db wrote on Nov 4^th, 2013 at 7:26am:

I understood how sorely out of my eliminate and unprepared I was.

My eliminate?  ;D

I was serious. I just couldn't throw away the good with the bad. I will freely admit however if it's nasty and I'm still smiling knowing how miserable I could be for a mistake like element/eliminate, I do grin a bit more. I never go looking for challenges I don't have a little experience with on vacation though.

I use to experiment on the first trip when I did two a year but these days I only get the one. Weather and Ma Nature are always the biggest variables currently. Ain't nothen better than lucky.