What would you do ?? Izzy

bought stock in microsoft.

1. Ask the hot brunette out I met in college. I think she really dug me but I was too shy. Haha.

2. Spend a summer of my college days working for an outfitter up north.

I would have listened to better music back in the 80's

1. logged on to bwca.com bout 5 years ago.

2. converted to digital images 5 years ago. I have a lot of scanning to do!

I just want to go back and do it all again.

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I would become one of the first generation or Resort owners on Seagull and Sag.

I'd just screw up in different ways if I went back and did it all over again.

Was there good music in the 80's? LOL

1 I would make other wilerness areas like the bwca so it would be less crowded.

2 Somehow prevent milfoil and culyleaf pondweed and the other invasive weeds in the lakes in southern MN

3 Prevent Will Farrell from making movies AT ALL COSTS!!

4 Inform the french fur traders that you can simply rent canoes that weigh 38 lbs, and that france sucks

Make my planned annual trip to BWCAW last September instead of cancelling it for work then when taking a makeup vacation crashing backwards into a guardrail at 70mph.

The worst day fishing is better than the best day hitting anything at 70mph.

i would have loaded the whole family onto a Wenonah Itasca the first year it came out instead of buying that powerboat. More careful with my money, got my music degree sooner, lived healthier, never had a redhead, just kidding I am very lucky with my one and only girl friend, now married for a few dozen years.

I would have started coming to the BWCA 30 years ago instead of 11 years ago and I would have introduced my dad to the BWCA before he passed on... so he would of enjoyed it in body and not just in spirit.

Never started smoking. It's been 30 years but I have not smoked in eight days now...thanks to Chantix.

I was lucky to get through it the first time, although I would have hiked the AT instead of going to college right after highschool.

I wish I had bought that beautiful little cabin on Hunter Lake near Longville for $10,000 back in 1973.

Some the same,some things differently. Would definitely turned down alot more overtime offers and spent more time with my family. And while we're wishing, I'd have visited the BWCA?Quetico MUCH more often. Especially while the kids were still at home! Glory Days! It's hard to make up for once they have lives and wives and husbands of their own and scatter across the country. If I could turn back time I'd still wish for the same kids though! :)

I would have learned about the BWCA earlier. There are some other minor things but I would not have wanted to change anything that would not leave my life different from where it is right now. The only exception is that I would not be working the second part-time job I currently have.

I would not have posted that message, on the "ive heard of this as a deterrent before" subject, in regards to Jimmy Carter and the bear. In the first place politics have no place on this message board. But more importantly I actually have a lot of respect for the former President. To stay active in volunteering and the humanitarian projects he is involved in, when he could really be just kicking back and taking it easy, speaks volumes about what he is about. And I have a feeling that if he ever did go canoeing/camping in BW(with his about 12 secret service body guards in tow)he would not have a problem with portaging his fair share. Because that's just the kind of man he is. So there you go Jimmy, if you happen to be reading this, please accept my apologies. and if you are ever canoeing past our camp feel free to pull on in. We can sit around the campfire and talk into the wee hours of the night. What better place to solve the worlds problems than around the campfire.

Sometimes things go right.

I would have made my first trip to the BWCA about 25 years sooner than I did.

1) I would have accepted the offer to "walk on" a college basketball team after beating three of the starters in a 3-on-3 pick up game.

2)Helped my grandpa more before he died.

3)Got to know my mother-in-law better before she died.

4)saved more money for the future at an earlier age.

And of course gone to the BWCA many years before I had gone on my first trip.

I would not have been in such a hurry to grow up.
I would have read "On the Road" when I was seventeen instead of thirty and college would have waited for a couple years.

beaverwood620, Jimmy Carter could have taken on a bear--I recently learned that he kept a demented swimming rabbit from his fishing boat by swatting at it with an oar. He's tougher than he looks =)

At some point I would have gone right instead of left...hopefully sooner rather than later...however looking back for too long will cause you to lose track of where you're going.

I didn't read the original post. Or any other posts. I just thought of Cher.

That's awful!

Thanks Izzy!

MD

Does anyone know what Cher did? Or would have done?

I still have nightmares of that old lady on the carrier.

MD

prettypaddle, I don't remember ever hearing about the Jimmy Carter vs. killer rabbit incident. I think something like that would have freaked me out too, and I would most likely have done the same thing. I have had a similar thing happen with a raccoon once while I was out cutting firewood. This raccoon approached me in the middle of the day, stumbling around and falling on its side, obviously sick. I figured it may bite someone or the dog make them sick also. So like some barbarian I picked up a limb and clubbed it to death. I didn't have a gun with me so it was either that or the chainsaw. Does anyone know if bears get sick with anything that makes them act crazy? I've never heard of anything.

The responses by kanoes and Kiporby (Microsoft and hot babe), at the top of the thread, encompass the same categories of regrets that I tend to experience.

stayed single

1. Invested in Cisco Systems in 1990

2. My first trip to the BWCA would have been in '86, right out of High School, instead of last summer.

3. I would have slowed down in that one curve and avoided the head-on collision! Ouch! That hurt! That taught me not to be in such a damned hurry all of the time!

4. Moved closer to the BWCA, its to far of a drive from Cincy to make the trip very often!