Summer Plans

August just can't get here fast enough. Life has been busy. Okay what's new it's always busy…maybe too busy. I have been away more then I've been home lately and there is no sign that it's going to let up. I've spent most of the last two weeks in Oklahoma and leave for Washington D.C. again on Monday. All this OT is good for the wallet but is bad for the mental health. Erika, who just finished her second year of med school, will be doing hospital rotaions for the next two years with little to no time off. This means I'm sorta on my own when it comes to vacation this year. So....with mental health in mind I've planned a couple little get-aways.

The first trip is around 10 days of riding dual purpose motorcycles over the jeep trails of Colorado. Colorado, one of my favorite places on earth, is full of roads and trails that are accesible by four wheel drive vehicles and ATV's only. They would ruin a normal street bike thus we are riding street legal dirtbikes. Here is mine.
The plan is to traler the motorcylcles to Pagosa Springs. From there take the trails through Creede, Durango, Silverton, Ouray, Telluride, Gunnison etc.. We will be camping along the way with hotels every two or three nights. You can bet the flyrod will be strapped on my motorcycle somewhere.



I'll be back in the office for a couple of weeks before I head back to Colorado for my second vacation. This will be my third year meeting my good friend Phil Hollinger(PH) from Ohio, in Colorado to fly fish. The first year we went to Gunnison and last year we launched from Silverthorne. Here is PH with the BIG one. PH likes the nicer things in life and will be staying in a cabin this year. I plan on tent camping.

As they say, time spent fishing is not subtracted from one's life span. Now if I can just figure out something to do this summer to help my mental health.