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Good afternoon all. I have been living in California the last 4 years, 4 months, 19 days, 16 hours, and 35ish minutes. I am excited to announce that I will be departing this...interesting place in about 2 weeks time. I am finally coming home to Texas. I can't begin to express my elation.

Congratulations and welcome home.

Congrats!

Welcome home!

Welcome back, but make sure their craziness did not infect you while there. We don't need any more as we already have enough of them in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

Congratulations. I remember coming back to Texas in 2010 after "retiring" from the USAF. I can only imagine how big the difference will be now.

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:01 pm Good afternoon all. I have been living in California the last 4 years, 4 months, 19 days, 16 hours, and 35ish minutes. I am excited to announce that I will be departing this...interesting place in about 2 weeks time. I am finally coming home to Texas. I can't begin to express my elation.

Assuming you’re driving back, I want you to do the following things:

1. Have your carry pistol of choice already accessible, cased up, in the trunk of your car.
2. Have magazines and ammo for that gun boxed up in the trunk.
3. Have your preferred holster for that gun in your center console or glove box.
4. THE VERY MINUTE you cross the Colorado river into Arizona, pull over at the first available rest stop.
5. Put that holster on your belt. Get the gun and loaded magazines out of the trunk, and get strapped.
6. Take a BIG breath of the air of liberty and savor the moment.
7. Then carry on and get on home.

That has been my ritual every time I’ve returned from having had to go back to the police state for family reasons.

The Annoyed Man wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 7:12 pm

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:01 pm Good afternoon all. I have been living in California the last 4 years, 4 months, 19 days, 16 hours, and 35ish minutes. I am excited to announce that I will be departing this...interesting place in about 2 weeks time. I am finally coming home to Texas. I can't begin to express my elation.

Assuming you’re driving back, I want you to do the following things:

1. Have your carry pistol of choice already accessible, cased up, in the trunk of your car.
2. Have magazines and ammo for that gun boxed up in the trunk.
3. Have your preferred holster for that gun in your center console or glove box.
4. THE VERY MINUTE you cross the Colorado river into Arizona, pull over at the first available rest stop.
5. Put that holster on your belt. Get the gun and loaded magazines out of the trunk, and get strapped.
6. Take a BIG breath of the air of liberty and savor the moment.
7. Then carry on and get on home.

That has been my ritual every time I’ve returned from having had to go back to the police state for family reasons.

I appreciate the advice TAM...I'm going to head to Vegas my first night via Highway 178 (I like the less populated routes). The second I cross the boarder, I plan to strap up and take a photo op with the welcome to Nevada sign :)

AF-Odin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:37 pm Welcome back, but make sure their craziness did not infect you while there. We don't need any more as we already have enough of them in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

I understand your concern. Lets just say I didn't make many friend here. Most of the apparel I wore here was met with open hostility.

Welcome back!

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:22 pm

AF-Odin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:37 pm Welcome back, but make sure their craziness did not infect you while there. We don't need any more as we already have enough of them in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

I understand your concern. Lets just say I didn't make many friend here. Most of the apparel I wore here was met with open hostility.

It will be interesting to he some of those stories. Welcome home

Welcome back to freedom!

My wife and I do various mission projects around the U.S. while traveling in our RV. Our last project was in Illinois, and our next one will be next week starting in Minnesota. Neither of those states will allow me to carry. I always feel a bit unsettled when unarmed while in enemy territory. It is always such a great feeling to be able to leave those states and re-arm ourselves.

Joe

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:22 pm

AF-Odin wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 5:37 pm Welcome back, but make sure their craziness did not infect you while there. We don't need any more as we already have enough of them in Austin, Dallas, and Houston.

I understand your concern. Lets just say I didn't make many friend here. Most of the apparel I wore here was met with open hostility.

A few years back I had to make several trips to SF for training for work. My biggest guilty pleasure while there was messing with the hipsters.

I was eating the supplied Paleo vegan lunch they provided, and having a conversation with the urban lumberjack sitting beside me. You know the type, man bun, manicured beard, plaid shirt and skinny jeans. When he said "I just love animals". I can't remember what the conversation was about before, but it was a strange turn in the conversation. So I replied with "Oh me too, they're so delicious." After the horror on his face passed, he started to scold me about eating meat and hunting. By the end of the conversation I had him reluctantly agreeing that my lifestyle of hunting was much healthier and humane to animals than the penned and chemically enhanced (steroids and antibiotics) food you buy in the store. I think when I told him that my food was chasing tail one day, and in my skillet the next day without ever knowing what hit him... He agreed that was a better life for the animal. When I explained the conservation money that comes from hunters, and that most hunters were huge nature lovers and wanted to preserve it in a healthy way; and that without hunters that many deer would die from black tongue I think his head was going to explode. It's one of my fondest memories of Cali.

ajwakeboarder wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 9:22 pm ….than the penned and chemically enhanced (steroids and antibiotics) food you buy in the store.

Literally none of the meat you buy in a store has steroids/hormones/antibiotics in it, that is illegal. It’s 100% a sales gimmick, and it looks like you fell for it. Don’t believe everything you read off of a bag of tyson chicken nuggets… As someone that’s had a hand in feeding America for most of my life, this is incredibly annoying. I’ll bet you don’t know what Certified Angus Beef is either?

jb2012 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 17, 2021 8:58 pm I’ll bet you don’t know what Certified Angus Beef is either?

I don’t so please explain.