[Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting needles and flying

Sat Feb 18 17:43:24 UTC 2012

Thank you so much for the info.  I sure hope I can find it.  If I 
do I will tell her to expect you soon.  smile.

Carol

 ----- Original Message -----
From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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Date sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 11:51:53 -0500
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and flying

It is on the same street as the Milano Hotel.  It is on Fortaleza 
St.in Old
San Juan.  http://www.hotelmilanopr.com/

If you are leaving the hotel, going out the front door:
Turn LEFT.  It is on the opposite side of the street from the 
hotel.  Go
about 1 block down Fortaleza Street, and on  your right as you 
walk down the
street.  I do not remember the name of it but you will smell the 
incense from
the street.  The window is full of eastern type of things.  The 
store is
crammed packed with clothing, and to the right as you enter is a 
very large
display of incense - the best I have ever found anywhere.  There 
is wonderful
soaps in scents that are like the incense, and lovely incense 
burners.  To
the left there is clothing - racks of lovely colorful skirts 
($10.  EACH) iI
buy several every year and lovely tops to match the skirts.  They 
have great
PR Tshirts, too - very very heavy cotton, not cheap ones that get 
nasty
after washing.  These ones, I can wear for years, they are made 
so well.  The
lady who owns the shopis OLD and appears to be CRANKY.  But, if 
she warms to
you, she is very generous and lovely.  If you go there, remind 
her of the
lady who comes in every year with her white cane - she gives me 
GIFTS every
year and she hugs me.  I will be there the end of March, for 2 
weeks so I
will be going to see her.  I will see if Bob has the receipts 
from the store
from last year, and if so, I will get you the name of it.  The 
things in her
store are of very good quality - not the touristy junk that many 
of the
other stores have.  The lady lives only a block away from her 
store, in
another building on the same street.

Lynda
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carol Osmar" <osmarc at sbcglobal.net
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Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
flying

 Linda, Do you remember the name of the store you like to shop at 
in PR?

 Carol

 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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 Date sent: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 09:55:39 -0500
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying

 well, I do have a large tote bag that I take along in my carry 
on bag - so
 I
 can fill it up and bring lots of PR coffee home with me! Want to 
try
 fitting
 into that tote?

 I used to buy a lot of my gemstones there in OSJ, but the store 
is no
 longer
 there.  I bought wonderful things I never could find anywhere 
else - I was
 so
 sad last year when I arrived and my store was gone.  There is 
one other
 store
 that is my favorite there - I buy lots of incense, skirts, and 
tops there
 at
 the store I like so much.  I love the colors of PR and my house 
is painted
 in
 those colors inside and outside.  Lots of COLOR -
 Lynda
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Ramona Walhof" <ramona.walhof at gmail.com
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists" 
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 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 10:33 PM
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying

 Lynda, do you have space in your bag for an extra person?

 Ramona
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 From: "River Woman" <riverwoman at zoominternet.net
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 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:38 PM
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying

 What are you reaching out for in PR?
 I am there every year in March or April.  No summers in PR for 
me!  We
 love PR.  I used to teach a course at the college on Puerto 
Rican
 culture - it is a very special place.  Very very wonderful 
people, great
 art galleries and museums, and architecture that is spectacular.  
and, the
 food - delicious! I took students there every year, and now that 
I am
 retired my husband and I go every year.  this year we will take 
my sister
 and her husband along.  We love taking people there and showing 
them the
 special places all over the island.  Yes, I will be knitting on 
the way
 there, knitting when I am sitting in the town squares, and 
knitting on
 the way home! I always knit something really nice to wear when I 
leave
 for the journey to PR.

 Lynda
 ----- Original Message -----
 From: "Heather Kirkwood" <hkdawn at yahoo.com
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 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying

 Have a good time in Puerto Rico! I've been lucky to be able to 
go on an
 outreach trip there for the past two summers.  Leave it to me to 
go to
 Puerto Rico in August! But, I loved it!

 Heather Kirkwood
 Director of Outreach, Vice President
 Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network
 One South Road
 Oyster Bay, NY 11771
 1 (800) 789-9HPS
 www.hpsnetwork.org

 Personal blog: www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com

 Search the Web at www.goodsearch.com and choose the HPS Network 
as your
 charity!

 HPS New York Conference - March 16-18, 2012

 --- On Fri, 2/17/12, River Woman <riverwoman at zoominternet.net> 
wrote:

 From: River Woman <riverwoman at zoominternet.net
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
 <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
 Date: Friday, February 17, 2012, 2:24 PM

 No idea.  I just know I lost my needles if Frankfurt because 
theyw ere
 straight ones.  Sooooo, I never intend to lose them again.  and, 
flying as
 a blind person is not a very nice thing to do anyway if you are 
alone -
 they can be so nasty to you that you think you are a criminal - 
and you
 are treated as one, too.  So I take no chances on anything that 
even
 remotely might cause me a problem any more.  I'll be leaving for 
puerto
 rico shortly with my circular needles.  No problems!

 Lynda
 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Kirkwood" 
<hkdawn at yahoo.com
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 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 2:34 PM
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying

 Okay, dumb question - why are the circular ones okay but the 
other ones
 aren't? I'm using circular ones anyway, but geesh, if you really 
wanted
 to do something rotten, I'd think it could be accompished either 
way.
 Hmmmm..grin!

 Heather Kirkwood
 Director of Outreach, Vice President
 Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network
 One South Road
 Oyster Bay, NY 11771
 1 (800) 789-9HPS
 www.hpsnetwork.org

 Personal blog: www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com

 Search the Web at www.goodsearch.com and choose the HPS Network 
as your
 charity!

 HPS New York Conference - March 16-18, 2012

 --- On Fri, 2/17/12, River Woman <riverwoman at zoominternet.net> 
wrote:

 From: River Woman <riverwoman at zoominternet.net
 Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting 
needles and
 flying
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
 <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
 Date: Friday, February 17, 2012, 1:16 PM

 Take ONLY circular needles to be sure they don't get taken away 
from you!
 And, I take a letter opener instead of scissor to be sure I 
don't lose my
 scissor, too.
 I knit everywhere I travel - the only place I had any trouble 
with
 knitting needles was in Frankfort, GR.  but I do not take any 
chances - I
 use circulars because I know there will be no problems.  Lynda
 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Heather Kirkwood" 
<hkdawn at yahoo.com
 To: "List for blind crafters and artists"
 <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
 Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 1:57 PM
 Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Question about knitting needles 
and flying

 I've taken up knitting just in the last month (as mentioned in 
the last
 post.) I'm about to leave again for another month on the road.  
I'll be
 spending a lot of time in airplanes and airports and want to 
take my
 knitting with me.  Will TSA give me any hassle about the 
needles?

 Heather Kirkwood
 Director of Outreach, Vice President
 Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Network
 One South Road
 Oyster Bay, NY 11771
 1 (800) 789-9HPS
 www.hpsnetwork.org

 Personal blog: www.heatherkirkwood.blogspot.com

 Search the Web at www.goodsearch.com and choose the HPS Network 
as your
 charity!

 HPS New York Conference - March 16-18, 2012
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