Our Homework Assignment

We were tasked by our TopKat, KT, to name 4 places that we would live for a week, a month, a year and a half a life-time respectively. We’re supposed to “tag” 3 other bloggers but we’ll do that later after we’ve done our bit. Here goes:

A week: West Yellowstone in January or February. We know, we know… it appears we took the easy way out after just returning from there but we could’ve done what we were doing for another 3-4 days. We were only just getting used to our sleds at 65-70 mph on straight-aways and grabbing 4-5 feet of air off of jumps by the time we left.

A month: We’re going to cheat on this one. A month in San Francisco and one October in SEC country taking in Wednesday evening-starting tailgates and of course the games on Saturday. Mandatory stops: A night game at Death Valley and the World’s Largest Outdoor Cocktail Party. We’ve had two opportunities to live and work in San Fran for 3-4 week stretches and absolutely loved every minute of it. But thank goodness for per diems… chianti and gnocchi in North Beach and courting the fairer sex will break a man in a hurry without a little help.

One year: hmmm…. We’ve done two roadies through the region in the past 2 years and read an outstanding book on the same’s patron saint, John Wesley Powell (by Wallace Stegner). The Colorado Plateau/Four Corners area remains the most visually arresting and fascinating physical locales we have ever seen. Give us a year and perhaps we will have merely scratched the surface to exploring this place.

Half a life-time: We’re well on our way already so why change horses now. We still have friends in the LA/OC area who are wondering when we will end this near-18 year “experiment” down here and move back up there. We pity them… we truly do. Even a fantastically corrupt and inept city hall can’t ruin this love affair with our adopted hometown.

KT, Can we go outside and play now?