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Hello- > > I'll be in Chicago's Northshore communities on the west shore of Lake > > Michigan with an uninterrupted eastward view in my T3 FASTback by 4am (5am > > ET). I'm grabbing two friends to go along with me. > > That would certainly be a great place to view from, but the clouds down in > your area didn't look like they were going to cooperate. I hope they did. We'd been watching the forecast and radar maps for hours... it *looked* like it was going to be okay. And it was! There was some moisture hanging in the lower sky, but that also helped to block out the light of Chicago. I'd say that we saw about 100 shooting stars. > Let us know if you managed to see anything from your FASTBACK. ;-) The *plan* was to get there too early, then sit in a warm car (gas heater :-) until we saw the beginning, then get out in the freezing cold and watch. Two things changed the plan: first, we slept in until 3:30 central time. Second, the temperature was quite a bit warmer than we guessed. So, we just got out from the onset, and it was fine. Last time I went to Circle Yer Wagons in Sevierville, TN, I had my Nikon camera, lenses, strobe, etc. all stolen. Unfortunately, this made taking carefully-planned shots of meteors over the T3 impossible :-(. Take care, Shad Laws LN Engineering - Aircooled Precision Performance http://www.LNengineering.com ------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <type3-off@vwtype3.org> For more help, see http://vwtype3.org/list/