Hang in there... vacation is coming!!

[gsganzer]

Karen is half Cherokee and her family lives on both sides of Oklahoma and Arkansas. They don't get along, they resent her success and all her degrees where most of them never finished high school and they are dirt poor. I doubt we will visit any of them, but I am curious to see the area. Not sure if she is up to it or not, there are a lot of bad memories for her of the Reservation and how they treated her mom when she left there.

Eddie

Pretty similar to my experience. My sister-in-law is 100% Micmac indian (a Canadian tribe). All of her family moved to the reservation in Canada because they give better handouts then the US welfare system. When my brother passed away, the reservation gave each of them a stipend to attend the funeral. The relative that drove them down was given an additional amount to cover his driving. He in-turn made each of the passengers give him an additional percent of their stipend so he could make more money off of them. I have no use for any of them and we avoid them entirely.

The trip to Arkansas sounds nice. It's a beautiful state!

 

[EddieWalker]

We just canceled our plans. Karen has two weeks between jobs and we thought a road trip would be nice, but she feels she needs the time to work on her PhD, so we are going the be responsible and probably not do anything this year.

On a totally different topic, our hides finally made it to the tannery!!!!

Eddie

 

[MossRoad]

We just canceled our plans. Karen has two weeks between jobs and we thought a road trip would be nice, but she feels she needs the time to work on her PhD, so we are going the be responsible and probably not do anything this year.

On a totally different topic, our hides finally made it to the tannery!!!!

Eddie

DOH! Responsibility trumps fun once again! :laughing:

Whatcha tanning? Just curious.

 

[EddieWalker]

The animals we shot in South Africa back in August 2014. It took six months just to get all the permits to export them, then another couple months to get to the US. I just found out today that they are at the tannery, so that's a huge relief.

Eddie

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

We're headed to Corpus Christi for a week. Shellie's dad has a couple of rental properties there and we're staying at a 2 bedroom on the beach. I'll stop for a night at the deer camp in Mason on the way down to fill feeders. Maybe I'll get lucky and shoot a pig. It'd be nice to cook a hind quarter on the beach some night.

I have my surf and inshore rods packed and ready.

Have fun, its hot. Stay close to water. And travel with an ice chest full of drinks. I like Corpus Christi. Sorry but not much help on recent tourist attractions. I have been to the Aquarium, but not lately. I hear the aircraft carrier is nice.

 

[MossRoad]

The animals we shot in South Africa back in August 2014. It took six months just to get all the permits to export them, then another couple months to get to the US. I just found out today that they are at the tannery, so that's a huge relief.

Eddie

I bet that IS a relief to finally get them back to the U.S.

 

[gsganzer]

On a totally different topic, our hides finally made it to the tannery!!!!

Eddie

That's a relief. My taxidermist called me yesterday to get final instructions on a couple of our animals. He'll be doing the tahr similar to this one, but with more moss on the rocks. He thinks he'll have all the Africa game completed by August 21 and the New Zealand game will be shortly after. The checkbook will be taking a hit.