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...The Outlaw Land and Cattle Company. Here is their website:
www.nbarranch.com
It is in the Gila high country near Silver City, New Mexico. I spent a week there in 1997 and it was an exhilarating experience. No trail rides or guides, and there is NO pampering (read “you’ll be using outhouses”). Every day you will be taking your horse and just “heading thataway” on your own. Be sure to be back by supper and try not to die. Or you can move cattle (which is what I did). That’s eight hours a day in the saddle, and you are WORKING. The place is going to set you back some bucks (it is about twelve hundred dollars a head now) but I promise you that it is worth it COMPLETELY. And I cannot even begin to describe how achingly beautiful the scenery is. Just check out the website and trust me.
ChristopherDundy's Life List
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1. make 2006 the best year of my life
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2. Make my life completely frictionless
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3. say no
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4. Underpromise and Overdeliver
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5. Watch every episode of "The West Wing" in order
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6. Create a Life Plan
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7. construct a family emergency kit and put it where I'll find it when I need it
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8. Save more, spend less
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9. Write something. Anything. Sentence. Paragraph. Short Story. Novel. Epic. Anything.
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10. scan all my old photographs
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11. actually learn to play my guitar
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12. Work at a Debate Camp for junior high or high school kids
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13. Volunteer to tutor adult literacy
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14. Sail around the world
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15. receive a letter from Hogwarts apologizing for the late owl but informing me that i am actually a wizard.
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16. sing in a barbershop quartet
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17. Create a Family Crest or Coat of Arms
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18. Build my Dream House over a remodeled missile silo
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19. Live my life over again, but with all the knowledge I have now
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20. learn how to rebuild an engine
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Nothing could be simpler than learning to read Korean. It’ll take you 90 minutes or less to learn the letters with a teacher, and maybe a little longer (though not much) if you are bumping around on your own. But it is quite a thrill when you can finally decipher something in an entirely different alphabet.
Speaking is also a blast because you are interacting with the locals on their turf. And though I am by no means fluent, I can get around in most situations. This a reasonably easy language to learn, so give it a try, if only just to keep the old mental juices flowing.
This was a Christmas present from my father when I was fourteen. I was certified in Whittier, Alaska, and my first open water dive was in a Viking drysuit. As far as I know, I was the first of my friends (by a large margin) to do this, and I felt like I had some cool points as a result.
Do it, do it, do it!
