Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: sleek on August 28, 2013, 03:23:31 am
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Some folks have a bucket list. Things they wanna do before they die. Whatever, I do as much as I can now, kinda a live for the day type of thing. I dont reckon yall are much different. So What are the most awesom things you have done in your life? You know, the things that when you die, the grim reaper gives you a high five. Make your list long as possible. Mine is :D I will post mine later on tonight when I get home. This can be fun, or maybe I just like to brag?
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So here is my awesome list:
I have rode horses and bulls,
rebuilt many car engines and two transmissions
Sailed around the world
Been launched off an aircraft carrier,
Surfed in Hawaii
Gone cliff climbing
Learned to use a lasso ( not so impressive but neat anyway )
Designed and built flying model airplanes
Designed and built working small jet engines,
Designed and built a wooden boat and am building another of my design,
Have repaired boat motors,
Graduated with honors from college for aircraft repair
Built a few bows ( now that IS awesome )
Hand forged knives and arrow heads,
wood carved objects,
Made my own charcoal for drawing portraits,
Caught a shark,
Caught 50+ pound tarpon on 15 pound test line,
Swam in shark infested waters,
gone fishing for 48 hours straight non stop standing
Lived 4 months comfortably without power, ( a whole string of problem solving happens there )
Well thats all the cool stuff thats happened to me/ I have done so far. What about yall?
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Ive met lots of great people in my life. A lot in the last 3-4 years.
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I met and married a bright and beautiful lady who not only brought my children into the world and is doing a fine job raising them while I'm on the road 300 days a year, but she taught me that there is more to life than being a drunken adrenaline junky. Although, I have to admit that on occasion, I have a tendency to suffer relapses on the drunk part ;) >:D. Shhhhh! Lol! Josh
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I once dropped a deuce from a tree in a public area with people around because there was nowhere left to go in an emergency. It was one of my finest moments. Thankfully it was summertime.
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Parnell that is too cool! Id like to say Id pay to see that, but that's just not right.
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I wasnt sure how how this post would sound or go. Honestly, I was just trying to find out what neat things other folks have done in their lives, not really to show off myself, though I really guess it sounds that way. And most things on my list arent really adrenaline type of things, but more just, cool ( to me ) stuff. Anyways, really hoping I didnt come off as a jerk, or something.
Parnell, thats freakin funny! ; All the leaves musta helped conceal you. Did you blae it on the dog? :D
Gun Doc, Being married is for certain, with out contest, the most awesome life long adventure. Especially if you ever get the pleasure of raising kids.
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This is going to sound really dismal and sad but was a great honor for me to do, I take great pride in what I accomplished. I guess you would have had to be there to understand.
My wife got cancer. I cared for her with compassion from the first day she was diagnosed to her last by myself. I had a home health care and later a Hospice nurse as a mentor when I needed advice.
Multiple surgeries, horrible complications, IV feeding for 3 months, wound packing, over two months sitting by her side in various hospitals, ER visits at 2am, incontinence clean-ups, the list is endless.
Almost sleepless for two days, I was by her side when she passed at 2 am. Awesome isn't the right word, pride in my ability to be able to thank her for all she had given me during the 30 years we had been together, perhaps. I gave her the best care she could have hoped for during the last year and two months of her life.
No matter what I do or accomplish in life, I will never top this "awesome" experience.
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Amen Eric, nothing can compare to that, ever. You did exactly what she needed from you and exactly what a loving husband should do. We didn't go all the way down that road with my wife, but we covered 2/3 of it and I have an IDEA of where your coming from. Your a good man.
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Erik, I totally understand and that is nothing short of awesome.
That said, I've often thought of a top ten list of places I'd like to see a well planned deuce drop = nothing short of awesome. Over the railing at the Empire State Building, out of the window of a car doing 80 on the interstate, on my old bosses desk, in an ex-girlfriends purse, etc.
Sorry, not trying to hijack the thread but couldn't resist myself.
Now, I'll digress...hopefully.
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I won't quite be done with this one till Dec 31 but I made a living human being using only my pecker (with the help of my wife of course ;)). That still kind of blows my mind :o.
@sleek- 48 hours fishing?? explain that one.
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I won't quite be done with this one till Dec 31 but I made a living human being using only my pecker (with the help of my wife of course ;)). That still kind of blows my mind :o.
@sleek- 48 hours fishing?? explain that one.
That's funny too, and awesome!!!
