Thank you so much, for everything.

Oh thank you Vicki! As for cameras, only DSLR with a lens to go with it. Hopefully newer as in from the last 5 years, but we’re open to anything. Laptops also! I’ll send you a mailing address should you have anything to send – just email! 🙂

Freedom, at the most personal of levels… mine… has been a wonderful gift my whole life. Other than not being able to walk nude into most coffee shops (I wouldn’t anyway…;-)), I really have not felt denied any sense of freedom of movement throughout most of the United States and Canada. When I am rightly denied freedom of movement onto an individual’s or corporation’s private property I sometimes feel saddened because the lands I would most like access to are some very beautiful and remote landscapes – expansive range lands and forests. But I am also heartened that we citizens of this great land are the guardians to our national heritage of public lands were all are welcome… with rules, of course, designed to protect those treasured lands that many of us wish to visit and enjoy. I’ll take public land use management visitor rules any day over signs saying “Private Property. No Trespassing.” So, in the end, my “lack of freedom” to encroach upon another’s private property is a very minor nuisance when compared to the wonderful freedom to explore and enjoy almost all of these United States… also without fear of harm in most situations.

Almost daily I sense the lack of even this most basic of freedoms… that of unrestricted movement… that many people in many parts of our world will never experience and I’m saddened for them and their situtions. Add to it, tribal and national conflicts, human traffiking, economic poverty,etc and it’s difficult for me to fathom how anyone could live in those conditions, and even more how could anyone ever impose those conditions upon others.

While we discuss real, to us, inhibitions to our personal freedoms, even the worst of conditions we experience will most likely be better than the best of conditions millions of others will ever see. I’m happy for me… us…. and saddened for so many others in this world.

I’ve also enjoyed the freedom of expression and free choice, and I greatly appreciate that. Starting with my parents who always supported my interests without ever telling me what/who I needed to be, and now into the gracefully greyed hair stage of life I have always had, and appreciated, the freedom to determine my own destiny. As with what I’ve written above, I treasure this freedom, wish it for all and am saddened for those who will never taste this most precious of gifts.

2nd, What kind of cameras are you looking for? I will see if any of the board members have any. Just DSLRs? SLRs? Pocket cameras? Also, if I collect any, how do I get them to you?

Sounds like it is time to get a little drone to follow you. 😉
And everything is better with peanut butter! LOL

It’s funny, it wasn’t a HUGE mountain, but it it was steep. And trying to film myself at the same time proved…troublesome 😀 haha! I loved it though. Peanut powder?! Never considered that! On it!