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Not a bad story at all. They asked me where the North Pole was and after trying to explain it, I just lead them over there. Glad it worked out that way. Eli

I don't worry about them getting jacked, I wear hearing aids. I do worry about getting tossed into swimming pools which actually happened. Guy couldn't believe I wanted 7K after his idea of a joke, I got it or more correctly my attorney did. I worry about losing one which also happened, that time I got to pay. I worry I didn't zip up the pocket of my jacket and they are missing at Dumont or in the middle of the road. I worry about lakes, hot tubs, hot springs and rattlesnakes. A friend let me walk up on one he was sure I could hear. I didn't. Now there's some really fun chit. Ever start a haircut by "look we have to get this straight before hand because I won't be able to hear what you are asking or see what you are doing?" Then you seat there and hope they get it straight. Fortunately I don't have much hair left for them to screw up. Try taking your hearing aids out, puting them away, taking your glasses off, putting your helmet on, replacing the glasses then the wife wants to say something AFTER you start the motorcycle. Hearing what she says about the pretty red rocks at Logandale in the RZR.... priceless. She still claims I'm not hard of hearing. She says I just have very selective hearing. I'm not trying to be an I just want you to know what an expensive pain in the hearing loss can be. If those that chose to "blast on" learn something fine...if not.....not my bad. Eli I'm not ignoring you. I'm hard of hearing and can't hear you. If you'll turn it down and face me when you speak I'll be glad to either do a better job of ignoring you or tell you exactly what I think of your sorry

Blast on. I'll bet my "system" cost a heck of alot more than yours. Try $3500 an ear. Most of time not covered by insurance. Only good thing about my "system" they come with off switches. I turn them off and laugh my off at people like you. After 30 years in the entertainment business I got well paid to listen to all kinds of chit although in hindsight I should have spent more of it on ear pugs. You on the other hand are paying to trash your own hearing. Your next high dollar system can be found in the yellow pages under hearing aids. Eli

You know you might just be right about the California transplants, the number of expired CA plates in Vegas employee parking lots is unreal. I'm not sure that loaded firearms are ever permitted in Death Valley National Park or that there ever is a season for hunting or shooting there. I'm not even sure that there isn't California license for glass bottles. I am sure that firing a rife that is illegal in CA, accross flat county, without a backstop, and toward me and the homes, farms and ranchs of Amaragosa is stupid and could be deadly. In Vegas when feeling undergunned and not well re-enforced, I head the other way but I don't worry about it. I don't worry when camping in the Nevada desert even when that crazy was running around the Nevada desert. Seems to me he was caught and shot himself close to Dumont. When I have to go to certain sections of LA I worry. Sometimes in the CA desert I worry about the guys coming up on my camp in the middle of night. Not that I won't be able to protect myself but that by doing so I'm going to be playing who dropped the soap in the shower with Bubba. Not all Californians, believe "it's the guns" but CA gun laws don't make any sense and at least in theory they were passed by Californians. The gang population in Las Vegas out numbers the total number of carry permits in the entine state of Nevada and Metro generally opposes anything that comes up in Carson City with regard to carry permits. For what it's worth that doesn't make sense to me either. There is NO RECIPROCITY in Nevada with any other state although Nevada has just passed a law to start looking into it. Wonder how long that's gonna take? Eli

Don't you just love CA! Just keep repeating it's the guns. I was out camping in desert (not at Dumont but not far qway) with a friend when I noticed a .45 under his vest. I asked him about it as I thought carrying concealed in CA was next to impossible. He just laughed and said not if you contribute to the right re-election campain. Shouldn't have surprised me wasn't that guy that ran in Clark County a reserve deputy something or other from CA? Another time I was following the T&T grade on the Nevada side up by Leeland (by Big Dune) hearing several gunshots I found myself down range of a carload of teenagers. I got out of there, found cover and got out the scope. I ain't saying attached to what. CA plates and they were wearing the same color dew rags. Up there things are a bit different. If you are west of the grade shooting at bottles on the grade you happen to be in a National Park but God forbid I get caught in one with a firearm. Had lunch at Longstreet's and told a Nye County leo about it. He said it happened all the time, the bangers like to come to Nevada to get their pactice in. Feeling undergunned and not well re-enforced he generally headed the other way when he came across them. Can't say I blame him but for a second I did have other thoughts. Remember in CA it's the guns that are bad. Eli

Don't even think about it. If you are west of the T&T grade you are endangering people like me that like to follow that grade. If you are east of it you are in wilderness. Eli

That would be about 2002. I invited Barstow BLM to speak at a Railroad History Symposium I organized. They told us all about all the plans they had for Sperry including a trail head, toilets, parking area, and historical signage. Later they invited me to present on the T&T Railroad at Dumont Public Lands Day. Later that day I drove up to Sperry to find it posted as wilderness. On my way up there I ran into the guy that was then the head of the Barstow office. He asked me where I could find one of his crews building a fence. HE DIDN'T KNOW! Surprise Surprise one of the head Tree Huggers was sitting in the seat next to him. I returned and asked the BLM WTF. They said Sperry was wilderness. When I pointed out the wilderness was on the east side of the railroad grade not the west. They said they were protecting the remains of the adobe section house which was nothing but a pile of white mud at the time. Anybody ever b*tch about the Tecopa ACEC that moved three miles to the south? They claimed that they had to turn traffic up Western Talac and built another of their famous fences. So now if you want to hike the canyon add three miles to that hike unless you are that tree hugger then you just have to ask head of the Barstow BLM to give you a ride. I'll be there Thankgiving weekend and intend to follow as much of the grade as possible. Provided I don't have to take the moron that intends to shoot east of the dunes back to the leo's. He'll be the one tied to my hitch and either running to keep up or dragging. Eli

Just to be clear I paid $25 for a OHV Sticker Eli

Then I got ripped off last week I paid $25 for mine. Eli