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Mark....Now that is awesomer!!!!
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48 hours fishing ties into when I had no power. When I got out the navy things did not go well. I couldn't find a job. Mywife got one at Starbucks that afforded us a small amount of money.anyways, the short version is we had no food and i had a 3 year old son to take care of. So I determined that I was going to catch fish and not stop trying until I had. I was sleepy and sitting made it worse so I stood the entire time. I didnt catch anything those two days but when I got home my wife told me the manager at starbucks found out we were struggling. So he let her take home all the food that was going to expire at the end of the night. I will tell more of this later because its interesting, though parts of it were extreme lows in my life. We are doing great now so it ends well.
Eric, I wish I had something profound and meaninful to say. But I'm stumped. I don't believe I need to say anything though because your actions said it all.
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So here is my awesome list:
I have rode horses and bulls,
rebuilt many car engines and two transmissions
Sailed around the world
Been launched off an aircraft carrier,
Surfed in Hawaii
Gone cliff climbing
Learned to use a lasso ( not so impressive but neat anyway )
Designed and built flying model airplanes
Designed and built working small jet engines,
Designed and built a wooden boat and am building another of my design,
Have repaired boat motors,
Graduated with honors from college for aircraft repair
Built a few bows ( now that IS awesome )
Hand forged knives and arrow heads,
wood carved objects,
Made my own charcoal for drawing portraits,
Caught a shark,
Caught 50+ pound tarpon on 15 pound test line,
Swam in shark infested waters,
gone fishing for 48 hours straight non stop standing
Lived 4 months comfortably without power, ( a whole string of problem solving happens there )
Well thats all the cool stuff thats happened to me/ I have done so far. What about yall?
Sleek it sure sounds like ya lived on the edge.... 8) some of us have lived boring lives. I think I have 9 lives used up at least 4. I basically came into this planet almost dead; Blue as blue could be. Had the big "C" a couple years ago. Funny thing how this subject came up. If I could really, Really, really live another 4 lives, I could not do all the things I could have done.
What are they...?
(1) Fighter pilot
(2) Professional race car driver
(3) or race car team mechanic
(4) Air traffic controller
(5) Professional Tennis player
(6) Build bows for a living..?
Are those big dreams, Nope not at all. I was extemely fit when young, big time stamina and I could multi task quickly, could tie my shoes while riding a bike. Think I'll go in the Garage now to work on a bow..... ;)
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I'm slowly building my list:
I've surfed in Hawaii
Landed in a helicopter on Mt. McKinley
Visited the wettest, windiest, and driest places on Earth, along with the highest in North America
Have climbed a large number of the 46 Adirondack high peaks
Visted and hiked into the majority of the national parks in the western United States.
Hiked onto the Harding Icefield in Seward Alaska
camped in a tent on a frozen Adirondack lake
Seen the northern lights
Earned a black belt in Shotokan karate and my eagle scout
And done a crapload of other stuff that means a lot more to me than anyone else would understand if posted it here, so I'll spare you the details! >:D
But here's the kicker... I'm only 18! >:D >:D >:D
Jon
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My list is kind of lame compared to some of you guys.
~ Found a woman that is willing to spend the rest of her life with me and have my kids.
~ Survived a 15' fall out of a tree
~ Petted a live beaver in a creek ( I have pictures to prove it)
~ Made it through heart surgery
~ Annoyed a momma bobcat to just before the point of attack.
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I've never stepped up to the plate like Eric has done. As horrible as it sounds, the chance to care that deeply for another person is something I envy.
As a kid I had 5 dreams. I've achieved 4 of them.
1) Worked in a radio station on the air.
2) Was a professional actor, I've got almost 2,000 appearances onstage.
3) Worked as a park ranger, state parks and for the National Park Service at Mt. Rushmore. (Yeah, the view from Washington's head IS that good!)
4) Worked with falcons and other raptors.
The only dream from my childhood that I have left is to visit Emperor Penguins on their breeding grounds in Antarctica. They breed in the winter. What was I thinking?
Other then a very brief moment of madness, I have been a lifelong bachelor doing just what I wanted and when I wanted.
