Vacation!!!

**gringo220** · 07-12-2008, 10:54 PM

Well it's finally time for my first vacation in two years. Me and a friend of mine are venturing out to Wyoming for quite the trip. Were going hiking for 8 days with only our knives,canteens,lighter and the clothes on our backs. I've done quite a bit of hiking before but never to this extent. I've always had a tent and food and a sleeping bag etc. This time the rules are a little different. We can only take what's in our knives the clothes we're going to wear and one lighter each. The lighter is for last resort though because we're going to try to start a fire with a bow drill first. There's no food,sleeping bag,tent,cooking stuff or any other connivence of normal day life. We have to live off what we catch in the lakes and rivers and the animals we trap. Our knives have about 10 feet of fishing line and some hooks and about 15 feet of rope around the case. Other than that we have to boil our own water and catch and collect fish,animals and plants to eat. never the less we're going to be hungry. But hey it's a good cutting diet.

We're flying out on tuesday and not coming back until the friday the next week. I think it will be a fun experience. We're taking cameras and video recorders with us so we can look back on it in the future. Some people say it's crazy but I say why live the same monotonous life every day for the rest of it. Change it up every now and then and challenge yourself.

**mitbar** · 07-12-2008, 11:04 PM

sounds like a blast man just be safe and come back in one piece.

**under construction** · 07-13-2008, 12:10 AM

have fun bro.

**gringo220** · 07-13-2008, 12:45 AM

Thanks guys! And mitbar, the plan is to come back in one piece but all I can do is hope it goes that way!

**chrispghmuscle** · 07-13-2008, 08:15 AM

Gringo and friend vs. the wild.. I smell the history channel mini-series calling you.. Oh wait.. you don't have a phone with you..

Sounds like my old scouting days...only to the Extreme..

Have fun, enjoy yourself, see you when your Ripped..lol..

Chris

**Freak** · 07-13-2008, 09:15 AM

Chris you are hilarious and Gringo you are crazy.

Sounds like a vacation...... LOL! I guess your time to relax will be the plane ride. You should keep a journal. Have fun and hope to see you posting here again.

**chrispghmuscle** · 07-13-2008, 09:20 AM

^^^It's been a fun morning here at work.. Crazy as all hell from last nights system changes.. But fun none the less.. Turnover was a complete upside down mess and a half.

First thing I thought of was Les Stroud, then Man vs. Wild. Now we have our very own Gringo & Friend.. Discovery Channel Mini Series..

With no--C'mon get in the plane.. we will take you back to the hotel, let you rest up a bit... then bring you back in the morning bullschit..

Gringo & Friend is Real-life experience..

Chris

**gringo220** · 07-13-2008, 12:01 PM

HAha Yeah a lot of people relate it to the shows on tv. I actually look up to a guy named tom brown. he's by far the godfather of wilderness survival. He teaches classes on how to survive and anything else in the wilderness. he's known for his tracking skills. the government calls him to track high profile people when they break out of custody. He can actually track a deer from a jeep doing 30mph. He knows what way you are going to go 10 foot steps away while he's tracking you. He learned from his friends great grandfather who was an indian tracker. And freak I plan on keeping a journal for all the stuff we don't get on film or pictures.

**chrispghmuscle** · 07-13-2008, 12:05 PM

^^^ dammmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

**Freak** · 07-13-2008, 03:46 PM

Have you taken any classes with Tom Brown? Your next vacation you should go with him and have him teach you some of the stuff he knows.

**gringo220** · 07-13-2008, 10:28 PM

No I haven't yet but I have 2 friends that have. I think that is next years vacation though. I've always been into that kind of stuff and the more I learn the more fun I have. the ine class my friend was in there was a guy that asked tom "If I were in the middle of the woods, how would I know how to get out". Tom brown looked at him and said" Now why would you want to do that?". That's the way I like to look at myself. I love being in the mountains where there's nothing but peaceful things and not chaos of the everyday life. People ask me why I like putting on a 30# back pack and walking in the middle of no where? I ask them if they've been in an airplane before ans most of the time it's yes. I ask them if they've ever flown over mountains before and wanted to be down in them and most of the time they say yes. And I tell them that I'm the guy that's down there giving them the finger as they fly over! It's something I have always liked and I will go hiking until my body will not let me anymore.