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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Topic Author's Original Post - Oct 8, 2018 - 06:50pm PT
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Seventeen years in Seattle will end tomorrow morning, when we get in the car and drive north. Across the border, board two ferries, and then spend the first night in our new home.
Oh, sure, there’ll be more back-and-forth as we finish prepping our Seattle house for sale and move loads north, but, as the song says:
We'll be leaving this town in the morning,
tomorrow we'll be able to see.
I've had me enough of this city,
and she's had enough out of me.
Seattle has felt more like home than any other place I’ve lived – a far better place than Vancouver, just across the border – but the time has come. Retirement beckons, and where better to spend it than this:
Say if I climbed to the mountain,
would you still follow me there?
Steal me away in an echo…
…the mountain will always be there.
Yes, the mountains will always be there. And the rock walls (far beyond anything in Yosemite), and the cliffs, and the boulders… And the ocean, and the biking, and all kinds of other stuff I’d be all over if I were fifty years younger. But which I still might have it in me to at least sample.
And if my aging mind and body rebel against sampling the good stuff in the hills and on the water, well, there is always the good stuff in the local Belgian brew pub.
Well I'm turning my sights on the country,
I sold everything that I own.
Heading away from the bright lights,
looking for where the wind blows.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Geographical fixes rarely solve personal problems...
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Best of luck in this new life. It sounds like a wonderful choice.
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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Congrats. Two ferries back to Squamish?
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Well, RJ, that all depends on yer navigation skills. I’m sure Ghost will be sailing large
and fetching up in a very tidy well watered anchorage.
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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And....Best of luck...
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Home's where your peppers are growin'.
Best to ya!
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Totally Awesome, Ghost! Godspeed! lynnie
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johntp
Trad climber
Little Rock and Loving It
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Powell River looks really nice. Stay in touch and let us know how things move along.
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Aeriq
Social climber
Location: It's a MisterE
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I chose the other direction, but the "climate" calls us all in different ways.
Plus it's like a home-coming, right?
Congrats - and a good time to leave the states, if I say so myself...
Erik
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Bon voyage on this next chapter. May you find opportunity, rest, new friends and grand adventure wherever you may land.
Scott
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John M
climber
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Say Hi to Tami on your way north for us. Please!
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phylp
Trad climber
Upland, CA
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Best of luck, Ghost!
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Tom Patterson
Trad climber
Seattle
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Man, David...I'm really going to miss you. Still counting one more hangout with the fam before you guys are gone to the great white/green north fer good.
I have to say that you are one of the coolest, and most interesting people I've ever roped up with--and don't argue with me. (On top of that, you wrote a damn good climbing novel!!)
Here's a pic of David (Ghost) I took at an area called The Railyard that he and Mari developed:
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Geographical fixes rarely solve personal problems...
Maybe if you are running away from something... but not when you are running toward something.
Retirement seems like a beautiful time to pick a new set of priorities and remove some constraints. I wouldn't mind enjoying ample down time, staring out at those snowy ridges across the water. Looks like you picked a good spot Ghost!
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Scrubber
climber
Straight outta Squampton
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Maybe you and Bruce Kay can get into some trouble together up in PR
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Jan
Mountain climber
Colorado & Nepal
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They have internet in Canada you know.
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Bargainhunter
climber
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Cool and congratulations! You couldn’t have picked a better time to sell property in Seattle!
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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Good Luck Ghost,Canada is a great place as well.
I will be on Vashon Island at my good friend Skates house late winter,and enjoying some time in Seattle.
Wishbone Ash’s Live Dates long play is still in my personal rotation.
Enjoy your retirement.
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