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Originally Posted by kingericthe7th
This is pretty obvious from your writing, you seem to have learnt the entire desert survival guide in 6 days so far; are you like some Bear Grylls/Rambo love child?! (This isn't me raising doubts - It's training you never forgot a word of/have researched later/taken writers licence with/w/e)
The quickest 7 pages I've ever read on here, despite there being x10 the average amount of words, expertly written, you write brilliantly.
You were pretty harsh on the guy that raised authenticity concerns, after all this time, and all the times you've told the story you must have encountered some doubters? If not your friends are more polite than mine! I was once interviewed by MI5, after a lead passed from the FBI that I could be a potential terrorist threat; and no one I told believed me. NB I'm not a terrorist.
I hope your dogs OK.
Yes, I totally agree that I was too harsh on him. I do get too emotional at times, especially over the dog. (Buster's doing well, thanks) I will find a way to make up to the guy for it...
The desert story I've told many times as a lecture series for 6th graders before they went to Outdoor Lab, a "soft" mountain experience offered by my school district. We did tracking, plant identification, tools and lots of other things while spending a week in the mountains. It was the culminating event for Life Science and Native American units that they had taken over the years. Of course, we had food and cabins while up there. (I went several times in the Winter, but wow, that survival would be hard!). My trip was a little bit of setting the stage, to make them feel like they were really surviving.
I also used it as "filler" for odd times teaching Middle School, there are plenty of those, lol. They seemed to like it. Thanks for the kudos on my writing, sometimes I think it's kind of sing/songy (!?) and weird sounding to my ears.
As far as the Bundy story, that was only to adults, but IRL I am VERY daunting and no one would ever question me, lol. I think that's the weirdest thing for me, because I'm on 2+2 getting used to things that are unlike anything I've ever experienced before. (And my friends and family think I'm nuts for being online at all.) I was an educator, a business owner and a martial artist, so it was pretty much yes sir/no sir my whole life.