a vote
for city hotels....
in resorts, anyway
would have to include the halekulani in honolulu.
Shame on you flick.... I read this AFTER I wrote the post on the whales, and I had to laugh.....
In a way I am getting to the point where my favorite trailer park (the traveling kind, not the O.J. Clinton girlfriend type), is ..... er.... the Four Seasons Hotel type.... he, he, he,....
I have never really been fond of camping and "roughing it" but I must admit that I have had some of the best experiences while doing the camping thing.
I remember one time (about 8 years ago, or so), I went in a fishing trip for trout, in Montana (actually in the border between Idaho and Montana), I went with these 5 real cowboys, dogs, pack mules, rifles, fishing gear, the lot. We traveled hauling the horses for about 45 minutes in a dirt logging road up the mountains, and then FIVE hours on a horseback through the most stunning countryside, the views were out of this world.
As we approached our destination, (a series of mountain lakes), we had to pass through a narrow path, with the mountain on one side and then a sheer cliff several feet waaaaaaay down..... we had to go real gentle and slow.
So finally we made it I spent five days fly fishing in this mountain lake, sometimes until 11:00 PM at night almost in darkness, see that is the time (or real early in the AM), to fish, no trouble catching them.
I am from the school "I catch enough to eat", like about three or four, five if I am hungry, particularly when you are outdors, (as if there is any other form of fishing), and then after that I keep on fishing, but it is catch and release.....
The thrill of sending the line in wide arches and catch a fish as the fly is about to fall in the water, (actually the fish jumps for it), can not compare to anything. I was spoiled by that experience, as I have tried fly fishing in rivers and lower lakes, and quite frankly while it is fun, it has never had the magic of this one trip.
It was quite a trip, and to watch these Montana cowboys do their thing with the horse and the fishing was quite extraordinary. We also collected a bit of huckleberries which it is a purple berry smaller than a blueberry, (and not as juicy). However, one must be careful in doing this as you do not want to encounter a grizzly bear, as you could be "history" in no time.
The closest time I have been to a grizzly bear (Not that I want to be close to one), was on a different fishing and photo taking trip to the Mission mountains (in Montana as well), as we were walking up the trail, we spotted a fresh Caca pile.....(we assume to be bear's), at which point we decided to take a different trail, on the way to Lake MacDonald..... Actually, our destination was only to the one side of the mountain, the bearless side (supposedly), before Lake MacDonald, as such lake is supposed to be feeding grounds for Grizzlies.
Again the scenery is incredible.
Today, it would be more difficult for me to go on a "camping" expedition, I rather go to a golf resort or the like....
Unless of course the motivation for searching for something unique would be there..... but I doubt it, the Four Season Trailer Park sounds better.
As for URL's.... Well I do not have any as at that time, I was invited by someone locally over there, and this person knew these cowboys, I doubt that today these guys would have a web page, however I am certain that there must be some outfitters that will take you fishing.
Another fishing experience was (when I was about 14 years old in)Canada, in a lake called Magnatawan, about 250 miles north of Toronto fishing for pike. I found pike to be quite an aggressive fish, (and a thrill to catch, I was using the trusty worm. I know to the real fishermen this is capital sin, but hey who cares, I caught my alotment of pike.
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