Red Mosquito

epilogue wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

epilogue wrote:Going to Austin at the end of Jan.

Going to Barcelona at the end of Feb.

Going to Ireland in August.

What are you planning to see and do in Ireland?

Alright. So we decided to go in May instead of August. Our trip is more or less booked. We're flying into Dublin. We'll have two full days there. We're seeing Ibsen's Ghosts at the Abbey Theater on the second night.

We are renting a car and driving to the west coast. Definitely staying in Doolin. Seeing the Cliffs of Moher. Doing the Aran Islands -- we'll probably only have time for one island. Leaning Inis Oirr? But Inis Mor seems super rad, too.

We'll have three days in and around that area. Then we'll drive back to Dublin, hoping to go through Galway on the way back. Another couple of days in Dublin and then fly out.

Those are the broad strokes. Really excited for this trip, y'all!

spike wrote:You gonna get the brand?

Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:You gonna get the brand?

The Mariners are doing a Yellowstone night later this season where you get a belt buckle that has both the Y brand logo and a Mariners logo on it.

Washington won’t let Montana use its ports to export coal. Just some context before you wear this thing in public.

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:You gonna get the brand?

The Mariners are doing a Yellowstone night later this season where you get a belt buckle that has both the Y brand logo and a Mariners logo on it.

Washington won’t let Montana use its ports to export coal. Just some context before you wear this thing in public.

If John Dutton were governor they would.

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Bammer wrote:

spike wrote:You gonna get the brand?

The Mariners are doing a Yellowstone night later this season where you get a belt buckle that has both the Y brand logo and a Mariners logo on it.

Washington won’t let Montana use its ports to export coal. Just some context before you wear this thing in public.

If John Dutton were governor they would.

John Dutton is a fictional character FYI

spike wrote:Yeah concerned about bumming around a ski town in June when there’s no fresh pow pow.

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:Yeah concerned about bumming around a ski town in June when there’s no fresh pow pow.

fly-fishing, hiking, rafting, mountain biking, grilling...

spike wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

spike wrote:Yeah concerned about bumming around a ski town in June when there’s no fresh pow pow.

fly-fishing, hiking, rafting, mountain biking, grilling...

Sounds exhausting

spike wrote:Mountain bros, tell me about Breckinridge, CO. Wife’s boss wants spouses to fly out for a dinner and I assume some other R&R next month.

spike wrote:I assume Denver. Then what, a 1.5 drive? Ugh.