TomTom, The reason that some of us pick on the Brits so hard is, that if you have been there. You get all this upitiy attatude. Like, "You Americans, you have to have big gass guzzlers, gas would be cheeper if you drove cars like us." Yeah this dufus really said that to me when I was in the midlands. Now 99% of the Brits are really cool people, but remember they shipped out radicals for over 400 years. So the ones that are left, well, the genes have been picked over for a while. Now, I'd love to move to Scotland. So I don't hate them all that much. Also a long drive for my UK friends is about 15 miles. Over that they want to stay overnight. (no kidding) I used to tell them that driving from San Francisco is like driving from London to Moscow. However I lied, That drive would only get you to Chicago. You are a 1000 miles short of NY. Folks in Europe just don't relize how big the US of A is. I live near San Francico, and I can take you places, within a 100 miles, where you will be 20 miles from a road. You either hike, fly, or ride a horse to get around. BTW you might want a rifle or a handgun there. Cougers get about one jogger a year. Last year a friend of mine had a deer in his front yard. The poor thing freaked out as everyone tried to catch it. (he lives about 15 miles from the woods) I'm not saying he should have shot it, but suppose that it was a couger and you hade a youngster in your yard. Sound unlikly, yes probably is, however, hunting is becomming less popular, so the food supply is less and less for more and more critters. ( I do rember my father shooting a bear on our back portch, back in about 1952. The bear wanted the garbage.) OH, well, that's my .02 worth. Happy Friday.