I’m leaving all this behind for a week and journeying to Wyoming, where some friends and I will head o
ut on horseback into the mountains. We’ll be out there six days – camping and eating food that I’m assured will be better than dried beans and grill Spam. I’m no stranger to minimalist camping, although I may sneak a box of wine into my saddlebag. What does give me heart palpitations is that there will be no cell service or place to plug in my laptop.
The draft of Angel of Chaos is coming together, and I’m thrilled with how this book is turning out. My trip will give me some extra time to mull things over in this novel, and research a paranormal romance I hope to write around the end of the year.
Expect a blogpost with some beautiful pictures when I return. If I return. I’m told the outfitter is supplying us with bear repellent. I’m hoping they also supply us with rifles, because I can’t imagine bear mace doing anything besides pissing an 800 pound Grizzly off.
Happy Trails!
Leiah
I am soooo jealous!!! Have a wonderful time!
Leiah
sandy l
Oh – one piece of advice: If you can, avoid shooting off bear spray upwind no matter now mild the breeze, and do NOT point it angled at the ground at all. It will all come back to you.
Don’t know about the bear, but it dropped my husband, and he didn’t come out until AFTER I made a “test spray.”
sandy l
Happy Trails to you! Sounds like a fun trip.
We’ve gone to the Tetons/Yellowstone several times. One horseback trip (day only) in the Tetons, the guide wore bear spray (as everybody does locally), had a shotgun on his saddle on one side and a saw on the other side.
He had to use the saw, as we came across a tree across the path up a mountain. He whistled and made a good bit of noise, so we didn’t surprise any bears, although there was plenty of evidence they were in the area. (These were outfitters for elk hunting, but the two of us got a casual ride just before the hunting parties arrived.)
You’ll have plenty of inspiration for another book, no doubt; looking forward to that.