Being a Hermit is looking good

[DHayden]

I am a layed back person and it takes a lot to torque me, but it's bad when I do get torqued because the person has really earned it. Peoples crappy attitudes these days whether it's customer service, people driving like moron's with no concern for anyone, driving talking on the phone, being rude at grocery store's is all starting to really erk me. If I had an auto so I could throw the truck in park or a parking brake that worked, I certainly would have pulled an idiot right out of his car today in the middle of the street. This is not who I was but seems to be who I am becomming. People put my family and I in danger too often without even thinking about what they are doing.



After my mom passed a few years ago material things have meant next to nothing to me. Family and a roof over my head on a rainy day will do fine by me. I have 200 acres in Montana that sits almost in the middle of a forest reserve that has been in my family since before Montana was a state. It's beautiful, sits in the rockies, has streams and tons of game including deer, elk, moose and bear. The forest service has been trying to buy the land for the last 30 years. I daydream about living up there some day and leave all the new retards of the world to themselves so they can kill each other and no more of my family.



My daughter's are almost grown and my son's are still young. I will prep them to be better people and conquer life, as for me, I know where I will be headed because by the time my son's are grown I will certainly be ready for some rest and seclusion of mother nature.



OK I feel a little better

 

[TRAMPLINEMAN]

If you tell me how to get there, I will take good care of it for you.

 

[lizzyhermit]

notice the handle I use of this here web site. the lizzy (lizard) part is cause I love the desert and the rest is cause I have been "anti idiots" for a number of years. crowds to me define anything more than 3 people and me within sight.

 

[DHayden]

If you tell me how to get there, I will take good care of it for you.

Thanks Tramplineman, strangely enough your not the first person to offer :-laf



I've thought about opening it to a couple true RVer's (obviously no services) for part of the year just to let some peaple who like to get away experience it. I don't know any RVer's though, but It definately let's the worries wash away.

 

[Boomer II]

Just tell Tramplineman to stay on his half of the property, I don't like big crowds either!!

That sure sounds like a plan to me, I envy your situation.

 

[KBennett]

I feel your pain.



I just bought a small house on 1 acre in northern Utah for this very reason. It is on the edge of about 50 acres and I only have neighbors on the north side about 100 yards away. Nice people too.

We spent the week out there last week and came back to my postage stamp lot here in Colorado. I was concerned that my wife and boys would not like being "out in the country" but they can't wait to go back.



There are lots of open places in CO but my neighborhood has small lots and while most of the neighborhood is friendly there are a few on the block including my next door neighbor that have little consideration for anyone.



I can't wait to get this place sold and get back to Utah.

 

[justinp20012500]

I feel your pain.



I just bought a small house on 1 acre in northern Utah for this very reason. It is on the edge of about 50 acres and I only have neighbors on the north side about 100 yards away. Nice people too.

We spent the week out there last week and came back to my postage stamp lot here in Colorado. I was concerned that my wife and boys would not like being "out in the country" but they can't wait to go back.



There are lots of open places in CO but my neighborhood has small lots and while most of the neighborhood is friendly there are a few on the block including my next door neighbor that have little consideration for anyone.



I can't wait to get this place sold and get back to Utah.

Welcome back to Utah.



Utah's moto is if there any traffic congestion just make I 15 wider. Who cares that the east to west traffic is getting worse by the minute, just make I 15 wider. (I feel a little better, until the drive home)



Where north is your land.





Justin

 

[KBennett]

Where north is your land.

PM sent... ...

 

[Champane Flight]

Manners?

I will be happy to get away from the lack of manners and selfishness of populace myself. I was raised to say please and thank you, greet people with a smile. You don't see that anymore, kids with cell phones to their ears, yakking about boyfriends and walking through Walmart, pushing you aside to grab some piece of crap. People who can walk, but choose to run up and down the aisles running into to people with those damn electric carts! One trip to the local Walmart a month and I am ready for the hills!

 

[daveshoe]

Note to CF: Stay out of Wal-Mart.

 

[Champane Flight]

Love to

Although only two places to find anything in this area, Walmart, Safeway. Dog food in large bags is only at wally world, unless you want to drive another 60 miles down the road! I find the same thing in all the large stores though, more people I meet, the more I like my dogs. .

