Happy where I'm at but always wishing I was somewhere else. For 36 years I've on the Monroe Elk unit in Utah, 5 miles from the Pahvant unit, 6 miles from the Fish Lake unit, 21 miles from the Beaver unit, 16 miles from the Manti unit, and 45 miles from the Boulder unit. Elk paradise. Yes? But I moved here and struggled to stay here because 36 years ago this area was mule deer heaven. Time has chanced all that in a big way. I like elk, killed a bunch of them, don't care if I ever kill another unless its for meat. Ate a cow tag last fall cause I just couldn't bring myself to remove another cow off the Fish Lake. Never even went out for a look.
Man, I miss those muleys though, if I was 20 years younger I'd have a hard time being happy here for that reason alone. Colorado seems to have mule deer figured out so I would be looking east if I was 45 and going anywhere.
I have 15 months of work left before I turn in my retirement papers. 48 years of 8 to 5 is enough. I moved to Utah in 75 from Brooks, Alberta. Got a bunch of friends and a sister that still remember me there. Bought the 5th wheel RV last summer and the boat last week. July of 2012 we'll be heading back to Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan for the summers. Winters, we have a son that has a taxidermy business in Las Cruses, New Mexico, we'll divide the winters between Las Cruses, here in Glenwood and in Logan, Utah where there's another house full of grandkids.
The winters in New Zealand have started to catch my attention too so that could happen at least once or twice.
We own a small cabin, like Joey's talking about, 2 miles from Fish Lake (35 miles from our home) and we'll spend some fall and early spring days there too.
Figure on slipping up to Alaska a time our two, while we're in northern BC. Got two old buddies from high school that live in Whitehouse, Yukon Territory, one is a retired Mounty, the other one retired after serving as the head of the Yukon Department of Fish and Game. The Mounty now trains shed dogs for entertainment so that could prove to be an interesting visit on the way to Fairbanks. I want to drive the Dempster Highway to Inuvik and fish for char in the Arctic Ocean, at least once. I'd like to float the Yukon River to Dawson and see the Klondike one time as well. Might even dip a pan in a sand bar just to see if I can turn any color, just so's I can say, "I done it".
So, ya, I love it here but they'ers a lot of fantastic places I haven't prowled through yet. So Joey, for me and Mrs. DC, we're going to invest ours in the mobile-cabin and a few thousand gallons of diesel fuel. You better reconsider too, from your posts I can tell you like to get out of town, I don't figure you for one that'll be happy too long without putting some highway behind you pretty regular.
When I get tried of that, I'm going to have to think up something else to entertain myself. Maybe you'll give some new ideas.
Good luck Sage, in where-ever the wind blows that old Stetson you've been looking out from under.
DC
