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Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

  • mookie will keep dreaming about (insert poster here) and fluffy pillows.

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • mookie will be dreaming about A-girls and more fluffy pillows

    Votes: 10 45.5%

  • mookie will be dreaming about golf courses and non-fluffy greens

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • mookie will be dreaming about putt-putting with the A-girls and Siamese cats

    Votes: 9 40.9%

  • Giada's melons are all that's worth dreaming about

    Votes: 11 50.0%

  • Freddy Meyer will hack mookies dreams and they won't be pretty

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • I had a dream that one day we would all have bacon!

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • All of the Lodge will be dreaming about St. Clown starting no more poll threads

    Votes: 8 36.4%

  • something, something for the ladies, fill in blank here ( )

    Votes: 6 27.3%

  • Twitch will have b-day dreams about hot dogs and hallways.

    Votes: 8 36.4%
  • Total voters
    22
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Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

Good Afternoon, Lodge!

Sitting in the car right about to enter North Dakota. The next 6+ hours are going to be hell.
 
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Good evening Lodge.

Back home from a 6 day camping trip. A couple days of work then we have another camping trip scheduled.

I'm going to be looking at travel trailers this week or next. g is considering sleeping in climate controlled comfort............
 
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Copper Harbor is just about as north as you can get, and it's east on the tip. Hence, NE. :p

Anyway, finally got home about 8pm real time, after leaving at 10am fake time. Made a couple stops along the way, and a side trip to Two Harbors MN. I am beat.
 
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Went to see Minions tonight. The main supervillainess is named Scarlet Overkill (voiced by Sandra Bullock)... couldn't help but thinking about our own beloved Scarlet.
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Found this by ME on the previous thread - don't think I commented at the time. Just saw this tonight. Was smiling every time Scarlet Overkill was on screen. Tried to tell my friend I was with - that's me!! Heh. She didn't understand.
 
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Spent the day on the Mississippi just north of Dubuque with my buddy's Baja. Cruising speed was 52mph. I've never been on a boat going that fast and it was a pretty fun rush. I don't have much extra skin on my cheeks or neck, but what's there was flapping.

I even got to drive and didn't hit a wing dam. Slid up to a beach on the way for a few hours and the sand & water were perfect.

Gorgeous day and haven't been on the river since 93 when I was living in LaCrosse. Forgot how beautiful it is out there.


Need to do that again a couple more times before September.
 
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Gurtholfin said:
Spent the day on the Mississippi just north of Dubuque with my buddy's Baja. Cruising speed was 52mph. I've never been on a boat going that fast and it was a pretty fun rush. I don't have much extra skin on my cheeks or neck, but what's there was flapping.

I even got to drive and didn't hit a wing dam. Slid up to a beach on the way for a few hours and the sand & water were perfect.

Gorgeous day and haven't been on the river since 93 when I was living in LaCrosse. Forgot how beautiful it is out there.


Need to do that again a couple more times before September.
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Just being near/in/on the water is great. Watched a sunset happen over Lake Superior at about 9:30pm this weekend, and it wasn't truly dark until about 10pm, if my memory is correct (no, I wasn't all liquored up, at least at that point). It was kind of bizarre. Because of where we were, 8pm pretty much looked like 4pm, if you went by the sun.
 
Gurtholfin said:
Spent the day on the Mississippi just north of Dubuque with my buddy's Baja. Cruising speed was 52mph. I've never been on a boat going that fast and it was a pretty fun rush. I don't have much extra skin on my cheeks or neck, but what's there was flapping.

I even got to drive and didn't hit a wing dam. Slid up to a beach on the way for a few hours and the sand & water were perfect.

Gorgeous day and haven't been on the river since 93 when I was living in LaCrosse. Forgot how beautiful it is out there.


Need to do that again a couple more times before September.
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I haven't been up on that portion of the Mississippi, but I can assure you that the lower half (below Cairo, IL) is pretty underwhelming for scenery.

