Let's see: at some point Bill and I posted a centerfold on the ceiling of the Land Cruiser so that we could look at her while lying on our backs. Joe was horrified, and asked what I would do if he taped up such a picture in the sanctuary of St. Michaels. There followed a great discussion on what makes a place "holy" . . .
Then there were the girls who were travelling around the country, much like we were, who sort of "hit on us" one night. Near Yellowstone? They were living almost exclusively on peanut butter.
And how about the (thank GOD!) aborted overnight backpacking trip in Yellowstone to a place called "Grizzly Lake"? We had a pamphlet map (worthless) and my boyscout haversack. We passed a herd of bison, some elk, and the trail eventually vanished. We gave up and returned to the Land Cruiser. This is the only part of the trip that gives me fullbodyshivers at 3:00 a.m. from time to time. We surely would have died if we had persisted in this foolhardy trek.
Can either of you fill in some details?
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GREAT STUFF....
a 'holy' discussion was fairly normal as i recall during the entire trip. you and joe were highly opinionated on this subject and i might have even learned something....if i listened. wow, a centerfold on the ceiling, you'd think i'd remember that .. classic.
the traveling girls i recalled only from talking with joe in feb, now that you confirm the story(with added details--"peanut butter", i'm begining to see it) as joe liked to say 'i think i stopped you and hank from getting *censored*. i joe's 'religious conversation' was the turning point and it was probably all for the best that we were 'saved'.
you have pulled a thread with the '
grizzly lake' story....i kinda of remember something, but it's hazy.i can see us with a 'ranger handout paper map' and walking thru a meadow...very hazy...
our image of 'immortal' has been shaken but not stirred. i'm sure a night with the bears would have fine and our immortality confirmed
OMG! What an insufferable prig I must've been!
The Peanut Butter girls (no remarks about "spread easy", please) remind me about that great scene in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" where the sireeens loved up on the boys and turned Delmar into a toad. At least I think it was Delmar.
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