Comments on: Sweet Home Alabama http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/05/23/sweet-home-alabama/ A World to Explore Thu, 23 May 2013 20:20:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Mark Wilson http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/05/23/sweet-home-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-4584 Mark Wilson Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:35:25 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=1653#comment-4584 Hello Marcie: It actually all worked out quite well as I look back at the trip that just ended. We saw no mosquitoes, only one tick wandering across a hat brim, and the chigger attack apparently affected only me. (I learned quickly not to sit down in the grass to eat lunch.) We avoided poison ivy successfully, and did not encounter a single snake or even snapping turtle despite plenty of creek-time. We very much enjoyed the Alabama and Mississippi geology, culture, history and food!

]]> By: marciepooh http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/2010/05/23/sweet-home-alabama/comment-page-1/#comment-4555 marciepooh Wed, 26 May 2010 18:54:50 +0000 http://woostergeologists.scotblogs.wooster.edu/?p=1653#comment-4555 I am impressed and horrified at the fact y’all are wearing shorts and tank tops in the field. Kudzu and other “luxuriant vegetation” may impede geologists at work but sun burn, poison ivy, mosquitoes, ticks and chiggers will all go home with you, or at least the bites/rash will. (I hope you didn’t put those socks in with clean clothes.)

I hope you’ll return to Alabama for more field trips, we do have some lovely geology – just try and show up between hunting season and tick/kudzu seasons.

marciepooh (semi-native of Tuscaloosa)

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