Hanging out in Houston waiting for dock and/or tank space for our cargo.

Edit: Brent's first sentence. Fact. One of the best things about my job.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Just being near/in/on the water is great. Watched a sunset happen over Lake Superior at about 9:30pm this weekend, and it wasn't truly dark until about 10pm, if my memory is correct (no, I wasn't all liquored up, at least at that point). It was kind of bizarre. Because of where we were, 8pm pretty much looked like 4pm, if you went by the sun.
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Aren't you in the eastern time zone up there?

I wanna say we were watching the sun go down below the horizon in Ontanagon one time at 10:00 pm and thinking it was pretty cool.


Your points about being by the water are truth.

Especially water such as Lake Superior. That is a special place.
 
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Aren't you in the eastern time zone up there?

I wanna say we were watching the sun go down below the horizon in Ontanagon one time at 10:00 pm and thinking it was pretty cool.


Your points about being by the water are truth.

Especially water such as Lake Superior. That is a special place.
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Ya, he would be on the very western end of the eastern time zone. Helps explain the late sunsets.

I get the opposite when we get over by Mobile and towards the eastern part of the Central zone. Very early sunrises.
 
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hockeyplayer1015 said:
I haven't been up on that portion of the Mississippi, but I can assure you that the lower half (below Cairo, IL) is pretty underwhelming for scenery.

Hanging out in Houston waiting for dock and/or tank space for our cargo.

Edit: Brent's first sentence. Fact. One of the best things about my job.
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It's bluffs and ridges and a lot of forested banks. The valley isn't wide like down by St. Louis, which is one of my only reference points south of Dubuque. The bluffs down by Dubuque aren't quite as high as they are upriver (LaCrosse, Trempealeau, Winona), but they're still beautiful.

We were talking today about what it'd be like to take the river all the way down and how cool it would be to see it all. Maybe not so much by your take.

Actually thought of you when we passed a few barges today and thought, "Wouldn't that be something?" Didn't know that you don't come this far up.
 
Re: Rep Retirement Lodge #178: Oh, mookie's dreams...

Gurtholfin said:
Aren't you in the eastern time zone up there?

I wanna say we were watching the sun go down below the horizon in Ontanagon one time at 10:00 pm and thinking it was pretty cool.


Your points about being by the water are truth.

Especially water such as Lake Superior. That is a special place.
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In the eastern time zone, but due to the lay of the land, and the MONSTROUS western viewing range due to the size of the lake...yeah. I took some pics of the sunset, and we were lucky enough to have a ship roll by around that time. Have a pic of the ship centered under a low cloud (due to angle) post-sunset/present-glow. It's really cool.
 
Gurtholfin said:
It's bluffs and ridges and a lot of forested banks. The valley isn't wide like down by St. Louis, which is one of my only reference points south of Dubuque. The bluffs down by Dubuque aren't quite as high as they are upriver (LaCrosse, Trempealeau, Winona), but they're still beautiful.

We were talking today about what it'd be like to take the river all the way down and how cool it would be to see it all. Maybe not so much by your take.

Actually thought of you when we passed a few barges today and thought, "Wouldn't that be something?" Didn't know that you don't come this far up.
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Hah. That would have been really neat.

The lower half of the BigRiver, depending on how high the water is, has lots of sand bars, and a lot of tree lined banks. Outside of the "cities" it runs through (Memphis, Vicksburg, Natchez and then Baton Rouge-New Orleans), there really isn't much other than docks occasionally, fleets of barges wired together along the banks, towboats pushing barges...

That absolutely isn't to say that taking the trip from the mouth to say, New Orleans, wouldn't be extremely special. Every summer there are people who kayak/canoe/boat/even raft down the entire thing. Maybe it's because I grew up on arguably one of the most scenic rivers in the US (St. Lawrence), and also spent a summer on a coal ship on the Great Lakes, but I was a little underwhelmed about "The Mighty Mississipi".
 
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