>>>>Agreed on the SCOTUS.
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>>>>Lately the best weekends are the ones with absolutely no tv, no cell phone, and no computer. They are becoming more frequent as I get older. The best week to 10 days of the year as far as detachment are the ones I spend in a wilderness area in Colorado every fall hunting. we pack in what we can carry. If I could I would relish a move to wilderness Alaska or Montana (if the wife would go for it) and come to town once a month if that much.
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>>>I would highly recommend Alaska. Montana has nothing going for it. Nada. Zilch. :)
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>>Oh, come on, Bruce -- not even the scenery? You know more about it than I do but the pictures I have seen were spectacular.
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>>Here is a site I just googled ---
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>>http://www.bigskyfishing.com/Photo-Gallery/photo_gallery.htm
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>That was meant to be tongue in cheek. Much of Montana's charm derives from the lack of people here. We're the 4th largest state in area but 44th in population, still less than 1 million. Whenever people mention moving to Montana I usually remark on the looooong, coooold winters. It is usually enough to make them think twice. During the real estate boom, there was a large influx from California because house prices were cheap here (comparitively). The local joke was that they (the Californians) typically lasted 15 months, long enough to enjoy 2 summers and 1 long winter.
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>Here is a website put together by a friend of mine
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>http://www.montanapictures.net/

I suspected this was what you were doing. About 20 years ago Oregon was printing maps that showed nothing between California and Washington, hoping those fleeing California would just keep on moving <bg>