I really enjoyed the podcast Destry. I’m not as traveled as you but we were cut from the same cloth. I was born in the early 50’s and spent my youth and later years going to flea markets and yard sales picking up treasures and trinkets from years gone by and it made me feel a part of those wonderous times that made the common man a true pioneer of the American way. I was raised in Fort Worth but spent my summers at my cousin’s place in west Texas between the towns of Vincent and Big Spring. His dad (my uncle) was a dry land cotton farmer so there was plenty of land for us boys to hunt quail, dove, rabbits, rattlesnakes, coyotes and occasionally jump ducks off the stock tanks. It was a way of life that instilled in me a sense of adventure and the understanding of the way of life that I wanted to pass on to my children in later years. My family of two boys and two daughters and their spouses still return to my cousin’s place every year to visit and hunt. And hopefully my grandchildren will carry on the tradition.
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