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How are the roads out that way? If I can get myself motivated to go (little hard under the circumstances), will just have my stock F250

Some great points made. I think we can and should always be trying to improve. That does not mean we need to be unhappy in anyway with how our life is now. And while it isn't easy, as we learn to be happy for others who may have something we wish for ourselves, that seems to help avoid the...

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Playing against my kids' friends in adult soccer league and playing Tuesday night basketball at the church against guys younger than my kids.

Thanks, appreciate it.

Side bar to my post in the mental health thread. I have a West Desert West unit deer tag and was planning on hunting with my cousin who died over the weekend. He lived in Ibapah, knows the area and has private land contacts so he was planning my hunt. So, now I am two weeks before tge hunt...

Hard reminder today of the intersection between mental health and head trauma. Learned a cousin took his life over the weekend. They are attributing it to possible CTE from years of head trauma made worse with injuries this past year (he has been competing in rodeo for something like 35...

Also toured the Ice Hotel, but decided against $1,000 night to stay there. Some of the ice sculpture was cool, some creepy. Following day was a beautiful trail ride on sure footed Icelandic Horses.

We then flew back above the Arctic Circle to the town of Kiruna where I had a conference on sled dog medicine. Interesting city. It basically exists because of an underground iron mine. Because of the mine, the city is sinking and neighborhood by neighborhood is being torn down and rebuilt...

Flew back to Oslo, one night at a lake side town an hour north of the airport then flew to Stockholm for one day. The Old City area of Stockholm is beautiful.

Most important part of that stop was an evening swim in the Arctic Ocean. Was after sunset, water temp 41, air low 30s with stiff breeze. The walk to and from the water (100 yards or so) was colder than the swim. We also had to have an armed guard with us because of polar bears. Note, don't...

We then flew to Longyearbyen, Svalbard. About half the distance between mainland Norway and the North Pole at almost 79 degrees latitude. Very unique in that is part of Norway but governed by international treaty that allows anyone to live and work there visa free. No Norwegian taxes paid but...

Quick summary of our trip to Scandinavia. First stop was 2 nights in Oslo. By staying near the harbor the only public transport we needed was the ferry to the Fram Museum. Everything else easily walkable. Oslo Opera House is cool building as roof slopes to the ground and is encouraged to...

Somewhere in Northern Sweden....

Some Swedish views from the saddle.

One of the reasons I love the far north. (Edit: risk of 2 am posting is put things in the wrong thread.)

Visiting a reindeer farm in northern Sweden.