View from Trail Ridge Road

[birdsnest]

You learned about dry ice and the patience of George. I'm quite sure that experience would have been another blocker to get in heaven for me. I think I'm getting better. There are certain people I just love to follow and you are most certainly one of them. Hopefully we can meet some day.

I kind of left out the funniest part....... I was very naive back in those days and clueless about camping-related things...... and keep in mind there was not a single living soul on this road - not even a bird [which was a little eerie] Anyway, at one point George said he sure would enjoy a cold beer about now....... well the frozen food cooler happened to be on the back seat of the car.... and I replied that there was cold beer - I had packed it on top of the dry ice and it was right behind him in the back seat. He looked at me with this look of amazement on his face that I could possibly be that dumb, did not say a word, stopped the car, got out and started taking frozen solid beer out of the cooler and placing it on the dashboard in the sunshine.. got back in and still not saying a word continued on...... I was thinking oops... guess that wasn't such a great idea... I learned about dry ice that day.

 

[Waterbaby]

You learned about dry ice and the patience of George. I'm quite sure that experience would have been another blocker to get in heaven for me. I think I'm getting better. There are certain people I just love to follow and you are most certainly one of them. Hopefully we can meet some day.

Thanks...... who knows one day we may actually have another big gathering at the lake.

He was a good man, I was blessed, because no one is more aware than I how much I must have tried his patience over the years, starting with the first time he let me drive his boat so he could do a shore start on a dead flat lake first thing in the morning and I proceeded to wrap the rope around the prop and then when I learned that hard way you don't make right hand turns in a boat like you do a car [oops]..... I suspect we could have a very long thread with the adventures all of us have experienced over the years in boating - I have seen some huge couples fights at the launch ramp over the years with people who do not have patience with their spouse, including right on State Line ramp at Lake Powell.