

Gone but not forgotten, that's me. I mean that I am gone as Editor of TVia but I hope that I am not forgotten. From timw to time I will reappear in this corner to give you an update on activities or ideas

This time out I want to report what I did after I turned over the responsibility of Tvia to Carol. After doing that in July I applied most of my energies to converting my double garage into an attractive apartment so that there could be someone on the property to look after it and my little dog while I was gone. With that finished and rented I took off Sept 15 for New York where I joined a tour group at JFK for a trip to Africa. Having flown six hours to get to New York we then took off for an all night flight to Rio.

As a result we were really beat when we arrived. I found that my room mate was to be a 30 year old nurse from Toronto. Most of our group of 22 was from California and as some of you may know, since we have so much sunshine out here, we like to refer to the rainy times as "unusual weather." Well, we Californians managed to bring our “unusual weather" with us. It was so foggy in Rio that we could not go up the Corcuvado mountain (where the big statue of Christ is); in fact, you couldn't even

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