Tuesday, July 5, 2016

The Bison

We gone-done it. We bought a 25-year-old recreational vehicle that hemorrhaged water, has a hole in the driver's door, occasionally responds to the steering wheel, has a turning radius the size of a roundabout, and it's pocked with hail damage. And dammit, we're psyched. 

The Bison has a big ol' diesel engine, off-road tires, ground clearance and four-wheel drive. Its cooks, warms, cools, chills food, handles poo, showers us, provides drinking water, and rests us. It's bear safe, lightning safe, energy independent (soon) and the stereo jay-ums. And now that its problems have been remedied, it's where you'll find us.


We had a chance to try it out this past weekend and it was everything we'd hoped. A beautiful omen, in the form of a big-eyed, kype-jawed golden trout, gave us reassurance that we're moving in the right direction. 

Kudos to my wife Elizabeth for landing this incredible golden trout. 

Rambling soon, through public lands near you...

5 comments:

jason said...

make sure it wanders down pinedale way sometime soon.

Josh Bergan said...

It's on our short list, though I don't know if it'll happen this summer. Definitely next summer.

Josh Bergan said...

[WHOOPS, I accidentally deleted a comment]. "I believe your golden trout is a cutthroat trout."

Josh Bergan said...
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Josh Bergan said...

And you might be right, except for the fact that it had no slashes at all under its gills. My best guess is golden or gold-cutt combo, this lake had both.