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well heres mine:
shot an elk with a longbow
shot over 300 ground squerells with a longbow (about a 100 with a primitive bow)
called in and shot 18 coyotes in one month (i only hunted about 25 days)
shot a coyote in a dead run at 427 yards
made over 80 custom knives
rode more horses then i can count
roped more cattle then i can count
shot 16 deer in 4 years (most on public land or block management)
trained the best bird dog i've ever hunted with
so far have survived 12 years of home school (by far the toughest of all of them)
lived twenty miles or more from town most of my life
maybe not all that exiting but i've only had sixteen years to do it, hopefully the next sixteen will have at least half that much in it.
Duck
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Well here is mine ---...........................:....................................................................... Yep ........... ..
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It is so fun reading your guy's life experiences. I don't find them boastful at all, just highly interesting.
At 40, I had been married once and had a long term relationship, but had happy resigned myself to bachelorhood, when the blond California, vegetarian chick stole my heart. Apparently, I was a bad influence on her. She now thinks my venison chili is the best food ever. She's insisting that Saturday night we should go frog gigging and Sunday we should take the canoe out for a fishing trip.
Other life accomplishments:
I've kayaked class V water on steep creeks where ever paddle stroke has to be near perfect.
I've been to Zambia and Zimbabwe where I saw wild elephants, rhino, buffalo, giraffes baboons, wart hogs...
On this trip I had an elephant mock charge to within 15 yards, a hippo charge our inflatable canoe and a baby baboon fall out of a tree beside our tent.
I stepped on a 250+ pound wild boar. I fortunately there was a small sapling for me to jump up into as it stood up and tried to hook me with it's tusk. I've had 6 or 7 other close calls with wild boar.
I've tracked wound bear on my hands and knees through clear cut thickets in Maine.
I've had 2 close, aggressive encounters with bull moose.
I've jumped on the backs of 3 wounded deer to finish them off with my knife.
I've been bitten by a rattlesnake.
I've had the good fortune to have 3 once in a life great Brittany Spaniels to allow me to hunt with them and sleep on my chest at the cabin and have 2 more that were darn good hunting dogs. Two 3rd generation puppies are nursing by my side right now.
I have met some of the best people in the world on this site.
As Pappy would say, "Life is Good."
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This thread is turning out to be awesome! Thanks to everybody who contributed and please keep it coming!
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The only thing I don't like about this thread is I need back stories to a lot of these accomplishments.
JW is an actor with 2000 apprearances????
Hedge STEPPED on a boar???? You can't leave folks hanging like that ::)
Also the more I read others posts the more I think oh yeah I did that too.
I surfed HI.
Eagle Scout
I shot a coyote 350yds at a trot. <---I was the one trotting 8)......haha. yeah right. The coyote was trotting. I pulled up to the field and pulled my truck 45 degrees and shot off the side mirror.
I've shot a drop tine velvet buck.......here is the kicker........on the last day of the season. He had a genetic defect (no balls). That's the 2nd velvet eunuch buck out of that farm. The other being on thanksgiving.
Shot 5 doves n 4 shots.
Hunted squirrels with a red tail hawk.
Knifed a hog
Been to Pikes Peak (highest point in the US)
Been in the Statue of Liberty.
I've already mentioned the power of my pecker earlier. 8)
Also something a lot of you have done that I haven't and is worth mentioning and the reason why I'm here, I want to kill a deer/hog with a hand made weapon.
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At 63 years old I can say I have lived the life I wanted to live, not the life others thought I should live. I got married at 28 to a woman that I am still with after 35 years. Marcia and I raised her daughter together(Meredith is now 41 and the Deputy Associate Chief Council for Customs and Border Patrol in Houston) and we have lived in the two places we both always wanted to live, Bluffton SC and now Brevard, NC where we built our dream house in 1990 on 25 beautiful acres.
A few years ago(2006) I got to go on a dream hunt to the San Juan Mountains of SW Colorado with a PA member Littl John(Kenneth Gorman). I've been out there two times now and had a fabulous time both times even though the elk never showed up. On my last trip I was within 25 yards of a wolf and he never knew I was there. Now, that was COOL!!! Both of these trips were successful even though I never saw an elk.
I worked for a ship channeler where I delivered ship stores to many foreign ships, worked on an ocean going tug boat one summer between Savannah and San Juan Puerto Rico, worked on the fire systems on the NS Savannah, the first US neuclear powered cargo ship, became a leathersmith and part owner of a custom leather shop, was a factory trained Johnson/Evenrude outboard motor mechanic, a certified landscaper and nurseryman and now a NC REALTOR(with landscape work for my living).
