Nice going Rakkasan

If your not 10 minutes early your 10 minutes late

^^^ around Busse kin that's true.

Sigh...missed another. Just sitting around writhing in pain, waiting for the meds to kick in. This would probably have been more fun

Should NOT have spent the afternoon wrestling a chainsaw trying to cut targets for my KDSH and cleaning my parents basement...

Well it is now a new day, and I have read all 13 pages of the S&T. Great stuff. Sure wish I could have chimed in, but someone has to make the Donuts, and that means sleeping while others are awake. Such is my life, At least for another 3 1/2 years!

Vacation? I've been to the Smoky Mountains now 3 times total and the Rockies about the same. Which ones I like best? It's kinda a toss up, the Rockies are of course more Majestic, but the Smoky Mts are probably my fav, Specially since the last two times I've seen them was with Patty.

One year when I was a wee lad of about 10 or 11 We were visiting Yellowstone Park. Now this mind you, was when you could virtually drive up to Old Faithful (less than 100 yards).

Ok, so we had camped out in one of the many campgrounds and It just so happened that there was a bear across the road. Well Dad grabbed the ever popular Bell and Howell 8mm movie camera and begin to film said bear after crossing the road to the "Bear side" . He was of course zoomed in to get the "Best" shots of the bear and all of a sudden noticed that the bear appeared VERY close. When he lowered the camera from his eye the bear was about 10 feet away. He of course got quite concerned and looked around for me as I had been standing beside him.

Well I, being the observant child that I was, had seen the bear coming toward us and whispered to Dad (so as not to startle the bear) that the bear was headed toward us had quietly (once again so as to not startle the bear) ran to the other side of the road and was observing the whole situation from about 50 or 60 feet away.

Dad, at the time, apparently not appearing to appetizing (he was about 5ft 9in tall and weighing about 135 pounds)safely made it to MY side of the road without incident after dodging several cars that were SLOWLY going by.

Dad then went on to explain to me the importance of telling him LOUDLY that a bear was about to eat him.

Oh and Did I say that we had a snowball fight that year IN JULY!

It's a shame we have to grow up.

I know I didn't officially make it to the Sip & Talk, but this is my small contribution. I hope you enjoyed it.

Great story. You tried to tell him but those old super 8 cameras are pretty loud while in use.

We had a similar encounter with bears and Dad with a camera in the Smokies when I was quite young. I suspect it happens more often than one would think.

... And not many may live to tell the story. I recently read about people taking photos at Yosemite next to the bison. After that bull story that I posted, I can guarantee that I have a great respect for anything big that has horns - especially on four big tires.

I got car sick driving up to Cades Cove. That windy road is horrible if your a passenger and I never get car sick, but I sure did driving up that road.

We loved the windy twisty road from Gatlinburg to Cades Cove, and Patty DOES get car sick. Strangely enough though she didn't get sick one single time.

We have never been to Cades Cove, but some of the roads here in Missouri are enough to make you sick!

Yeah, I felt very nauseous. If I ever go up to Cades Cove again I'm going to take some dramamine.