The Old West

As I’ve gotten older I know one thing for certain….I would not have made it in the old west. I need air conditioning and a shower. Can you even imagine what people must have smelled like back then. Nope. But sometimes when I’m driving out in the middle of nowhere like I was yesterday, I catch myself wondering what it was like to be on horseback riding out in the Flint Hills. I think it might have been fun….for about an hour before I had a friend come pick me up in the car. But yesterday I saw a perfect spot at the bottom of a hill near a stream and I thought for a split second…maybe I could’ve made it back then. That lasted for a split second. No way in Hell I would have made it.