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Advantages: Great story, Cajuns Disadvantages: Not one to watch over and over
Southern Comfort is not just the name of the most effeminate of whiskeys (for true men like their?s burning and horrible tasting) it?s also a 1981 film by Walter Hill director of The Warriors.
The film follows a small squad of Louisiana National Guard on a training exercise through the Louisiana swamp lands - the bayou. It?s a friendly crew of men all casual about their duty and not taking the exercise completely seriously. The cool guy of the team, Spencer (played by Keith Carradine), has arranged for some prostitutes to meet them at the end of the trail so they?re all keen to get it over with.
Things progress pretty normally until their commander, Poole, seems to have got them lost. They?re at the edge of deep lake/river/big water thing with no way across. Luckily, they spot some boats beside a poachers den. The allure of some ...
Advantages: Good prices for renting equipment, friendly staff, not too busy Disadvantages: Snowboarders don't always take beginners into consideraton
A Few Facts
Big Bear Mountain is situated in the San Bernardino Mountains in SouthernCalifornia and is an approximate two hours drive from Los Angeles.
Big Bear Mountain sits 8805 feet above sea level and averages 100 inches of snowfall per year.
It currently holds twelve mountain lifts:
2 High-speed quad chairs
1 quad chair
2 Triple chairs
4 Double chairs
3 Moving carpet lifts
I visited Big Bear mountain on a school trip during February 2007. We stayed in a local hotel, The Northwoods Resort which was approximatley a ten minute drive from the mountain.
Big Bear Mountain has a fairly large car park, but please note that during the heavy snowfall months, parking may be difficult.
Bear Mountain offer rentals for all your skiing/snowboarding needs, which can be brought as a complete package (ie, skis/board and boots ...
Advantages: A relaxing place for a few days break Disadvantages: It's much too far away from London
In February I visited Monterey, a beautiful town on the central coast of California about 110 miles south of San Francisco which has become a popular tourist resort.
Why Monterey?
This town is 2-3 hours by road from San Francisco, less from the airport or from San Jose and Silicon Valley, and I think about 6 or 7 hours drive from Los Angeles. Because of its location and attractiveness, it has become a popular choice for conventions, and an event was organised there for readers and writers of mystery and crime fiction called Left Coast Crime over a long weekend in February. Hundreds of us descended on the town for a few days. Mikey and I arrived on Tuesday.
Because of the convention (held at the Doubletree Hotel 5 minutes walk from the centre of town from Thursday afternoon to Sunday lunchtime), spending time with a large gang ...
