That's that funny dollar that they use north of the border up in Canada. Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: "CJ Lisa" <cjlisa@worldnet.att.net> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 7:57 PM Subject: Re: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > Hi could someone please explain what the C$ is -- is that the Euro $ or is > Euro $ something else again. BTW I was just in Switzerland and the xchange > rate was US 1$ - CHF 1.78 (Swiss Francs) Now I'm sorry that I didn't spend > some time in Germany as well. > > Thanks > Claire > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <lumby@air.on.ca> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 6:02 PM > Subject: Fwd: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > > > >Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:58:31 -0400 > >To: "Heinz L. Zulauf" <zulauf@bigfoot.de> > >From: lumby@air.on.ca > >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > > > >Well, lets see, Heinz > > > >According to the Toronto Globe and Mail the following are Saturday, > exchange rates: > > > >1 US $ = C$ 1.52 > >1 C $ = US $ .66 > > > >1 DM = C$ .67 > >1 C$ = DM 1.48 > > > >1US $ = DM 2.26 > >1 DM = US$ .4414 > > > >The exchange rate of the US vs C $ is why I spend my holidays in Germansy > rather than the US. While the C$ sank drastically compared to the US $, it > stayed the same as it has for the last 5 years against the Deutsche Mark. > > > >The other reason became evident this year, when my wife Sonja had an > accident on the same day we arrived in Stuttgard, and had to spend two days > in the Böblingen Krieskrankenhaus for tests. The entire stay, plus a > battery of tests,(she was considered "Privat") came to less that C$ 1400.00. > >I shudder to think what it would have cost in the US. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >At 11:37 PM 6/18/01 +0200, you wrote: > >>Would be great Ralf, please do. > >>_________________________ > >>Heinz L. Zulauf > >>Flotowstrasse 9 > >>D-64287 Darmstadt > >>Germany > >>zulauf@bigfoot.de > >>_______________________ > >>----- Original Message ----- > >>From: <lumby@air.on.ca> > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Check the German Food list out at: > GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp >

$1.50 today, Central Arkansas. Theola

Montana Theola ----- Original Message ----- From: "mary green" <greendmj@internetni.com> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 1:25 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits | If you compared all of Germany today to the state of Wisconsin, or one of these midwestern | states, how would they compare sizewise...........Germany is about the size of the state of ? | Mary | | ______________________________

>Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 17:58:31 -0400 >To: "Heinz L. Zulauf" <zulauf@bigfoot.de> >From: lumby@air.on.ca >Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] Gas Prices > >Well, lets see, Heinz > >According to the Toronto Globe and Mail the following are Saturday, exchange rates: > >1 US $ = C$ 1.52 >1 C $ = US $ .66 > >1 DM = C$ .67 >1 C$ = DM 1.48 > >1US $ = DM 2.26 >1 DM = US$ .4414 > >The exchange rate of the US vs C $ is why I spend my holidays in Germansy rather than the US. While the C$ sank drastically compared to the US $, it stayed the same as it has for the last 5 years against the Deutsche Mark. > >The other reason became evident this year, when my wife Sonja had an accident on the same day we arrived in Stuttgard, and had to spend two days in the Böblingen Krieskrankenhaus for tests. The entire stay, plus a battery of tests,(she was considered "Privat") came to less that C$ 1400.00. >I shudder to think what it would have cost in the US. > > > > > > > >At 11:37 PM 6/18/01 +0200, you wrote: >>Would be great Ralf, please do. >>_________________________ >>Heinz L. Zulauf >>Flotowstrasse 9 >>D-64287 Darmstadt >>Germany >>zulauf@bigfoot.de >>_______________________ >>----- Original Message ----- >>From: <lumby@air.on.ca>

