We have tentatively named our mountain home "Dalat."

[DemoTex]

Soon it will be our permanent home; as soon as we sell the Dallas house. Dalat. If you have ever been there you know what I mean.

[kentuck]

1. I've heard that it actually snows in Dalat??

Is that true? :)

[DemoTex]

3. Yes, I have heard that too. I believe it.

The main street in Dalat looks like a street in any southern US town. It is lined with beautiful Victorian frame homes. It could be Hill Street in Griffin, Georgia, for example. Dalat is a beautiful mountain resort.

Now, I have seen snow - with my own eyes - near the mountains of the A Shau. Winter '71. Lam Son 719 (know what I mean Vern?). Bad time for all involved. Including DemoTex.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

15. 71 was a cold winter in VN.... I have heard of people who saw

snow there before.
At first, we thought they were deranged.

[SoCalDem]

2. Googled it.. are these guys your gardners???

:evilgrin:

[DemoTex]

4. Air Marshall Ky?

What a Prince! Yeh. He probably took-over Dalat in 1967, with his Saigon coup.

On edit: I think he has a restaurant on Wilson Boulevard in Arlington, Va., now. The "Mortar Round."

[frylock]

5. have you seen or heard from that big cat you mentioned a while back?

[DemoTex]

6. I have not, however ...

A neighbor spotted a panther ("the panther") on a hike a few days ago. They were on a tough hike between here and Lake Jocasee, in the NC wilderness park (Gorges). The Gorges rangers confirmed to me, a couple of months back, that there are a very few panthers in our neighborhood.

[YNGW]

7. You people in Transylvania Co. are weird.

We have affectionally named our mountain house in Mills River, "the house".

[DemoTex]

8. Lets meet at the Mills River Restaurant!

Over Chicken Livers and Iced Tea. What say?

[YNGW]

9. Could be.

There's a pretty good Chinese restaurant in Brevard near the intersection of 280 and 276 where Wal-Mart is located. Or we could meet at Asheville Jet (FBO) and buzz over to Rutherfordton. There's a little Mexican restaurant at the airport there.

[DemoTex]

10. Your Citation or my LearJet? Eh?

Actually, the Chinese restaurant is not at that intersection. The new Chinese Buffet is on the right, just before the Ford dealership as you enter Brevard. Way south of the intersection you cite.

My roofing guy made the copper cook vents for the Chinese restaurant. My roofing guy had a strange laborer on his crew in 2002 ... Eric Rudolph. So much for the crack FBI. Rudolph worked at least 3 months as a roofer in the Mill River-Brevard corridor. My roofer showed me the FBI/ATF reports.

[YNGW]

14. Food

The one I was talking about has been there 2 or 3 years. Maybe they moved.

There's a pretty good BBQ place at that 280/276 intersection if you turn north towards the parkway/cradle of forestry/sliding rock. Been there?

[DemoTex]

19. Yep. The BBQ place is there. Next to the fly-fishing place.

And behind Steve Owen Real Estate. Meet there? When?

[YNGW]

20. Let's look at next week.

First full week after the extended holiday is murder.

[supernova]

11. I worked with the Montagnards

here in NC. They speak very fondly of Dalat.

Have you ever met any of the Montagnards DemoTex? Lovely people. We've treated them shamefully.

[DemoTex]

12. Yes. I knew Montagnards in Vietnam.

I had no idea some had made it to NC. We did, indeed, treat them shamefully.

I guess they do speak fondly of Dalat. It was the Aspen of Vietnam.

Mac

[supernova]

13. Some!?

Huge communities in Greensboro and Charlotte as well as Southern California.

Sidebar: I-40 has come to be known as "The Montagnard Highway" as people go back and forth visiting. :D LOL!

There's usally a Dega Day every year in the spring in Greensboro. Awesome celebration!

[DemoTex]

17. Just like Garland, Texas (or Houston, for that matter)

BIG Vietnamese, Laotian, and Cambodian communities. I am used to shopping in Asian markets. I am used to shopping for fresh durian. My life is 50% Asian now. Love it!

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

16. Shamefully? I am surpirsed that none of them have come

to blow up some of the people behind their betrayl. That they have not speaks volumes to their wonderful nature.

I wonder if any have survived the "re-education" process. Anyone know?

Other than the psychotic ROK's, irrepressible Aussies, and sadistic Huks from the Phillipines, they were our best allies.

And the CIA sold them down the river cause they would not deal with the drug scum.

Horrible.

[DemoTex]

18. Bu$h's CIA.

The Bu$h I CIA operated in SEA as Air America. We all know and love the irony of that. Oh, George! You fool,you! You foolish, foolish fighter pilot, you! Lucky little rich-duck you! (Fuck you).

[supernova]

21. The Bushes wouldn't last minutes

in the jungle, let alone 20 years.

I don't know how they survived.

[DemoTex]

22. They are rats ...

Rats intermingled with cockroaches. That's the Bu$h family.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

23. Hey! That is not fair to rats. Rats are fine creatures with a bad

rap from evil people.