Re: Wyoming Trip Report (May-Jun 2025)

On 7/8/2025 10:30 AM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 15:07:38 -0500,
   sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

  On 7/4/2025 7:58 AM, Ted Heise wrote:

On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 15:31:09 -0500,
    sticks <wolverine01@charter.net> wrote:

>

   You'd think you planned this trip with fishing in my
   looking at where you always ended up.  ;-)

>
LOL no For whatever reason, it just doesn't interest me that
much.  Though I do like seeing the water.

>
  I used to fish a lot more than I do now.  Just always seems
  like there is something else I should do.  Doesn't help that
  the wife doesn't fish, but she at least used to go sit along
  the shore and read.  We haven't done that in two years for some
  reason.  I also do love to eat fish while camping.  Stayed up
  at Lake Koshkenong in Wisconsin and we'd get lots of catfish,
  walleye, and largemouth.  I really do enjoy fried catfish, some
  fried potatoes, and beans.

 Oh don't get me wrong, I love me some fish--great eating!  I just
don't care to take the trouble to coax them out of the water.

It's always better if you actually catch something, too.
I got a feeling with that until I get the knee worked on I'll be doing a little more fishing in the future.  I don't know how that works out with the wife wanting to hike, and I'm not keen on her going off in the wilderness by herself.  Probably get a new knee late this fall and try to be back in the game by next year.

week to move back to Nebraska (we lived there until 1997 when
we moved to Indiana for my career).  Now that I'm retired,
we're going home.  As a plus, it'll be a shorter drive to the
Rockies and the Southwest.  :)

>
  Wow, that's big.  Congratulations.  Indiana is not a bad place
  to live, but Nebraska is better, and cuts off a whole day
  getting west.  That is one of the big problems with where we
  live in Illinois.  Takes at least two days, usually 3, to get
  to where we want to be.

 Thanks!  And for me, it cuts off two days, given my 60 mph upper
towing limit and slightly greater distance.
 We're excited about getting back there.  One gripe: until we get
the cars licensed there we would have to pay out of state fees for
a state parks pass.  So that's one to do item that'll have to
wait.

I just bought two passes for Wisconsin.  One for the pickup and one for the RV.  $38 for the first and $20 for the second.  Like fishing licenses, I don't mind paying for these as the money goes to good things.  If I use them fine, if not, no biggie.

        ...I got throwed out of a bar there one night.

>
Okay, that's more we have in common.  Though my bad old days
of alcoholic drinking are behind me, thankfully.

>
  Mine pretty much are, too.  Not by my choice, but my wife just
  goes crazy.  I'm starting to resent that and am probably going
  to take that power away from her.  Not that I want to drink all
  the time, but if I want one I don't want to fight a war over
  it.

 Yeah, I can see how that would suck.  I still think a cold beer on
a hot day is one of the best things ever.  Only problem is that
for me it would never be just one.  The old AA saying has it
right, "One is too many, and a thousand is never enough."

Out in Utah that feeling of resentment bothered me.  After several miles and the knee starting to swell up and become painful walking, it seemed all I could think of was how good it would be to finish up, get back and be able to sit and have about 2 beers and feel the pain lessen.  That's when I decided I was going to take back my rights to choose how I live. I totally understand I am a person who likes it perhaps more than "normal" people, but things have certainly changed.  I simply have no desire to party like I used to.  I actually prefer to drink by myself, to be honest.  2-3 beers is just about right.  20 years ago, that was not the case.
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Darwinism Is Junk Science!!