tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694015478045115411.post2293123018389442625..comments2023-07-25T03:24:22.042-05:00Comments on Bigger Piece of Sky: Following your dreamsKeithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10258464026110382809noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694015478045115411.post-28420310530423992702010-06-18T08:30:33.356-05:002010-06-18T08:30:33.356-05:00Better start putting dollars in that change jar, a...Better start putting dollars in that change jar, and when you go better take a camera along so the rest of us can live vicariously and start planning our own Alaska trips.A Horse Thiefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08663025786744608760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1694015478045115411.post-87610276590141932182010-06-18T00:52:28.745-05:002010-06-18T00:52:28.745-05:00I wanted to go to Africa to hunt and even had frie...I wanted to go to Africa to hunt and even had friends from gunsmith college there for YEARS before I finally went. Wasn't until I got sick a few times and had to have some surgeries done on me and I reckoned I wasn't getting any younger. <br /><br />Gal analogy is good. As a long passed on friend of mine said to me when I was a couple decades younger about a gal I was keen on but was afraid to ask out: "If you don't ask her, she can't say yes and the odds are she isn't going to ask you."<br /><br />Alaska is beautiful, and well worth the trip. I'm jealous because my dad just got back from working at Eielson and I couldn't afford to figure out how to tag along.<br /><br />People thought I had a mental disorder when I decided going to Africa was a good way to spend vacation time, they all thought I was going to get killed or die of wild animals or disease, and I've done a pretty good job of risking both, but a lot of the people who won't go with on trips like that, you'll find socially later in life saying "God, why didn't I go there, do this, ask her out, etc?" If you go you don't have to wonder why you don't.<br /><br />My two cents, they ought to let that feller hunt OBL. What's the harm? He might find him and if he doesn't, what's the harm? :-)<br /><br />The fringes of the civilized world are exhilarating. Doesn't matter if it's stalking around in bear or lion country or riding in a truck with a 375 and an Uzi on the seat to go to the dance hall in town on a Saturday night in the third world. Everything that's much fun has a certain risk, I reckon.<br /><br />You ought to go.tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14230665595988628546noreply@blogger.com