cguardsman wrote:Branson??? you were about 15 miles from me! I live in Stone Co. which is the county Silver Dollar City is in. If anyone is down this way and looking to canoe I live on the James River across from as access point. It is a 5 mile float from my house to town
canoeing.. *sigh*
as for places we would go to see.. the trees. funny because we have virtually no direct sun in our yard due to trees. water. definitely water.
in april was in SF to visit my younger brother. on my birthday (best present ever!) just he and i went up to yosemite. so beautiful. we both took tons of video. we got back home and realized we have in total about 2 hours of video virtually all of water!
i miss being in the evergreen forests in nat'l parks in washington state. when we were kids our family normally camped in national forests and rarely saw other people. the trees were so huge you could barely see the tops. they would sway in the breeze and sound like the ocean. we also camped right on fresh freezing cold mountain streams for our water and it was so good!
the smell was intoxicating even to just a little brat.
our porta=potti was an old army issue folding shovel.
but when we moved to sandusky, ohio, dad got us an old lymon (sp?) power boat and a little rhodes bantam 14' sailboat. that was a good consolation for leaving. wish i had that powerboat now. it was the beautiful wood shiplap construction. what did we know.. it's long gone.
but i would give anything to experience washington. it is so far way. probably isn't the same now anyway since that was about 30000 years ago.
oh no! i'm getting serious!!!
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