Fred, I am sitting here laughing as I read your experience on traveling. Not laughing at you, but with you. Hubby and I own a 37 ft 5th wheel travel trailer and have encountered many such experiences on our travels. To narrow roads, trees to close together to be able to back into a site, water and sewer hookups not in the right spots, and now with slideouts not enough room to use them. We have experienced water pumps going out, transmission trouble and sometimes almost running out of gas looking for the lowest price. We hardly ever make reservations anymore as we never know where we might decide to stop. The one to top it off was when I directed hubby on a blacktop road--yes, you guessed it--just recently oiled, and spent the next few days trying to get the blacktop off of the camper and truck!! I have yet to live that one down!! Hopefully your eye will get better and be back on the road once again. A year from now when you tell this story you will laugh about it, but for now it isn't so funny. Just think - it has to get better, and when it does you can again see the world with TWO eyes. (not to mention the road). Enjoy the rest of your travels will be thinking about you. Phyllis > Diesel on the PA Extension of the turnpike was $1.47. I figured I'd > wait til I get off and go ter cheaper Petro truckstop on rt 80 & X-36 > as always used to be the case. Wonder of wonders; there it was > $1.57. They also stopped taking Exxon and Mobil credit cards. > > I'm presently sitting in the neighbourhood of Ashland, OH at a > campground called Hickory Lakes in West Salem. I had planned to > be in Hannibal, MO tomorrow. Things turned ugly when, in a last > minute task and the engine running before I took off from home, a > bee stung me in the right eyebrow. I just wanted to move the > wheelbarrow which was still sitting next to a small pile of compost > with a pitchfork in it. As I pulled the pitchfork, I must have disturbed > a hive under the pile and one came straight at me like a stuka > divebomber and went for my face. I tried to brush him off but his > stinger was first. > > So I just moved the wheelborrow into the garage and took off. > Yesterday the area around the eye started to swell up but I was > fine and arrived in OH at 5:45PM. We laft at 9:30 AM from Beverly, > NJ > > The idea was to get as close as possible to Columbus, OH on the > first leg of our trip and we were pulling off I71 to spend the night at > a truckstop. There was a sign right there for Hickory Lakes > campground: 7.6 miles straight ahead. I decided on the > campground because it was still early and our granddaughter would > enjoy it there a little more then among a bunch of trucks. The > straight ahead road lead to a T. Wonderful! I chose the wrong turn > as usual and made a left. This took us into Ashland where I pulled > into a service station. They pointed us back in the other direction. > he question was can I make the u-turn? My wife says, "Sure!". I > wasn't so sure and as we all know, there is no backup in a turn and > in the middle of Rt 250. It's the telephone poles at the street > corners which usually present the problem. I made it with 6 inches > to spare. > > So we now look for the campground. My wife finds it in the 1999 > Trailer Life book. I was looking in the 2001 version and couldn't find > it. There it was under Rosebaugh, OH in the old book and with 50 > amps. Well, they must handle larger rigs. So, we felt secure and > moved on looking for a sign. There it was leading us on a 90 degree > sharp turn onto a one lane road with signs on each corner. I had to > thread the needle to make the turn. Eventually there came another > sign to make a right at another one lane road. Take two such > things and cross them and you get trouble with the turn with a 45 > footer with a car behind. The rear wheels sunk into the soft grass > and the rig bounced through with plenty of pressure to the pedal. If > you go to slow you're stuck. The car bounced behind us and we > made it. Now we are faced with a farm road with trees hanging low > and wonder were fate is taking us. Eventually the entrance sign to > the campground appears. Holy moly I'll never make the turn into > their driveway. I park the rig in the street with flashers on and walk > over to the building where on registers. There were about 10 people > in there watching me or better the rig sitting at the bottom of the > driveway. I'll skip all the comments but it was plain that something > that big had never been here before. Yes they had a spot and yes it > had 50 amps. If I can unhook I should be able to make it, they say. > I walk back and by now there are a bunch of cars on both sides of > us trying to use the road. I didn'tthink 'anybody' used that road. > You have trouble passing each other without driving into the ditch. > There also was this bridge with a weight capacity of 30 tons which > was not much wider then my 102 inches. > > So we make it and settle into a nice spot and settled down etc etc. > The park population made the rounds inspecting what had pulled > into their life. There are all kinds of campers here for father's day I > guess. Trents, trailers, 5th wheels and smaller class As. Mostly > the locals are here and many have their mobile homes set up in the > park. The campfires smelled wonderful and the whole place > reminded me of times gone past when our kids were young and we > did the tenting scene. > > This morning I woke up with my entire right side of my face looking > like that of the elephant man. My eye was completely shut and > there was no way I could open it. We decided to stay the day and > called Hannibal to change our arrival. I took a sudafed and later > some benedryls and put an ice pack on my face and rested. It's > not going away and I was starting to get worried as to how long this > swelling might last. The folks at the office here suggested I go to > the emergency room and get a shot. One guy there claimed to > have bee sting allergy and that the shot made to swelling go away > in one day. So we're off to the emergency ward and we find it as we > wind our way along a whole series of (H) hospital signs. Should > have taken a map with us. The emergency room asks all the > pertinent qestions and gives me a full physical. I tried to explain > that all I wanted was a shot of something to make the swelling go > down. No dice. Eventually the doctor shows up for a full 10 > seconds aand tells me that he's going to prescribe some pills and > some salve for my infected eye. Didn't know I had an infected eye. > > Half an hour later the nurse comes into my little curtained cubicle > and describes all the medication I have to take. Three different pills > and the salve. Like this stuff will take up to 7 days to go away > because that's how long I have to take the pills on different > schedules. > > I rest some more as these things make you sleepy but eventually > wander over to the payphone where they had a modem jack > installed int it. That is outside without a table or anythng but at > least they had a jack. I picked up 195 messages and decided to > respond to this one without my glasses on and with my face about > three inches from the screen and keyboard. I hope I didn't make > too many mistakes but at least you can be part of my 'adventure'. > > We'll see what the morning will bring but if my eye isn't available for > us yet, I brought some tape with me and simply tape it open. I > drove the jeep to and back from the hospital and one can drive with > one eye but I'd rather have a little extra to get a better fix on > distances which is important with a behomoth. > > Fred >