 

[DHayden]

I agree, if peaple arent in Wal-Mart they are out amongst us. It's not a Wal-Mart problem. . it's an idiot problem.

 

[CPG]

DHayden,



Enjoyed your thread. Makes me think of my Father's and his Brother's ranches in Absarokee Montana. I am an old coot in my late 70's. Ten years ago I went up to that marvelous state to look up my roots. I was not disappointed.

When I was driving down to the ranch area I never saw, I was stopped by a rancher when he saw my California license plate. He asked where I was from and what I wanted. When I told him my name his face warmed up. Terrific people in that ranching country. When I told him that our family never locked their doors up there, he answered, we still don't. I then asked what do they do about burglers, He looked at me seriously and said, " We shoot them " Times have not changed much in that county.



As far as Walmart goes, when old Sam Walton founded that company, his motto was, " Made in the USA" He would be very surprised the way things turned out.



Chuck Goode

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

Sorry, MT is now officially closed.



I hear ID, CO, UT, and WA are beautiful.



WY is a complete hole.











































my . 02

 

[jandtjil]

Sorry, MT is now officially closed.

I hear ID, CO, UT, and WA are beautiful.

WY is a complete hole.

my . 02

You're right WY is terrible, MT, ID, CO, UT, and WA are much nicer.

 

[DHayden]

There are ALLOT of Kalifornian's moving to MT. Unfortunately it's most of the not so good ones, not the one's MT would enjoy having.



Only complaint I have about WY is the darn WIND... . and the fact it always seems like I'm driving up hill no matter which direction I'm going :-laf

 

[Ol'TrailDog]

You're right WY is terrible, MT, ID, CO, UT, and WA are much nicer.

Well, I waited long enough to see if anyone around these parts was going to stand up and defend WY's honor. Guess not, so we will just have to agree.



Perchance this has something to do with it being the least populated state? Just what is it the 281 million folks have figured out that the 500k folks in WY haven't caught on to yet? Is WY just a collection sump for the nations dim bulbs, not so sharp tools, half bubble offs, and shy half-bricks?



There are virtues to living in a state with 7 months of winter... . and in a minute I will remember just what they are..... I know I've drone on and on in earlier threads about WY, shall we say, subtle charms. Perhaps the little known fact on how Wyoming got it's name will suffice. I hear tell he first boatload of prairie schnooner folks were so dazzled by WY's enchantment that all they could utter was something to the effect:



Why, why, why,... . WHY... ME?



Oh me, oh my, oh me, oh my, OH ME MY.



Well, it all just sort of ran together. An itinerant peacher accompanying the party, a Unitarian gent, who previously was a Morman that got a little tired working on his new planet scheme (something about wanting immediate pleasure versus delayed paradise and ONE woman was more than enough), that had been unsealed by the JWs as not worthy of being one of the 144K, and that was after he was defrocked by the Jesuits, wrote down the name of sagebrush sea as, yes you guessed it:



WHY... OH... . ME. . NG. . NG. . NNNNG or as it is better known WYOMING



Now don't get me started on ... MT... ... the Mother Country (grasps soiled flower patterned welders cap to chest as he dabs a moist eye with a gnarled tanned finger with a permanent patina of trail dirt embedded in the cracks and under the nail).

 

[justinp20012500]

I will be happy to get away from the lack of manners and selfishness of populace myself. I was raised to say please and thank you, greet people with a smile. You don't see that anymore, kids with cell phones to their ears, yakking about boyfriends and walking through Walmart, pushing you aside to grab some piece of crap. People who can walk, but choose to run up and down the aisles running into to people with those damn electric carts! One trip to the local Walmart a month and I am ready for the hills!

Problem summed up in one word... WAL-MART!!!



I pay a little more money to buy groceries at Albertson's, much more friendly.



I choose to sit in the truck when my wife goes into wally world.

 

[CSnyder]

I lived in Gilette, Casper, & Newcastle WY the better part of my younger years and I would give up my life on the Upper Iowa River valley and my beautiful home and lifestyle just to go back! Wyoming is great!

 

[jandtjil]

Wyoming is great!

Never mind him he works for the WY Tourism Bureau, continue to drive toward MT, CO, or UT. Nothing to see here, keep moving people, don't bother stopping in windy WY. buh bye!





whew... that was a close one!