I think I was one of the first subscribers to PA magazine and have been a proud member ever since and have met some of the best folks around right here on PA. I have been to the Tennessee Classic 6 or 7 times now and will continue to go as long as I am able. I was amoung the survivors of the 13th annual TennClassic when we had 14" of rain in two days.
Actually I have lived a pretty boring life....but it was the life I wanted to live. ;)
I never have been much of a hunter but I have enjoyed hunting since the early 1980s and hunt mostly with bow and arrow that either I built myself of others have built for me. I've always enjoyed the out of doors but that is something I learned on my own because it was not something my immediate family ever did. I have never taken an animal(except a squirrel) with my homemade gear but I did miss 6 deer in a row in less than 15 minutes...with only 3 arrows.
Oh yeah, I surfed Savannah Beach, GA. ;D
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I have never taken an animal(except a squirrel) with my homemade gear but I did miss 6 deer in a row in less than 15 minutes...with only 3 arrows.
I think this is my favorite so far.
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That was my first 6 arrows shot in a hunting situation with traditional archery. I had to climb out of my treestand to retrieve the 3 arrows before I missed the next 3 shots. ;D Every shot was over the deer's back(6 deer in all chasing a hot doe) and the shots were within 15 yards of my tree. ::)
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I know exactly how you feel. Adrenalin and nerves can do a number on a man. I missed a hog last year at less than 10 yds.
Did I mention it was with a scoped rifle??? Monday I missed a hog at 20yds with my 44 mag. I missed the same deer 2 times at less than 20 with my compound. For some dumb reason I used my 30 yd pin. That would make a good thread. MOST EPIC MISSES. I think I'll start it and stop hijacking this one. ;)
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There are some mighty fine adventures listed here. Some not yet happened but I am sure they will eventually knowing the lot of you! I do not have an "awesome" or "bucket list". At this point My wife and I have raised three of our four grandchildren for at least part of their lives. We have two of them part time at the moment. So.... My awesome list would be to have time to work on the things that I want to work on them - all of the "hobbies" that you all seem to have so much time to work on. I enjoy my job but I have not had "me" time in a long time. So bad this year I did not even buy a fishin license! I just keep telling myself "Just remember to BREATHE!"
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Mark, here the back story on hog stepping actually I kind of stepped on two hogs within 10 minutes:
I was boar hunting with a group in GA. My weapon was .58 muzzleloader. It was hot so all the pigs were in the thick swampy area. The dogs had bayed a boar. Three of us had separated from the group. It was so thick, the only place to walk was a drainage ditch about 14" wide. Even then the tangled mess hung over the ditch. You could see your feet. The tangle were about waist high. I was second in line. My gun was slung over my shoulder. The lead guy was about 5 yards ahead of me. I see him jump and cuss, then the weeds start parting heading my direction. Fortunately the was a sapling about 4" diameter. I jumped as high as could, grabbing the sapling and pulling my legs as close to my chest as possible. The big boar ran right under me. My boots scraped his back. He swung his head up to try to hook me with what seemed to 4-6" tusk. That's the kinda stepping on a boar story.
The other 2 guys were hunting with compounds. After the first incident, they elected me to lead since I had a firearm. No more than 10 minute later, I feel something big move quickly under my boot. Oh **!!! I tossed the gun to the side and jumped up another sapling. The boar whirled, hooking at my boots. Then ran down the drainage toward the other guys. Thank God for well placed saplings.
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I killed 5 quail on a covey rise once with 5 shots, a nice 8 point off the ground on public hunting land with my selfbow, killed three doves flying together with three shots, pass shooting, that went by smoking with the wind to their tails, did the same on ducks. There was a time long past when my wing shooting was on auto pilot, I barely remember pulling the trigger or swinging on the next target but my shotgun sounded like it was on full auto and everything in front of me fell out of the sky.
Now it takes me three boxes of shells to kill a 15 bird limit of doves.
Worked my butt off for 30 years, mostly power plant shift work, almost never turned down an overtime shift, my record was 9 double shifts in 14 days. I lived frugally, saved my money, became debt free and retired at 52 when my company downsized and sent me to the house.
I guess the "awesome" part of the work story was when the company called me to come back, I was in a secure place financially and was able to tell them to "kiss it".
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Very impressive posts here, but Eric, your first post deserves an standing "O"!!!
