I Only Came Back Because I Had To

As was noted in comments a couple of weeks ago, a little away-time is never a bad idea.

So I decided to just up and go.

The picture above, from the Lake Tahoe basin, is but one of the reasons I'm not leaving the state, the more so after a couple of weeks of solitude, unplugged, and walking around in the better parts of it.

Nor giving up one square foot of it to the communist twerps who think it's theirs, and not ours. (Although I am willing to make you a reasonable long-term lease deal on certain parts of Libtardia-By-The-Bay.)

My feet are sore, my back has new muscles, also freshly sore, but a bit larger with the exercise, and a few more kinks have been worked out of the last-ditch two-feet-and-a-GOOD-Bag Ultimate Contingency Plan.

Oh, and nothing tastes better than fresh-caught trout and panfish, I'm telling you.

Sadly, longer commitments than mere enjoyment commanded I had to eventually come back to somewhere behind the Orange Curtain.

If you haven't done something similar yet this summer, I highly recommend it.

And my sincere thanks for the concerns in comments to the prior post, up now these last two weeks.

Regular posting will resume momentarily.

Subliminal dinner suggestion: