I should have said...It "is" about Jimbo.

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Dear Stumpy:

After all the pre-trip ballyhoo is said & done (& I freely admit manufacturing a "tad bit" of that, myself), and we actually launch our SR17 southward out of Stanton Bay, I intend to embrace your original vision.  

We hope to shake a few hands and swap a few stories.  

THEN, my son & I will be heading off to our own separate pursuits elsewhere in the Park.  

My oldest boy is in college these days & I don't get to see him so much, anymore.  We're taking this on as a joint challenge (for "bragging rights", as db recently suggested to me), hoping to have some fun, and then - much later - be in a position to share a few memories when the paddling & portaging doesn't come so easy to me, anymore.

In that respect, I guess, we're probably much the same as anyone else who actually attempts the Bushwhack.  Heck, I'm already hoping to do it AGAIN in five years time.  

Of course, my friend, let's see if I'm still talking THAT way at the end of June '05!

Stumpy, I am most grateful that you have conceived & put this "event" out there.  All of us need "something" to feel energetic about.  I think it's pretty darn neat that so many like-minded folks have picked this same "something" to be excited about, regardless of whether or not they actually attend.  For Pete's Sake, there will be well over 10,000 hits on this thread by the time it is all said & done!!  Can you believe it??

Even if my party never finds Stumpy Pond, you have already given my boy & I that "something-to-get-excited-about" for THIS year.  We ARE having lots of fun with it & look forward to meeting a few other folks feeling much the same way.

I have no expectations of anyone EXCEPT myself for this event.  I seek a feeling of accomplishment as well as some fun for my boy & myself.  In that sense I suppose, the selfish pleasure I/we call "Jamboree" really IS all about me.

Thanks, again...

Jimbo   8)