july recap

brookie haven in SW montana

its been a very long time since i updated this thing...its been an extremely busy month to say the least. a couple major things happened during the last few weeks. in no particular order they are:

1. i have a new girlfriend
2. my truck had its catalytic convertor stolen
3. i put on 42 hours of driving in one week
4. i got plenty of fishing done
5. today i turned 26 years old
6. i drew an antelope permit

so to summarize point one, i met a girl named emily at manhattan convention. we hit it off and i went down to cody wyoming to see her last weekend. we made it official and have been dating for a week? shes 21 and a WY native. thats all the dirt i will give out right now.

before i went out to see emily i was going to be working in spokane. i was going to drive my truck from spokane to see her. before the spokane trip i took my truck in for a tune up. during the night at the shop someone cut off the catalytic convertor. apparantly they have about $200 salvage value. this meant i couldn't drive my truck to spokane. i would have to drive the work truck out there and return to seattle to get my truck before driving to WY. on the way to spokane one of the other trucks broke down, then we got a flat on the trailer. after the spokane installation i returned to seattle, slept for 8 hours then began my drive to missoula, slept some more at logan and elissa's, then finished my trek to WY. All told i had 42 hours behind the wheel in six days!!

after the cody weekend i returned to bozeman to do some fishing with the buckingham boys. we had a sucessful trip, with plenty of brookies caught by all. i will be finishing out the fishing tomorrow with a float on the yellowstone with joel in our new co-owned drift boat.

i turned 26 today, not sure what to think that. lastly i drew an either-sex antelope permit north of ennis, it should be a sucessful hunt! that does it for now, thanks for checking in on me!

emily and i