Lacking I know... well I have loads of prizes to give away and first off is an elongated cent package. I personally pressed this lot in the past few weeks. Sorry, not all of them are coppers, I ended up having to use some zlincons, but anyway... along with the cents is a neat little album to hold them in which has an elongated with a flag inset in the front...

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To win just tell me about a great vacation you took or plan to take. Random winner will be chosen on Friday.

I'll make a round trip through South Africa in a few weeks and will see most of the country and finally meet a friend in person, I have met him through internet in 1998.

I went to Germany this year to Trier it was very nice there

My favourite non business or family visit vacation was the November 2000 trip my wife and I took to Paris. Paris in November is cold and often it rains in the evening, but really nothing can be more romantic. The cool drizzly evenings under the umbrella trapesing along the Seine and gazing at all of the lit up monuments, most notably the Tour Eiffel. The Tour Eiffel was lit up with lights in celebration of the year 2000 still.

The food, especially the croissants and ice creme were fantastic, and I even learned to appreciate French beer. I had been to Paris previously by myself, but in retrospect, Paris can be a very lonely city when you are by yourself, it is much much more enjoyable when you share it with someone you love. The cafe's are much more enjoyable, the walking around the arrondisements etc are much much more enjoyable. Not to mention shopping with the one you love.

For me it was in plan this summer to visit with my girlfriend the beautiful Bavarian medieval town Rothenburg ob der Tauber. It was'n't to be so, but I am optimistic, maybe in the next years...

July 1982. Week long visit to Atlanta. Drove down thru the Virginias and Carolinas. Stayed with friends. We did it all, Stone Mt., The General, Peach tree mall, Braves game, Atlanta Historical Sco., Gone with the wind Museum. Drove back thru Tennessee, Kentucky & Ohio. Had about $2 left when we got home.


Funny thing. Theres an old steam train that runs around Stone Mt. About 1/2 way around you get "boarded" by "Yankees".........Sounded like no Yankees I know...."Yall stay calm now."

I plan to visit Taiwan and find a couple of old friends that I made there. Not sure when but it is in the works.

One of my favorite trips was labor day 1999 when I took a week and went to Alaska! I landed in Achorage, then took the Alaska Railroad up north to Denali National Park. Stayed in a cabin and hiked around the park, looking at wildlife and enjoying the amazing sites. Finally took the train back to Anchorage and enjoyed some of the most awesome king crab legs at a local restaurant before going back to the airport and back to Portland. Lots of fun!

One of my favorite vacations was in 2000. Rocky & Fran came to Santa Fe and we drove to Colorado --- took the scenic route. Stopped in San Luis and visited our property. Then across Southern Colorado thru Pagosa -- my buddy Dave's home and on to Durango. Did the Durango Silverton Railroad. West from Durango to Four Corners then into Utah to the Moab area. Stayed for about 4 days in Moab. Went horseback riding into the back country to see some springs and Indian caves that are only reachable by horseback or foot (many days of hiking). Headed over to Az from there and then back into NW New Mexico. Saw a bunch of the Navajo towns and areas mentioned in Hillerman's books.

One of the best times of my life.

That's my next big trip hopefully.

Oooh. Pagosa is one place I want to go back to. We just passed through, but I was drawn to it.

One of my memorable vacations was also my honeymoon. We borrowed my father-in-law's work van, drove up Finland to Norway and then back down for over a week. We slept in the van on side roads, ate simple foods that we purchased from grocery stores, visited simple sights...basically travelled broke. But we had the best time on the road and loved every minute of it. It was so memorable that we did it again for our 10th anniversary.

Since we slept in the van and not in hotels, we had no shower access so we had to bath in rivers/lakes. The falls you see comes from snow and ice melt from the mountains in Norway, quite a chilly shower.

I plan to make a student exchange to Brandeton, Florida in 2 or 3 years.
The problem is, that only 15 - 20 pupils from my school can make this student exchange, and we've got 4 different classes per year. For example there's a class 8A, 8B, 8C and 8D. I don't know the American system, but that's the German one. If my english is good enough I can visit Florida for 3 or 4 weeks. I go to school like each other pupil and, well, I'm living in an American family. But I'm sure I can expend my English language here in 3 years
I'm sure this student exchange would be a great beginning to have friends in the USA and perhabs I can visit them every year or something like that.

Oh.. and next year I want to visit my aunt in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, it's a German state on the Baltic Sea.

Greetings
Marvin "who hopes to win the contest "

( Please correct me, when there are any grammar mistakes, just mark it wrong )

Sry, doublepost

And the winner is...



Congrats Art.

I will put up another contest here in the next day or so.

WOW! I won. Thanks Tiffibunny. I really like elongated coins. Maybe I should start a formal collection of them. Maybe I already have......

I received my elongated coins from the contest along with a neat album for storage/display. A great prize. Thank you.