Subject: Trip report # 1 for the James/ Carlson family
From: "David Carlson" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 09:38:18 -0700

Hello Everyone. 

You are receiving this e-mail because we have added you to our e-mail distribution list for James/ Carlson family 'round the world' trip updates. Most of you have asked to be put on. We have added others because you know us from Work/ Guides/ family/ friends etc, and we thought you would be interested. Please see below for instructions if you wish to be removed from the list.  

Actually, this is more of a test of our e-mail system. We have set up a list server so that we can send one e-mail, and it will get distributed to everyone on the list. We aim to write an e-mail every few weeks. There is no need to reply to these e-mails, although we welcome you all to write to us. If you do reply, please do not include the picture or text from the e-mail we sent to you - we may be on very slow dialups so we do not want to have to download stuff we've already sent.

For those of you not familiar with list servers, you can remove yourself at any time by writing to [email-masked] and have 'unsubscribe trip' in the body (not the title) of the e-mail. You will get an automatic response within a few minutes confirming your removal. If we are sending it to the wrong address, then you can cancel one address and add another ('subscribe trip'). If all else fails, e-mail us the details and we will take care of it. 

We are currently in Vancouver after spending a hot, but fun filled, summer at the cottage in Ontario. We leave tomorrow for Tokyo. 

Here are our tentative plans.
Japan - Aug 16 to Sep 1
China - Sep 1 to Sep 30
Singapore / Kuala Lumpur/ Sumatra - 1 Oct to 15 Nov
New Zealand 1 Nov to 15 Dec
Australia 15 Dec to 15 Feb
Bali  15 Feb to 1 Mar
Thailand 1 Mar to 31 Mar (perhaps side trip to Vietnam)
India 31 Mar to 30 April (perhaps side trip to Nepal)
London / France & perhaps African Safari (30 April & later)

Feel free to write to any of us. We all have different addresses... while we receive them on the same computer, the emails will go into different mail boxes for each of us. However we will likely all read each other's e-mail, so don't send the same thing to each of us (thanks!). 

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We'll try and have one picture on every e-mail. There will usually be more on the web site at http://canadiancarlsons.com . This one is of the kids (Mark, Heather and Chloe) at Jones Falls a few weeks ago - a short boat trip from the cottage in Ontario.

TTFN (ta ta for now)

David