I was not questioning your knowledge of using a calculator. I was supplying you with the translation of litres into the American Gallon and as well the Canadian Gallon. If you wish, I will also give you how many DM equal an American dollar, how many DM = a Canadian Dollar ( @ .69 C$ = DM 1) and how many C $ = US $1 and how many DM = 1US $. Let me know. Ralf Ralf

Fred, what a start! I'll be waiting for your further adventures. Lois

That is about what I figured at 1.80 DM per litre. Since it is about $1.41 here, I believe Ralf's original message should have been: "it is to weep, how LITTLE you pay for gas in the states." In the 1970s, with the exchange rate und the imperial gallon, I think we used to get better prices in Canada. Thomas Koch ----- Original Message ----- From: Heinz L. Zulauf <zulauf@wondernet.de> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 4:07 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits > If my calculator works correctly (and i think it does, Ralf) and assuming > the U.S. prices were given per American Gallon, the prices for U.S.A., > Canada and Germany would compare as follows (all prices in U.S.$ per > American Gallon) > > U.S.A. 1.70 > Canada 2.01 > Germany 3.65 > > Hope this is correct. > > > Heinz L. Zulauf > Flotowstrasse 9 > D-64287 Darmstadt > Germany > zulauf@bigfoot.de > _______________________ > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Klaus Dieter Cook" <kcook@signalgraphics-hou.com> > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 9:51 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits > > > > Figuring on an exchange rate of 2.23 it comes to right at $1 per liter. > > > > Klaus Dieter Cook > > Houston, Texas > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <lumby@air.on.ca> > > To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:41 PM > > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits > > > > > > > It is to weep, how much you pay in the States. > > > > > > Here in Canada, in Thunder Bay, it is C$ .81 per litre > > > > > > In Germany when we were there a month ago, it was DM 2.18 per litre. > > > > > > What is that in US $. > > > > > > Ralf Aldrich > > > > > > > > > At 11:16 AM 6/18/01 -0400, you wrote: > > > >$1.67-$1.78 (regular unleaded) here in Denver area !! > > > > > > > >Dave Ross > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > > >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > > > >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > >============================== > > > >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > > > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > > > >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > > Complaints: > > > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ============================== > > > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > > > your heritage! > > > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > > Check the German Food list out at: > > GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > > GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com and add the word SUBSCRIBE in the > message and send. > > > > ============================== > > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB > > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > To UNSUBSCRIBE from digest mode send a message to: > GERMAN-LIFE-D-request@rootsweb.com and add the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the message and send. > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 > >