I've been married for 32 great years to my nurse I had when I had knee surgery from a football injury. I was never getting married, and after five months of meeting that nurse I was! :o :o Guess it was meant to be. She also catches more Croppie than I do and helped me raise two great girls, who fishes pretty good tooo. All of that and two granddaughters later I can't wait for what's next.
DBar
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JW is an actor with 2000 apprearances????
Yup. Repertory theatre. Worked 5 month stretchs twice a year without a day off and lotsa matinees on weekends. It defined not having a life. Learning 10 pages of scripts daily, 14 hour days the norm. One thousand nine hundred and seventy-two performances and only twice did a director say "good job". On the other hand, I think I have been called things that Marine Corps Drill Instructors are afraid to say. Let's just say that nice people are rare in theatre and leave it at that. But I met one, loved her, lost her without the chance to be there like Eric was for his, and promptly train-wrecked myself. And that's it.
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Very cool thread, I will throw in my two cents for what its worth.IN no certain order first few probably the hardest.
I spent two days this summer looking for a friends 3yr old grandson that drown in the river below my house finding him the second night.Very relieved and horrible at the same time
Last Nov. I had a hunting accident shooting my SUPER AWESOME wife with a .54 cal round ball. Kept my S#$T together and got her out of the woods and all is well.
Lost my little brother in car crash
Ruined an awesome friendship of 20 years
Trained a tittled several labs before I was 30 had my own bloodline
Had my own piece of hunting paradise paid for by 39
Climbed lots of rocks from coast to coast
Hiked lots of trails from coast to coast
Paddled more awesome rivers than I can count
Called a coyote in by mouth in green plaid no camo and shot with a recurve at 7yds on the ground
Built my home from the ground up using old cabins and barns
Raise 60% of my own food
Have the privilage of being married to the most Awesome lady in the world who is by my side on almost all adventures, Father and step father to a mob of pretty good heathens, Friend to some great people far and wide.
I am blessed to live in the most scenic part of the Ohio river Valley IMOP and smack dab between lots of public land in two states,and plenty of private as well, I am also blessed to call many on here friend.
Thanks
Keith
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Right now me and my brothers are going through something similar to what Eric went through .
Our mother is dieng of cancer , not sure how much longer she will be with us , we are taking turns watching over her and working our jobs ( if it comes down to it family comes before my job ) ,mom's sister is helping also. She raised us boys up right , none of us three have ever been in trouble .
I've noodled a 54 pound flatheat by myself ( my brother pulled out a 62 pounder by himself , we are not competitive with each other , just luck of the draw ) .
I called in a small buck by grunting and bleating with my voice ( did not use a call ) and got h with a bow at twelve yards ( haven't been able to get another buck in that way again , have called a few does in but let them walk ).
I worked on cars since I was about ten ( first ones were sanding pickup beds in the summer for dad ) , started on the turnpike almost five years ago ( was 38 at the time and on the ninty plan will be about sixty or so when I retire, yep 42 and will be 43 in November). Still work on cars from time to time against my will. Done the machine work on many engines big and small .
Met many wonderful people on here and through our self bow club here in Oklahoma, and learned to make self bows and helped many others at OJAM . Have gained many friends from all over through OJAM and hope to make many more and who knows maybe ill meet some of you one day.
Steadily working on paying my own little forty acres of dirt off , an old friend of mine once told me that they aren't making that any more. Hope to get that done in three years or so .
I have owned and rode horses .
I've stayed on the straight and narrow (most of my life ) never smoked and haven't been a big drinker (only really been drunk once in my life , but didn't pass out ) .
I keep a few bee hives and stay self sufficient at it ( raise my own queens when I need to , and never use any kind of treatment in my hives) .
Now I need to start a bucket list: think I'll try for a bear with a self bow next year if I can swing it .
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Poggins, Where in Okie land are you? Im just north of Tulsa.
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Near center , just south of Stillwater ( about 25 miles ) and north of Chandler .
Used to travel up northeast of Tulsa to snag spoonbill below Hudson dam.
Still get up to Keystone dam from time to time and up by Blackburn on the Arkansas river ( good stretch to fish with the kayaks . Have you been to OJAM ?
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I went to OJAM last year. Were you there? I hunt Keystone every year. We should meet up. I'm headin out there this weekend to do a bit of pre season scouting.
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This yearI was a red hat under the tent just east of the pravilan helping Milke show new people how to build bows (spent a lot of time at the tillering tree Saturday ) . Last year I was sick and didn't want to spread what ever I had so stayed home , I did go to the campout though.
