>>>You still coming out to waste time on my boat?<<<
I don't want to say no I'm not, because I like you inviting me. I like having it there. And I thought, as time passed, you might forget, or be killed. That would take care of that. I would regret that, of course, but I am also a person who tries to look at the practical side of everything.
Saying I'm flattered you have invited me (eight times?) doesn't quite cut it. I think it's great. It would be terrific. I can say that I am a major sucker for interesting times with interesting people. The double-reporting to Rambi alone could exceed CableVision sales. Or Coors.
I'm curious about Ish, and "where" you are, the place you live, the geography and culture and history and acumen, the stuff you know, the stuff you don't. I'm also easy to get along with. It would be willow-easy. There's also a load of stuff I'm interested in in Illinois, although I don't know where it all is, and I wouldn't worry much about combining those destinations. Just doing nothing but trouble sounds fine.
Because MJ has eight weeks off in the summer, when I go somewhere in the summer, I usually go with her. I do travel without her though. Often to the houses of friends, because she is not as socially comfortable as I. Not even. So yes, I travel alone; and we like it both of these ways.
She just lets me go wherever I want with whomever I want. Encourages it. [Bill invited me on a Hawaii trip last Fall; two to three weeks, and not cheap; and she wanted me to go. "I think it would be good for you." I hadn't even considered accepting the invitation.] [I spent a week in Nevada with a woman friend, yakking and pruning her garden. MJ would rather I go alone, because the woman is "my" friend. Said woman is expecting me back, and I promised to be back, and will probly go alone.]
I don't like to pass up good invitations. It's a bad policy, because they don't come around often; and one simply misses out on their own life. It doesn't get replaced.
You, and everyone else, should think about coming out here sometime. To Oregon. I'm not ready this year, but I have been, in the past. At this time (season), it's kind of special. Pressed forward to the glass, actually. But we don't even have an extra room, right now.
And if there was a Rambi Meet? MJ would let me go in heart beat. Fall? Somewhere warm? Could you come there? I take her away at Cmas break, to a "sunny haven". Any time between September and then would be make-able for me. Warm and sunny, is all I require. Flights into Phoenix, Las Vegas, Dallas, a-ok with me. There are many places around there. I used to know the nicest place on earth, near one of those. [I knew it was the nicest place on earth, because the plaque was there.]
There's a famous 50's Retro Trailer Motel in Bisbee. Bisbee is cool, too. Right next to Tombstone. There's some fine stuff in Arizona. And sunny and warm.
Zion, Utah. Kix effing butt. Perhaps the most scenic and impressive place on earth.
Valley of Fire, Nevada. Geologic Wonder. Hot Springs. Great Food, scenery, strippers, fountains.
Sedona.
Alamagordo.
[I have no idea what's in Alamagordo, I just thought it was coming next.]
I bet Rambi knows sunny and warm places in Oct/Nov in Texas.
Louisiana? [I've never been East of Denver.]
The desert in S Cal is nice. Pretty cheap, too.
Cuba. Cuba is nice. Drag Precious down to Galveston, and we'll.....
Where do you like?
This is the first year, of three, that I have been, essentially, able to walk. There is a lot to do, to keep even half of my principality under tow. I don't think I can get out of here this summer, on anything but strict business. I need to spend the meat of the summer attempting construction; finishing of projects here. The weather/time window is very short and absolute, and I have a 30K studio sitting half open. Then the other hip operation probably in Fall. My other house needs paint, way overdue, and garage repairs. I have 1/3 of the deck framed but unfinished.
Can we put together a DAR Fall get-together nut?
My Fall shedule is flexible. JF and LRR? Mel? Probably not. I know Rambi's is. :o) And oh yah, that Coby has no important plans, so we can talk her into anything.
I know it's not the same as Illinois, and the lake. But the weather goes bad here Oct 15. Period. If not before. It has not dried out YET.
It might be do-able. Anyone? Ish?
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