Thursday, May 5, 2011

Bucket List Bull Riding

This has been a hectic month of travel going to state association meetings.  This past week at the TACO Convention I visited with Cap'n Kury from the Twin Elm Guest Ranch in Bandera, TX.  We met last year at TACO and I was wearing a pair of bull fighter boots that I purchased at the ARVC auction back in the 90's that had been donated by TACO.  For those of you who don't know what they are, they are tennis shoe cowboy boots made for bull fighters in a rodeo.  The Cap'n recognized what they were immediately and we became good friends.  His wife Victoria even tried to buy them from me.

He told me he had a new program for old guys like me that wanted to try their hand at bull riding called the Bucket List Bull Riding.  Bulls weren't quite as rank.  I immediately put that in my bucket list and then common sense kicked in about 8 seconds later and I took it back out of my bucket.

Last year I finally got the chance to work on something in my bucket list and personally visited 1,823 parks.  I had always wanted to do that.  Now in my new position with ARVC I have the opportunity to continue working for the industry that fuels my passion.  There's the old saying, "The start stops most people."  What's in your Bucket List?

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