Would like to get up on Keystone and hunt , have thought about it for years just never went .
With what we are going through I'll have to wait for now , it's almost day to day with mom .
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Iv'e had many awesome experience in my life,but I'll list just a few .growing up in rural nova scotia over looking cape breton island,spearing 6' sea eels with mask and snorkel,being encirled by a pod of pilot whales while swimming,harpooning a 1150lb blue fin tuna ,watching sea birds dive bomb from round 500',catching a 3' lobster,seeing a beluga whale up close,seeing dolphin and porposises leap out of the water,and being in 30' seas in a 38' boat!
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I keep thinking up these things,hope I am not boring you guys.
A couple years ago I was walking the local 2.5 mile exercise trail when two older guys passed me riding bicycles. As I got to the top of a very long steep hill I saw one of the guys walking briskly up the hill without his bike. He excitedly said "my friend is hurt and I don't know what to do".
I sprinted down the hill to find his friend on the ground, badly injured. It appeared he had applied his front brake, gone over the handlebars on the steep hill and hit the pavement face first, no helmet. He was a mess, thrashing, incoherent, covered with blood, part of his nose gone and his face and scalp badly cut and bleeding profusely.
I had assisted EMTs at the plant on several rescues but had never taken charge of one myself.
I stabilize the guy to keep him from moving his head, was able to talk him down to a less frenzied attitude and directed the rubberneckers that had congregated to call 911 and get a rescue team on the way. It surprised me that with the gathering crowd, no one offered to help.
I kept a well meaning TVA cop from moving his neck to place a coat under his head. He agreed later it would have been the wrong thing to do.
EMTs arrived and took charge. My only complaint was they paid no attention to my assessment that the guy had possible brain damage because of his confusion and combativeness, they pretty much brushed me off like I didn't exist.
After the ambulance arrived I left the guy with them and continue my walk. While I was taking care of the guy I was a cool a cucumber, as I walked away my legs started shaking and I felt like throwing up, pretty strange.
Later a TVA public safety officer tracked me down to fill out a report. I asked about the guy I helped, he replied "they life flighted him out to a hospital in Huntsville Al for possible brain damage". So it goes, I never heard if he recovered or not.
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@ Eric - unfortunately the lack of help seems to be the way things are. I have helped many and refused payment for it. "professionals" often blow off those with less letters, certificates or degrees. I have worked emergency situations with our local law enforcement folks enough to record the information they are looking for and relay it later after the situation has diffused a bit. We have as Interpretive staff been trained in PSAR(Preventative Search and Rescue) which helps maintain our calm and teaches us what not to say over the radio. Thanks for helping that man out, most "Americans" are no longer willing to do that.
As for misses - ground squirrels in the wood shed at 30 feet.... well, let's say there are still some of them taunting me!
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Eric , good job on your part . I've been a volunteer fire fighter for seventeen years and a lot of people have trouble keeping their cool in a situation like that , even trained officers can forget basic emergency training and it's good that you were ther or it could have been worse , moving someone with a head and neck injury is never good without proper support .
Delt with several emergancies myself , the worst was a drunk driver on a dirt road with a car full of kids not fastened in , wanted to take that guy out to the woods and work him over .
Been in a lot of big fires also and saved several houses even when the smoke was so bad you couldn't see where you wer going .
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I was a fire team leader in the power plant I worked in, I have been through fire school twice, once for grunt training and other time for team leader training. After doing several burn building dummy rescues, turn outs, air packs, buring hay making the place hot as hades and black as night with smoke, I realize what special people the guys who do this on a regular basis in real life are.
I worked a few run of the mill industrial fires but wasn't on shift for the really bad ones that happened in the plant.
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Here is my list in rough chronological order, best I can remember :)
- Climbed up a pine tree so high that the top broke off, with me on it.
- Spent a good portion of my early childhood running around in the woods
- Got 4 stitches in my tongue - the last one with no anesthesia
- Broke both of my wrists at he same time
- Hit a bull moose with my car
- Drove 1300 miles to hike in Wyoming. Spent one night in the mountains (after hitting the above mentioned moose) and had to drive all the way back because my friend got terribly sick
- Ice climbed in Rocky Mountain Nat'l Park
- Stung in the finger by a wasp while lead climbing in the Red River Gorge
- Hiked to the top of Long's Peak, CO
- Worked at a startup video game company that turned out to be an utter failure
- Hiked a mountain in Ecuador in a T-shirt while forgetting to apply sunscreen. Worst sunburn I have ever had
- Survived a bus trip in the Andes mountains
- Quit my full-time job and worked at home as a freelance software developer for 5 years
- Survived 6 grueling technical interviews and managed to snag a job at the #1 company in the world to work for.
