OT: Terrific invitation, Tim! I grew up in Arizona: Nogales, Superior [mining town] and Phoenix. Spent some summers in Michigan fishing for crappie, we called them speckled bass.
I used to walk across Phoenix to the state fairgrounds on 17th Ave from 16th St, way the other side of town then. Now Ph is millions and the cacti are mostly in front of hotels. Made lamps from the cholla skeletons. No one had AC then, and I've never been hot since.
Best fishin I ever did was in Yellowstone river above the falls, caught 20" cuthroats with flies I picked off the trees. Hitchiked there from Ariz, 3,000 mile RT, Mt Rushmore, Zion, Tetons, Snake River, etc.
Northern Cal is beauty country but crowded for my taste; I expect southern Illinois was more bucolic, has nice seasonal changes too. I think southern Utah - N. Ariz [Grand Staircase country] is God Showing Off. To my preference the West is the best. And here I am in Georgia, beautiful & gracious but not the same.
I'm listing fishing with you and Arthur as definitely something I want to do, Tim. Let's see what God permits!
Bless you, both, Gentlemen!
Don
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