-=> Quoting Damon A. Getsman to Nancy Backus on 12-Jun-2015 22:13 <=-   
      
    NB>> Sequoias and redwoods are pretty awesome...  :)  I can't blame him for   
    NB>> wanting to share those with you...  :)   
    DAG> It was great.  ;)  Unfortunately I was working without very much   
    DAG> battery life left in my phone most of the time.  So, while I managed to   
    DAG> get some decent photos from parts of the trip, when we went out on the   
    DAG> absolutely breathtaking hike from the top of one of the ridges down to   
    DAG> the bottom of the gorge where the ocean was meeting the forest, the   
    DAG> phone lied to me and told me that it was taking and saving the   
    DAG> pictures, while the whole time it was losing the very best ones.  :(  I   
    DAG> think that I should be able to get some of those pictures back from   
    DAG> some other members of our trip, though.    
      
   Hopefully..  :)   It seems, in any case, that perhaps another visit to   
   the region might be called for, when things are more settled... and then   
   you can make sure the phone's battery is fully charged... or bring a   
   real camera...  ;)   
      
    NB>> Pluses and minuses to camping... and too much at a time can definitely   
    NB>> be a put-off for more...  ;)  Plus you have other things on your plate   
    NB>> now that have more than minor benefit to them...  ;)   How long is this   
    NB>> camping trip to be...?   
    DAG> Well the last one was a Friday night to a Monday.  My son got to   
    DAG> miss a full day of school out of the last week of school that he had,   
    DAG> so he was pretty pumped about that.    
      
   He's at the right age for that... ;)     
      
    DAG> As for right now there are no more planned for the immediate future,   
    DAG> which is good.  Parts of the voyages that we had been going on were   
    DAG> starting to be a little bit more like tasks than like vacation.   
      
   Almost more trouble than they were worth...  ;)   
      
    DAG> Plus I think what I really need more of right now is some time to cement   
    DAG> the good habits and routines in place, not escaping it and taking a   
    DAG> monetary hit when I really need to be saving up a nest egg right now.    
      
   Sounds wise to me.   :)   Find things closer to home and less expensive   
   for now, when you do need to take a break from the routine...  :)  But   
   putting most of the effort into establishing the routines and good   
   habits...  :)   
      
    NB>> The minor hassles of life... ;)  Guess you need to pack a waterproof   
    NB>> surface to roll out onto the picnic table to protect the cards... ;)   
    DAG> Yeah.  Lots of my camping gear disappeared during those last rough   
    DAG> relocations when I was in North Dakota still.  I'm still missing some   
    DAG> stuff because of that; when we start getting into a ready-to-camp mode   
    DAG> again I'll hopefully have the resources available to start restocking   
    DAG> these supplies, though.    
      
   Some things you might be able to pick up along the way, should you see   
   them available at a good deal...  :)   
      
    DAG> Plus, with my normal doom-n-gloom outlook on society and the way that   
    DAG> our government is taking things, I like having survival gear around   
    DAG> just in case things start looking like some sort of a trip out to a   
    DAG> nondisclosed location in the hills might be a good idea.  :)  Call me   
    DAG> paranoid, but we live in a crazy friggin' world, even if we _are_   
    DAG> mostly isolated from large chunks of that in this country.    
      
   Yeah, you're probably paranoid..  ;)  I wouldn't be surprised if your   
   upbringing hadn't made that so ingrained for you, though...  I wouldn't   
   say flat out that it couldn't happen... there's always the possibility,   
   I just tend to be more optimistic that things will work themselves out..   
   and I know Who really is in control of the mess, and will work things as   
   they should ultimately be...  :)      
      
    NB> Nice effort...  I note that there are two more from you here in DADS...   
    NB> but I'm off to do stuff myself now... those will have to wait...  :)   
    NB> We'll get caught up soon enough...  ;)   
      
    DAG> Yeah I've been really slammed with different things lately, so I'm   
    DAG> trying to get to a few more messages that I know I've got piled up in   
    DAG> different echoes, too.  So no worries about it taking awhile, because   
    DAG> things are definitely going to be taking awhile from my end, too.    
    DAG> Especially when I've got the kind of distraction brewing next to me   
    DAG> that is going on right now.     
      
   I suspect I don't want to know what sort of distraction...    
      
    DAG> God it's going to be nice once there's been enough cash saved up to   
    DAG> pick up a place that gives me a little respite from the distraction   
    DAG> when I need it.  *tries to go to the happy place*  Oh yeah, I didn't   
    DAG> have a chance to meditate today, either.  No doubt that's causing me   
    DAG> to be a couple of steps behind where I could be with this all right now.   
    DAG> Anyway that's it for now.  I'm gonna try to get some work done now.   
      
   Hopefully you succeeded...  :)   More later... from whichever echos...  ;)   
      
   ttyl         neb   
      
      
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