- Have hiked amonst the redwoods
- Blessed with 2 awesome boys and a third boy on the way in February
- Managed to stay married for going on 11 years now.
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Oh threads like this will remind me of all the awesome things I've done and make my ego swell up >:D
-Free dived to 70' (depth)
-Lived in Turkey for nearly 5 years and learned Turkish.
-Found and caught a wild chameleon (Mediterranean Chameleon.
-Traveled to many countries in Oceania, North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
-Spoke with a Turkish cow herder who had never seen an airplane or European(ethnicity) up close.
-Dived a WWII wreck in the Marshall Islands
-Caught and released and eastern diamondback rattlesnake with my bare hands. (never do that again!)
-Caught many a sharks from my kayak
-Caught and released some alligators bare handed
-Swam with the largest species of turtle in the world
-I have an island in the Keys.... that i squat on >:D
-Gave my life to the Lord at 17
-I make money off of kayaking
-Handled the most venomous species of snake in Africa (boom slang)
-Lived 8 days out of my truck (toyota home) on school campus til I got busted >:D
-Met some of the most incredible people from all over the world
-Got hooked on primitive skills and bow making, which brought me here.
-Avoided becoming a criminal :D
-Survived to the ripe age of 23 >:D
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Oh threads like this will remind me of all the awesome things I've done and make my ego swell up >:D
-Free dived to 70' (depth)
-Lived in Turkey for nearly 5 years and learned Turkish.
-Found and caught a wild chameleon (Mediterranean Chameleon.
-Traveled to many countries in Oceania, North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
-Spoke with a Turkish cow herder who had never seen an airplane or European(ethnicity) up close.
-Dived a WWII wreck in the Marshall Islands
-Caught and released and eastern diamondback rattlesnake with my bare hands. (never do that again!)
-Caught many a sharks from my kayak
-Caught and released some alligators bare handed
-Swam with the largest species of turtle in the world
-I have an island in the Keys.... that i squat on >:D
-Gave my life to the Lord at 17
-I make money off of kayaking
-Handled the most venomous species of snake in Africa (boom slang)
-Lived 8 days out of my truck (toyota home) on school campus til I got busted >:D
-Met some of the most incredible people from all over the world
-Got hooked on primitive skills and bow making, which brought me here.
-Avoided becoming a criminal :D
-Survived to the ripe age of 23 >:D
Retype your post in Turkish.
I claim this .....OOOOO!!!.......island in the ........GRRRRRRR!!.........(thump)...name of Primitivetime!
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I speak Turkey, too.
Yelp yelp yelp yelp! Prrrrrrut PUTT! Prrrrrit PUTT! GOBBLE-OBBLE-OBBLE-OBBLE! >:D
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I speak Turkey, too.
Yelp yelp yelp yelp! Prrrrrrut PUTT! Prrrrrit PUTT! GOBBLE-OBBLE-OBBLE-OBBLE! >:D
And that will be the nine hundred and fifty seven billionth time I've heard that one. First time online though... :D
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I don't know how to add to this without starting a new thread called, " How many scars do you have" ::)
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I don't know how to add to this without starting a new thread called, " How many scars do you have" ::)
Haha i personally love my many scars, its like carrying around a permanent
Autobiography and storybook.
Jon
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No need to start a new thread, scars qualify. Notice how I didnt define what awesome was, so if its awesome to you, post it! And by the way, TPAWSWP ( this post aint worth shizza without pics )
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Great Eric,Thats what life is about to me ,taking care of Family and friends. :)I have done nothing really very awesome,Gator hunt was pretty cool ;) :) and a few trips out west,that's about it,seem pretty dull compaired to some of yalls stuff,I will say it's been a great life and don't think I would change a thing,Great wife and kids,loads of very good friends,pretty simple life and very routine,Just the way I like it. ;) :) No realy bucket list,most anything I really wanted to do I have done. :)
Pappy
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Mark, the way you have opened Twin Oaks to the world and impacted so may lives in such a positive way is beyond awesome.
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There is nothing about living a content life that is not awesome.