Thomas Koch, You amaze me, with your great detail and advanced information base. I always pay special attention to your posts. Thank you. Mary Thomas Koch wrote: > My atlas is from 1967, but I do not believe the size has changed: > > BRD - 95,914 sq. mi. (West Germany) > DDR - 41,535 sq. mi. (East Germany) > tot - 137, 449 > CH - 15, 944 (Switzerland) > Austria - 32, 369 > Luxembourg - 999 > Lichtenstein - 63 > > some states > > Illinois - 50, 400 > Idaho - 83, 557 > Connecticutt - 5, 009 > Colorado - 104, 247 > Alaska - 586, 400 > USA 48 states - 3, 028, 811 > Montana - 147, 138 > Wisconsin - 56, 154 > South Carolina - 31, 055 > Pennsylvania - 45,333 (smaller than Wisconsin - surprising) > Michigan - 58, 216 (how much of that is Lakes?) > Rhode Island - 1, 214 > Quebec, Canada - 594, 860 > Hawaii - 6, 424 > > Thomas Koch, satisfying my curiousity > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: mary green <greendmj@internetni.com> > To: Thomas Koch <ferdinad@omnitelcom.com> > Cc: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2001 3:25 PM > Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits > > > > > If you compared all of Germany today to the state of Wisconsin, or one of > these midwestern > > states, how would they compare sizewise...........Germany is about the > size of the state of ? > > Mary > > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library

Ah, you're the Gail I asked to call if you had a chance when passing through Denver !! The penny dropped !! Dave Ross

Saw your note to Fred; where U in Colorado now ?? Dave Ross

Gail: The owner of BFI went bankrupt due to heavy investing in the "come" up there, and he lost everything !! Schade, for we LOVED that place too. I understand he's started up agin in Nederland, but I know nothing of it. Dave Ross

Gail: Gas $1.37 ?? Be right down !! Dave Ross, Denver

The joys of motor home traveling... try a trip to Utah and took a short cut and ended up on a one vehicle hanging bridge and you guessed it, the weight of the motor home made the bridge cables come in and it took care of the awning and the top of the motor home...and I have never lived that one down and had to turn around and go all the way back to 1-70... g

ruth: OPbviously, I'm not privy to your eating habits. If ytou go to Café Berlin, consider going on the early side; it fills up rapidly as the after-work/after-workout crowd begins to dirift in. Of course, with reservations, you should have no problem. And the Beer !! Dave

It is to weep, how much you pay in the States. Here in Canada, in Thunder Bay, it is C$ .81 per litre In Germany when we were there a month ago, it was DM 2.18 per litre. What is that in US $. Ralf Aldrich At 11:16 AM 6/18/01 -0400, you wrote: >$1.67-$1.78 (regular unleaded) here in Denver area !! > >Dave Ross > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! >

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Figuring on an exchange rate of 2.23 it comes to right at $1 per liter. Klaus Dieter Cook Houston, Texas ----- Original Message ----- From: <lumby@air.on.ca> To: <GERMAN-LIFE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 2:41 PM Subject: Re: [GERMAN-LIFE] German walking habits > It is to weep, how much you pay in the States. > > Here in Canada, in Thunder Bay, it is C$ .81 per litre > > In Germany when we were there a month ago, it was DM 2.18 per litre. > > What is that in US $. > > Ralf Aldrich > > > At 11:16 AM 6/18/01 -0400, you wrote: > >$1.67-$1.78 (regular unleaded) here in Denver area !! > > > >Dave Ross > > > > > > > > > >==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > >GERMAN-FOOD-L@rootsweb.com to subscribe send a message to: > >GERMAN-FOOD-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > >============================== > >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > > ==== GERMAN-LIFE Mailing List ==== > Complaints: > Contact the list administrator at: GERMAN-LIFE-L-admin@rootsweb.com > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog >

Ya, I'm the Gail that deleted the message with the phone number on it. g

No, I am heading that direction the weekend of the 8th of July, Twin Lakes that is where we lived after moving from IL. My heritage is German from Ostfriesland and my families lived in Ogle Co., IL. Gail