Hello from Switzerland

[Sandy G]

Kewl ! My 1st TV was a Sony 5-303W, that my parents got me for Xmas, 1962. It suffered the tortures of the damned-And belonging to a 5 yr old til it died the summer they landed on the Moon, & my parents got me a 9 incher Sony. and, yeah, America is sometimes too big-My sister & I both attended school in Richmond, Virginia-I was at University of Richmond, & she was at St Catherine's-a girls' boarding school. She was big buds w/these 2 girls-one was from Texas, & the other was from England, & neither could go home during Thanksgiving break, there not being enuf time to go home & back to school. Anyhow, we told 'em they could come home w/me & my sister. Well, the English gal pipies up about half an hour out of R'mond-"How much longer is it to Tennessee ?!? Are we about there yet ?" "Uhh, well, Joanna, honey, it's roughly 450 miles, about 1.30 in the afternoon, we'll be home about 8.30 or 9 PM... I hope.." Europeans always get flipped out at how damn big America really is-You drive THAT long there, & you'd typically be thru 3 or 4 countries, anyway..We just went thru Virginia, & about 100KM of Tennessee... The Texas gal was snoring soundly-A trip of that nature in Texas is no big deal...