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On 07/14/2015 12:16 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 03:00:16 -0400, James Holsenback wrote:
>
>> On 07/14/2015 01:16 AM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:57:04 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 7/13/2015 8:10 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 13 Jul 2015 19:15:55 +0100, Stephen wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> On 7/13/2015 7:06 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Well, we've only been here a little over a year. ;)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That long?
>>>>>> My, how time flies.
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, we'll actually have been here 18 months the end of August.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> As I said. Time flies.
>>>
>>> Indeed it does - we're looking at maybe moving again in February - the
>>> rent is pretty steep here, and it's *extremely* crowded. We're looking
>>> at perhaps a place on Bainbridge Island, on the west side of Seattle
>>> (other side of Puget Sound).
>>
>> how far is that from bremerton shipyard ... my old ship the Kitty Hawk
>> (cv-63) is there. she was decommissioned in 2009 right now still in
>> ready reserve but there is a effort underway to save her from scrap heap
>> and becoming a museum in long beach close to the queen mary. the Ranger
>> (CV-61) lost that battle and just arrived (got towed) to brownsville
>> texas and will be dismantled as scrap. would be a shame if the hawk
>> ended up that way ... she was the first ship of the kitty hawk class and
>> the last one of that class in service. at one point she was the flag
>> ship if the navy and flew the red and white stripped "don't tread on me"
>> ensign
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Kitty_Hawk_%28CV-63%29
>
> As the crow flies, it's not far - but it's the other side of Port
> Orchard, so driving distance is about 30 miles. (There's no direct ferry,
> so taking the ferry takes longer - back to Seattle and then the Bremerton
> ferry, which docks there; it probably would take less time in light
> traffic from here in Bellevue than it would to take the ferry from BI to
> Bremerton).
if you ever make that way have a look ... from what i understand she's
close enough to the highway to see
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