Not Boring

 Almost every day we have happy hour.  The trail crew sits in the sun and has a beer, a glass of wine, or maybe a non alcoholic beer.  Sometimes Bill happens by and joins the gang. Bill is a classic. One great thing about our lifestyle are the people we meet.  The people who move about are interesting. They are not stuck in the mud knitters. Bill has done so many different things and is like so many around here, they do not hesitate to take off in a different direction.  Bill does not strike one as a cook, but somehow it came up in the conversation.  Kadizzle asked Bill how he became a cook.  Bill explained his sister ran a hotel and the cook quit.  Bill instantly became a cook for his sister.  Bill, like so many interesting people, has a long list of the different things he has done.  A lot of these people are divorced.  You can see why they just cannot settle down.  That also means we have met a lot of ex drinkers.  Bill lived in a tent for five years, was a machinist, did scuba diving, and of course wandered all over the country doing what ever happened to interest him.  Life is too short to spend all your time in one occupation or sitting in the same chair.  For some reason this makes me think of Darch.  Darch packed up sixty pounds of stuff and asked us to drive him out to the Ma Da Hey trail with his bike.  He biked 125 miles in some rugged country in the badlands by himself in three days.  Darch is 75.  There is an old lady in her 80 that we rafted with years ago. She is still taking raft trips down the colorado.  She raises money for the Sierra Club.  We asked Bill about Jim and his family. Jim volunteered here and had planned to go live on the beach in Mexico this year, but the virus ruined that plan. Jim and his wife homesteaded in a wonderful spot in British Columbia.