The best thing was watching the bears and whales and eagles as we traveled and seeing a part of the country that I had never seen before. Anyway, I thought I would share a short video with you that I made from the back seat. Hope you enjoy.
Sunday, May 9, 2010
Getting Old
Spent about three hours last week in the back of a 1979 Cessna 185. It was a nice ride with a good pilot, but my body is just not made for the back seat of a small plane anymore. When I was a young man I could do things that were outside of the "routine" or even down-right abusive, and recoup in an hour or two.
Now I find when I do something outside "routine" it may take me days or even weeks to recover. I guess it is like my Dad used to say, "There's just something about that ol' routine." Anyway, taking this plane saved us (I was traveling with a collegue) over a day of travel, so we left on Thursday around noon and were back home for Friday night and the weekend. Otherwise, we would have to have left on Wednesday morning at 0dark:30 and getting home by Friday night would have been iffy.
The best thing was watching the bears and whales and eagles as we traveled and seeing a part of the country that I had never seen before. Anyway, I thought I would share a short video with you that I made from the back seat. Hope you enjoy.
The best thing was watching the bears and whales and eagles as we traveled and seeing a part of the country that I had never seen before. Anyway, I thought I would share a short video with you that I made from the back seat. Hope you enjoy.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
Long Time
One of the things I have taken to looking at lately has been my "bucket list". As a young college student in Alabama we were asked to write down those things we wished to accomplish before we "kicked the bucket" and like the movie, this list was worked on, written down to complete the assignment, and then quickly forgotten, until; well, until the movie came out and I started looking at my life.
Two things I have been able to get off my list, and the third is in the making as we speak. I always wanted to go North of the Arctic Circle, and in March I got to visit Kotzebue, Alaska, which is 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I have a whole new appreciation for the caliber of people it takes to survive in the Arctic.
A second thing was to learn to tie my own fishing flies, and I knocked that one off the list this last week by taking a class at a local sports shop. I ties two Iliamna Pinkeys, two Egg-sucking leaches and two flesh flies.
A third thing was to fish in Alaska, and I have a trip planned for the end of July during my school break to do just that. So by and large, I am doing just fine with my bucket list.
And I have a lot of time left to get the rest of it done!
Two things I have been able to get off my list, and the third is in the making as we speak. I always wanted to go North of the Arctic Circle, and in March I got to visit Kotzebue, Alaska, which is 33 miles north of the Arctic Circle. I have a whole new appreciation for the caliber of people it takes to survive in the Arctic.
A second thing was to learn to tie my own fishing flies, and I knocked that one off the list this last week by taking a class at a local sports shop. I ties two Iliamna Pinkeys, two Egg-sucking leaches and two flesh flies.
A third thing was to fish in Alaska, and I have a trip planned for the end of July during my school break to do just that. So by and large, I am doing just fine with my bucket list.
And I have a lot of time left to get the rest of it done!
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