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#279400 - 02/06/16 02:22 PM Re: Just For Fun [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
hikermor Offline
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Registered: 08/26/06
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Loc: southern Cal
That there place was afore my time (1946-1953). I did get a bit of a nature fix by wandering through a branch of Turtle Creek which ran through the neighborhood. Come to think of it, that area featured rocks (and some climbing) and fossils. Some things never change.
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#279401 - 02/06/16 08:45 PM Re: Just For Fun [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
gonewiththewind Offline
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Registered: 10/14/08
Posts: 1517
The outdoors is really the only peaceful time I know. I have spent most of my life outdoors, for various reasons, and I continue to spend as much time as can out there. It doesn't matter where or what the environment is, I just love being out there and away from civilization. I think I would have been happy as a mountain man a couple of centuries ago.

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#279403 - 02/06/16 09:36 PM Re: Just For Fun [Re: hikermor]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Registered: 11/13/06
Posts: 2946
Loc: Nacogdoches, Texas
For a person who wants to experience the wilderness in Dallas, there are areas along the Trinity River not suitable for construction so the land remains undeveloped.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#279405 - 02/07/16 05:00 AM Re: Just For Fun [Re: gonewiththewind]
benjammin Offline
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Registered: 02/06/04
Posts: 4020
Loc: Anchorage AK
Away from the things of man.

Having a Jeremiah Johnson moment here.

Yoda on Degobah, before Luke came.

Robinson friggin' Carusoe, before Friday.

Lieutenant Dunbar dancing around a bonfire in front of a sod house.

Castaway.

Just gotta be alone, in the element, in the moment, once in a while.
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#279414 - 02/08/16 02:01 AM Re: Just For Fun [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
hikermor Offline
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Posts: 7705
Loc: southern Cal
It is surprising to see 'wilderness" and "Dallas" in the same sentence. By a good many standards, a strip of undeveloped, still more or less vegetated strip of bottom land surrounded by dense urbanization hardly qualifies.

When I think of wilderness,I have something in mind like the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico, over 550,000 acres in extent. I have spent a fair amount of time there and I would be willing to spend more. The Gila offers solitude, plenty of space, beautiful country, and plenty of room to roam, and those are the essential attributes of wild country.
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#279436 - 02/09/16 04:46 PM Re: Just For Fun [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
jshannon Offline
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Registered: 02/02/03
Posts: 647
Loc: North Texas
Big Bend Ranch State Park, TX- the Solitario area is called "The Other Side of Nowhere"...lol

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