“You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named "Bush", "Dick", and "Colin." Need I say more?” - Chris Rock
If the freedom of speech is taken away
then dumb and silent we may be led,
like sheep to the slaughter.
George Washington (1732-1799) First President of the USA.
Well, we can set up a block of time for a DP get together up at the cabin when the fishing is best - last week of July / first week of August 2018. I usually take that time off for visitors every year anyway.
I have two spare rooms here in my house and between my 3 vehicles I can transport 19 people at once. There's also a pretty nice hotel about 5 miles from my house in Wasilla. Of course, I'll provide the river transportation to and from the cabin in my boat.
Really, all anyone needs to bring are your clothes. I have enough fishing gear to supply a lot of people and there's always the option to rent a car and take off solo touring Alaska after the get together.
So, if a bunch of DP people want to come up, I'm game. It'd be a blast!
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I have a very good friend that I keep in pretty close touch with that I worked with at Reno Harley Davidson. He's born and raised Alaskan and has moved back to Anchorage since our time in Reno. Part of the reason I bought the big Chevy was a plan to pull a comfortable sized 5th wheel trailer up to Alaska. Doesn't sound like I could get the trailer to a remote cabin though.
Get up there - sell it for a place to secure your bit of heaven
I've got a pretty nice place here in WI. Got it for cheap and have done a lot of renovation on the place, especially the large, two story, 3 bay shop. It'd be really hard to walk away from this place now.
okay - I thought when you said you got it to pull the 5th wheel you were gonna move.
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Yeah. I pointed out Sarah's house to Jim while he was here. We run across them occasionally at one of the grocery stores.
My stepdaughter (1st marriage) went to school with Bristol for most of her K-12 days.
They're a normal family and good people, despite what the media did to them. Todd is a great guy, a very hard worker and rides a snowmachine like a madman... he's very talented. Takes a big pair to win the Iron Dog.
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We can't, but Tina Fey allegedly is able to!
The swarm of locusts that descended upon Wasilla in 2008 is long gone... that was a friggin zoo. The scumbags were actually staking out schools, trying to get students to dish dirt on Bristol, my stepdaughter was among those approached and asked leading questions. It was despicable and we all instructed our children not to talk to the strange adults asking weird questions about their classmates.
Then I read about how there were Book Burnings at our local library when Sarah was Mayor, and a host of other completely made up bullshit that was nothing but smears. I still get a bit angry when I remember all of the lies I read and I got a first hand view of the liberal machine that even now is working against Trump.
Anyway, yeah... the Iron Dog is one hell of a race. It starts outside of Wasilla in Big Lake, then to Nome, then to Fairbanks. I have a friend that has run it a few times, and a 60 year old co-worker that broke his leg last fall training to run it again. You have to be in incredible shape and be a little crazy to ride 80+mph cross country like that. I've wiped out at 105 mph before on my sled, and I haven't gone that fast since then - that hurt. Bad.
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