One night's bunkmates???

[khaynie]

Scarlett Johansen
Matisyahu
Dennis Miller
Stone Cold Steve Austin

[Mailbox]

1. Merlyn, from T.H. White's The Once and Future King
2. Al Roker from the Today Show, to see what he'd say on TV, and because he's always so jolly.
3. Oprah
4. Koko the Chimpanzee

[Alligator]

Since it's four, John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

[JoeHiker]

Miss October 1982
Miss October 1984
Miss July 1992
Miss April 2003

[wacocelt]

Wolfhound (My currently to be ex-father in law to be and one of the finest examples of human kind I've ever met)
Ox 2,000 British SoBo, Lucky 2,005 Irish NoBo (These two guys are some of the funniest and down to Earth people I've ever met)
I'll leave the last place open to any of the select few people from Whiteblaze that I've met and come to know and respect over the past few years. Hopefully I'll get the oppourtunity to spend some quality time with all of you folks eventually. Be well.

Puck

[Mags]

1) My late grandfather.
Knew him more as "Pop". A kind, warm hearted man who loved to garden.Did not get to know him as Domenic too well. Would have loved to pick his brain about his WW2 service, growing up as a first generation American and many other subjects that made him who he was. I regretfully did not ask these questions when I was an adult (and when he would have been ready to answer the questions).

2) Meriwether Lewis.
Must admit to have been enraptured with the whole L&C expedition lately. As I plan my own trip on the divide, a person who was 32 years old in 1806 (do the math) seems to resonate with me. Wrote almost poetically about the places he had seen. Wotta journey!

3) My buddy Tim
We went to Catholic school together. We grew up in the same area of RI. We worked in the same hospital during our college years. I did my first backpacking trip with him. He hiked the last week of the AT with me (when he had a great girlfriend), the last week of the PCT with me (when he has a great wife) and is planning to do the last week of the CDT with me (has a beautiful little girl who will be turn one years old just before I finish). I have great friends in Boulder...but when you have that kind of deep background with someone, the conversations go where I don't take them with other people. No "epic' trip finish" is complete without this buddy of mine being there.

4) Rotating guest spot.

[Mags]

not really

very few middle eastern looking folks walking on the AT...

most folks walking the AT are european looking, the historical jesus would not be euro looking...

I am of European descent myself..and well, draw your own conclusions.

http://www.magnanti.com/gallery2/mai...g2_itemId=4591
http://www.magnanti.com/gallery2/mai...g2_itemId=4671

Guess saying "European looking" is a broad brush.

[smokymtnsteve]

I am of European descent myself..and well, draw your own conclusions.

http://www.magnanti.com/gallery2/mai...g2_itemId=4591
http://www.magnanti.com/gallery2/mai...g2_itemId=4671

Guess saying "European looking" is a broad brush.

well yea U iz....U looks leik U may have a jewish bubbie...no wander U liek eating chinese food on dec 25

my 1st wife and mother of my two boys was a wolveritz....grandma wolveritz lived in brooklyn,

so U know what that makes my two sons,,,


me I'm jist a pure ole Mongrel, I got many bloods in me,


I am a mongrel,
i got many bloods in me.
I am a mongrel,
an original Amerikan personality.


my great grandmother was a mulato,,,half cherokee and have African

so according to the law of Alabama U know what that makes me..
BUT I'm Blonde headed with Blue eyes.

why Ima real BLUE EYED SOUL BROTHER!

[Mags]

Yep..we are all "mutts" of some sort.

The whole history of the world is people moving to and fro, settling down, meeting the locals (in friendly and not so friendly ways!) and having children.

Etruscans, Greeks, Romans, North Africans...and who ever else invaded and had wars in my family's old neck of the woods.

[betic4lyf]

mao and gandhi to discuss africa.

i would also have thoreau, malcolm X, along as well. maybe marx to, he's got the beard

[bfitz]

Conan the Barbarian
Jessica Alba
Mila Jovovich
Gandalf

Edit: Replace one of the females with Boudicca warrior queen of the Celts...

[wyclif]

i would also have thoreau, malcolm X, along as well. maybe marx to, he's got the beard

I'd have to ditch Thoreau; too much of a whiner. Just about the only thing he gets points for around here is being a Surveyor. As Bill Bryson says:

The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core...the experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical."

[lobster]

Thoreau must have been a relative of Bryson!!!

[the goat]

I'd have to ditch Thoreau; too much of a whiner. Just about the only thing he gets points for around here is being a Surveyor. As Bill Bryson says:
quote: The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a visit to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the core...the experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical."

bryson's a bigger candy ass than thoreau could've ever hoped to be......while there may be some truth to this assertion of bryson's, i'm quite sure he put it in his book in an attempt to make himself look a little better for not being able to hack it.

[Fiddler]

After much thought here are my four:

Miyamoto Musashi - the greatest swordsman that ever lived. I have always been fascinated with feudal Japan and the world of the Samurai.

Professor Stephen Hawking - Theoretical Physicist. I am not a scientist, but I very much enjoy reading his works, those I can understand. And I will not miss one of his lectures when I know it will be televised.

Carl Sagan - He had a way of explaining things about astronomy and the universe in general (whether fact or theory) that anyone could understand.

Most of all my father who passed in 1975 - So many things not did, so many conversations not had. What would I not give for just a few more hours?

[Scorpion]

Jack
Like your picks, particularly T. E. Lawrence. His book The Seven Pillars of Wisdom is one of my favorites. The first time I read it was when I was in the Middle East, his old stomping grounds. Would loved to have met him.
Scorpion

[wyclif]

Professor Stephen Hawking - Theoretical Physicist.

How would Hawking get up Katahdin? With you pushing him in his wheelchair?

[betic4lyf]

thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience. thats wright, the writing behind the indian revolution, the civil rights movement, among others. I remember reading somewhere that his mother did his laundry, while he was at walden

[Fiddler]

How would Hawking get up Katahdin? With you pushing him in his wheelchair?

This thread was not for the hike or for Katahdin. See post #1. It was for one night in a shelter.

[wyclif]

This thread was not for the hike or for Katahdin. See post #1. It was for one night in a shelter.

Okay! How would you get Hawking into the shelter, push?