Hiking post-MegaMillions

[hippiepunkpirate]

If you win the $640mil MegaMillions jackpot tonight, where will you go hiking next? I'll probably just pay for a helicopter ride to the top of Everest...

[kingsnake]

Saw on the news last night that the guy who apparently won it, checked his ticket in Maryland, not yet knowing he was the winner. I was close. Looked like maybe a road crew, as he was wearing one of those reflective vests ...

[kingsnake]

No such luck. Turns out not to be the road crew guy, but a rich guy. (The reason it took him so long to come forward? He was assembling a team of lawyers and money managers ...) :roll:

[Alston_Neal]

@kingsnake
There is no god.

[DarthStiller]

I don't think he was rich already. The area of Ftn HIlls he lives in is the cheaper section. Almost even a little ghetto by Ftn HIlls standards.

[kingsnake]

Heh. No kidding. I never would have thought there would be a cheap area there.

Btw, followed two different Steelers fans homes yesterday. You guys are taking over!

[outdoor_lover]

I don't think he was rich already. The area of Ftn HIlls he lives in is the cheaper section. Almost even a little ghetto by Ftn HIlls standards.

Kinda like the "ghetto" part of Scottsdale I live in....Everybody "assumes" that if you live in Scottsdale, you must be "well off"....
That couldn't be farther from the truth. I can't even afford to buy Lottery Tickets....

[Alston_Neal]

@Outdoor Lover
I have it on good authority that you live in a good hood.
But you, like myself have the Beverly Hillbilly Gene.
This allows us to bring the property value down wherever we go.....

[hippiepunkpirate]

Kinda like the "ghetto" part of Scottsdale I live in

I think I drove through your neighborhood yesterday, Pam...

[Al_HikesAZ]

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people . . . like I am now. Jack Handey

[kingsnake]

Or, as I say, it may be better to be poor & happy, than rich & unhappy, but it is certainly better to be rich & unhappy than poor & unhappy. ;)

[Al_HikesAZ]

@kingsnake

Money can't buy happiness. But it sure makes misery easier to live with. author Unknown

There is an intense but simple thrill in setting off in the morning on a mountain trail, knowing that everything you need is on your back. It is a confidence in having left the inessentials behind and of entering a world of natural beauty that has not been violated, where money has no value, and possessions are a dead weight. The person with the fewest possessions is the freest. Thoreau was right. Paul Theroux, The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific, 1992 backpacking

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. Jackie Mason

[kingsnake]

Freedon's just another word for nothin' left to lose - Kris Kristofferson ;)

[paulhubbard]

Freedon's just another word for nothin' left to lose

Wasn't that Janice (Me 'n Bobbie Magee)?

[outdoor_lover]

@hippiepunkpirate
Cruisin' the 'hood, were ya?

[big_load]

Freedon's just another word for nothin' left to lose

Wasn't that Janice (Me 'n Bobbie Magee)?

She got bigger sales from her version, but Kristofferson wrote it.

[Alston_Neal]

Cruisin' the 'hood, were ya?

I don't know why I pick on you and your hood cuz where we live all the signs on the power poles read...

perro perdido..........and the picture is either a chihuahua or a pit bull.
Garaje en venta.........where one can buy kid clothes by the pound.

[hippiepunkpirate]

Cruisin' the 'hood, were ya?

I was working at 68th St and Camelback, but we were driving around at lunch and the section of 68th St north of McDowell had some rough characters walking around.

[Alston_Neal]

Yeah 68th and McDowell has the Ferrari dealership doesn't it?

[outdoor_lover]

Yeah 68th and McDowell has the Ferrari dealership doesn't it?

Yes, it does!!! Land Rover too....