What are the chances (I ask you?) to connect on Twitter with someone who has written a book about bears?
You DO know Cabin Mama is verrrry afraid of bears, right?
And as much as I’m enjoying reading Tom Hron’s blog about Alaska, I am NOT about to buy his book! (Sorry Tom)
Perhaps it’s because I was traumatized as a child when my Dad took us to the dump in the Adirondack Mountains….ummm…wait, let’s say that differently.
When my parents took us on vacation to the Adirondack Mountains, it rained for five days straight. So, on the fifth day, they’d had enough and decided to feed us to the bears.
HA! I’M KIDDING!
Actually, it was an educational outing; they wanted us to learn about bear behavioral habits.
What exactly do bears DO at the dump? Why, they eat garbage, of course!
And I’ll never forget those big black faces and glowing eyes as they pawed through the mounds of garbage. One even came close to the car and my Dad (gotta love him) rolled down the window so we could get a better look. Gotta love him.
Perhaps it happened after I saw the movie, The Edge. That bear scene….bwahaha!
Maybe I was traumatized from watching too many Wild Kingdom episodes on Sunday night. You remember Marlin Perkins, don’t you?
“Jim, now that it’s getting dark, it’s time for you to run on down to those woods and tranquilize that 15 foot grizzly while I wait up here in the steel-encased bunker and keep your seat warm until you return.”
It was downright scary for a little kid to watch those shows.
Here you are on a Sunday night, all bathed and ready for bed and happy. Then you see something like this episode about the White Rhino which turns your safe little world upside down…
The nightmares, those unspeakable images. It took years of therapy to get over.
Nope, I can handle the snakes and the squirrels, but the bears – well, that’s another story.
So just wait till I tell you about the Wyoming camping trip when I wouldn’t get out of the kayak to eat lunch on the beach – a shoreline that looked suspiciously like the one in the movie, The Edge!
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