But Jim - you've taken most of the financial work on yourself and giving everyone else the benefit of your research. I've never seen anyone with the number of stoves you have in your arsenal. What you need to do is find a way to get some royalties from all your reviews!
Yeah, maybe someday people will pay me for my writing. Until then, I've at least made something of a name for myself.
It was kind of fun recently. I was talking to a ranger at a ranger station. I forget how it came up exactly, but he asked if I posted online. I said something like, "yes, under the name hikin_jim." He looked at me kind of funny and said "
you're hiking Jim?" He was kind of impressed based on his tone of voice (I had also just showed him on a topo map all of the errors in his area; he knew enough about his area that he knew I was right). At least
somebody thinks I know something. lol.
HJ