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Originally Posted by Paul Ehlers
The southern has always been on my want list of things to do, but it seems there is always some sort of priority conflict with making it happen.
Back when I was working. I only had a few weeks of vacation time and had to make the decisions between taking a week to travel to Sanford or spend that money & time to have a week with my dogs & buddies chasing upland birds in the Dakotas or Montana. Then for years I was in group who shared a block of tables at the spring Tulsa show & it was to close in schedule to the spring southern that attending it fell down the priority list between the two passions.
The trade-off was, I still walked & talked the Parker life and have no regrets about the decisions I made.
Now that I'm retired, there is always something that prevents me from dedicating the time & money to justify making the trip from Denver to the east coast due to some family issues with taking care of my 95yr old mother.
Who knows--Maybe someday you'll see my ugly mug in Sanford. I know I'd sure like to shake some hands and put some faces to names in this great group of Parker people!
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You mention when you were working you only had a few weeks off. My dilemma as well. My wife and I only get three weeks off a year. Of course, I could make one of those weeks the Southern. Except my wife wouldn’t go for it, as she would be bored there plus that leaves less time off to do other things that both of us enjoy.
Retirement can’t come soon enough!
I should state that I don’t know why I would somehow miraculously have this career that would allow me to do whatever I wanted to when I wanted to as everyone in my family sure worked long hours for many years. For me, the concept of a second home for vacations and the time to do all that is a most foreign concept, among other things.