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By JAMES STEWART
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more I realize 1 am not quite he could. How often do you get
as young as I used to be. I have the opportunity to tell your kids Starting out as a brand new wanted to splash through rivers
been reminded of this every to "shoot someone" and really GMC Suburban, it’s hard not and streams and maybe wade
painful step I have taken for mean it? After all, any time my to get your hopes up. 1 mean, in salt water.
the past two days. kids have had anything close we’ve been at the top of the But mileage is what happens
This morning's first steps to being considered a weapon SUV food chain for half a while you’re making other
outdoor
Outpost
With
KENDAL HEMPHILL
out of bed were stiff-legged jn their hands, I am always century, hauling the loads, plans. My first post was witha I’ve got seniority, but did that the one Mom hit. One of the
and required considerable ef- preaching the exact opposite, packing the mail, and doing businessman and his wife and matter? It did not. The boys boys backed me into a mesquite
fort not to wince in discomfort. I had a hard time figuring out jobs other SU Vs wouldn’t at- kids in San Angelo. It wasn’t a all learned to drive behind my tree, and another one backed
The culprit -three games of who was having more fun, the tempt, and looking great doing badjob, perse. Most of the time wheel, mostly on country roads me into a lawyer. Some of my
laser tag on Sunday afternoon youth orus "older folks.” Some them. Plus, it’s not uncommon I stayed in a garage at night, and where there were no other cars knobsand switches are missing,
acting as the equivalent of a of the more experienced tag- for very important people to spent my days in a parking lot to run into, but still. 1 never and my windows don’t all roll
hundred leg squats—which I gers were still no match for my ride in Suburbans—quite a behind a bank or something, complained, though, and taught down anymore. I have to work
haven't done in years! stealth and ambush tactics at few American presidents have The soccer detail was boring, all three boys to drive. harder than the other family
Will Enger, the new youth least that's what I thought, but parked their rumps in one. but the kids weren’t allowed Overall, it was a good job, vehicles, on less maintenance,
minister at the First United some of the younger guys did Well, a guy can dream. to eat in me, so it could have and 1 felt appreciated. Then di- This past March, for ex-
Methodist Church, organized a a fair job at sneaking up on me Even if the presidential been worse. saster struck. Mom ran me into ample, I took the family to Big
field trip for anyone interested, and blasti ng me to smithereens, detai l doesn’t work out, lots That lasted about four years, a deer one evening about four Bend National Park for a kaya-
The focus was on the youth, and What does it say that Holly of Suburbans do great things, and then I was traded in on a years ago, and things started king trip through Santa Elena
with chaperones and all we had and 1 were the eldest members Some of us get armored and go newer model. I sat at a San going south. They bought a Canyon on the Rio Grande.
23 of us donning laser packs of the entourage? Well, either to exotic places to carry diplo- Angelo dealership for a few newer vehicle, but kept me even though 1 was low on
and heading into the dark maze, we are clinging hopelessly to mats around, and sometimes weeks, pampered and lonely, for the dirty jobs. I’ve been transmission fluid. I got as far as
For those who have never our youth or we simply wanted we end up saving American wondering where 1 would end basically a hunting and fishing Alpine on the way home before
played laser tag, you have to to have fun with the group, bacon when things go bad up next. And then, one fall rig for a while now, but I can’t I had to complain. Even then I
imagine the best game of cow- (Both if you ask me.) somewhere in the world. You day in 2001,1 was sold to the complain. didn't give up, and brought the
boys and Indians or cops and When the pizza was gone never know what you’ll end up Hemphills. The trips are always interest- Hemphills home safely from
robbers that you can imagine— and it was all said and done, doing, as a Suburban. The small, Central Texas ing, and seeing new country is what was bound to be the last
in the dark! One might also we loaded up and headed home. So when I rolled off the line town of Mason wasn’t bad, always fun. We’ve been deer trip I’ll make.
liken it to some sort of urban Sweaty, tired and laughing I had big plans, even though 1 and for a while things weren’t hunting near the coast, dove OK, so 1 didn’t get chosen
assault game. Whichever, it's about ambushes and scores, knew the odds were against me. much different than they had hunting around Uvalde and for the presidential detail or
a fun way to blow a few bucks the group seemed giddy—or Most of us end up doing the been before. Of course, life camping all over Texas. No to haul an ambassador around
and have fun as a group. maybe that was just me. soccer thing or spending our in the country is better than in telling how many times they’ve Buenos Aires, but I’ve had
The players are divided into So with every stiff step 1 careers cramped on city streets, the city, and it’s always nice to slept in me, and I’ve pulled a good run. Being a hunting
color-coded teams and the mis- take, I am reminded of how wishing we weren’t the tallest be needed. trailers ‘til my bumper was and fishing rig is the best job a
sion is to blast the little glowing much fun it is to stay young vehicles around, so the pi- I took the Hemphill fam- sore. The most exciting trips. Suburban can have. It’s what I
lights on each power pack from and not act your age. Besides, geons would roost somewhere ily on all their trips, but most though, are the blue quail hunts was made for. It hasn’t been an
the opposing team as many how many times do you get to else. 1 wanted more. I wanted importantly, I brought them at Black Gap WMA. The boys easy life but, looking back. I’d
times as possible. When you shoot folks and laugh and joke wide-open spaces. 1 wanted to back, every time. There were do most ofthe driving there, and have to say I’ve enjoyed every
get shot, your firing abilities about it afterwards.—JS breathe fresh mountain air. 1 the usual weekend trips to San spend more time looking for minute of it.
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Antonio or Austin to visit Bass quail than watching the road. Especially hitting that law-
Pro Shops or Cabela’s, but more so 1 never know if I’ll make it yer.
than anything, 1 enjoyed the out of there alive. Kendal Hemphill is an
times we went to the coast to The battle scars are adding outdoor humor columnist and
fish, or to the Llano River so up and, as they say, it’s not the public speaker who has never
the family could go canoeing years, it’s the mileage. I’ve been hit a lawyer. Write to him at P.O.
or kayaking. hailed on a few times, and Dad Box 1600, Mason, Tex . 76856
There were plenty of long whacked a deer in me besides or jeep@verizon.net.
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