Goin' to AZ....Yeeeeeeha!

PhilL

PhilL

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I grew up a-dreamin' of bein' a cowboy,
and Lovin' the cowboy ways.
Pursuin' the life of my high-ridin' heroes,
I burned up my childhood days...

I love that old Willie Nelson song, and even at my advanced age I still want to play cowboy. Several years ago I started a thread here about Cowboy Action Shooting, because I wanted to dress like a cowboy and shoot stag handled Colts. I lived for about 6 months of last year in Houston, TX and you can be sure I was looking into signing up with a CASS group down there. I didn’t make it in Texas, and I haven’t had any excuse to get any cowboy gear...until now.

The company I work for is having a Holiday get together in Scottsdale AZ. A four day all expense paid trip, with a Cowboy/ Western theme. I’ve got an excuse to buy some Western wear. No stag handled Colts, or boots and cowboy hats, but some clothes. I bought my wife and I some Levi’s denim shirts, you know the kind with the pearl snap buttons. I don’t know anyone that doesn’t love those shirts, but I haven’t owned one in probably 20 years. My real score, a shirt I’ve wanted for about 50 years, is known as a Bib Shirt or an Engineer's Shirt. The original design was for fireman back around the 1840’s, but later adapted by cowboys. For me it’s the western shirt I identify with “The Duke”. Here’s the one I bought.

http://tontorim.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/product81.html

Black Levi’s jeans, black belt with steer skull belt buckle and I think I’m going to be all set for the Saturday night B-B-Q, but I thought I was missing one thing. The Duke always wore a bandana, although I have some regular cotton bandanas I thought I needed something a little nicer. These are the ones I ordered, they’re cotton, but larger than the regular ones I have. I haven’t decided which one I’ll wear with the Bib Shirt. It’s kind of silly I have to admit, but I am looking forward to the trip and playing dress-up.

...My heroes have always been cowboys.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' dreams.
 

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AZ borders Nevada ya geographically challenged midnight cowboy bastid, ya!!
i coul use some company... helps keep my unwanted "gusts" away ya know.
i'd toss in a hah, but these things ain't funny...
oh if anyone's scratchin' themselves wonderin' what i'm referrin' to when i mention "guests", they're confused dead people.
yeah i really lost my mind tis time.
anyhoo, Phil, if ya got the time fr a road trip i ope ya choose here and not mexico..although ya can get better drugs in mexico than from me. no narcotics but all the vallium ya can eat.. oh and ya can get tylenol #3 too just wtch the us customs guys when ya come back.
oh and don't bother gettin' any blades there.. all i saw was cheapchit autos that'd probably get ya hassled on the way back.
so you're obviously better off here, right? :-)
ok, glad we got that settled. see ya soon and have a nice trip to AZ.
signed
me and VG
 

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...My heroes have always been vampires.
And they still are, it seems.
Sadly, in search of, but one step in back of,
Themselves and their slow-movin' fangs.
 
Vampire Gerbil said:
AZ borders Nevada ya geographically challenged midnight cowboy bastid, ya!!
i coul use some company... Phil, if ya got the time fr a road trip i ope ya choose here and not mexico... VG
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Let's see, Scottsdale, AZ to Pahrump, NV. 450 miles!!!! :eek:
Dave, I'd love to visit and give you some company, but that's a little far for the time I've got in AZ.

Here's wishing you a Happy Thanksgiving....don't forget to eat.
 
If you have time, travel south to Nogales, AZ and go to the Bond Custom Cowboy boot company. Get yourself fitted to a pair of custom boots with the old vaccaro style heels. You'll be glad you did.
 
Lanza, amazing boots at Bond's, I just took a look at their website. I probably won't get boots for this trip, and Bond's would be way out of price range anywho.
 
PhilL -

I absolutely love AZ. Took a week and a half long trip there about 3 months ago. Tombstone, Cochise Valley, then up to Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Meteor Crater. You've gotta' love a place that still has names like Bloody Gulch, Deadman's Wash, Horsethief Basin, Two Gun and the like.

I like your shirt. Wear it in good health and enjoy your trip.

"I can take the wildest bronco in the tough old woolly West.
I can ride him, I can break him, let him do his level best;

I can handle any cattle ever wore a coat of hair,
And I've had a lively tussle with a tarnel grizzly bear.

I can rope and throw the longhorn of the wildest Texas brand.
And in Indian disagreements I can play a leading hand . . . ." - Old Frontier Ballad
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Yippie-ki-yay.
 
panella said:
I like your shirt. Wear it in good health and enjoy your trip.
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Thanks panella, you're the only person to mention my new shirt. I bet if it took me 50 years to get a certain knife there would have been more notice.

As far as visiting Arizona goes, the South West fascinates me, and I've always wanted to visit there. The Four Corners region and Monument Valley, (John Ford Country) are of particular interest to me.

In 2005 when I wanted to move to the Houston office the President of the company I work for wanted me to go to the Scottsdale office instead. I didn't do well in Houston and I guess I'll always wonder if things would have been different in Scottsdale.
 
who said anything about speed limits? ya just rent a car, pay for the collision insurance and crash-derby on out here.
heh heh i yam soo sneaky...
anyhoo, it woulda been impolite if i didn't mention it tho, right?
i just better not see a post when ya get back braggin' about payin' thousands to get laid!(only in the legal brothels would ya have to pay that much...come to think of it only here would the ladies get away with chargin' so much.
oh well, mebbe next time. have a good trip Phil.

me
 

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If you like old west style duds do a search on Wah Maker . I have one of their frock coats. The problem is my wife will not be seen with me when I am wearing it.
I was born in a cabin in the pines outside Prescott Arizona. My mother was born and spent most of her childhood at Kayenta on the Navajo reservation.
Her grandfather was John Wetherill a well known pioneer and explorer. She was a young girl when John Wayne and crew stayed at their lodge when they were filming the movie Stagecoach.
I have been in Alaska for almost 30 years and it is hard to go home to visit.
The growth in population is phenomenal. It is still a great place but I prefer to remember it as it was.
 
Ed, no stag buttons, but it does have star buttons.

AK, I am familiar with Wah Maker they make authentic western wear. That's quite a familly history. It's interesteing you should mention the movie Stagecoach, that's the moovie that I remember first seeing the Duke where a bib shirt.

Ringo must have been a little insecure, why else would he wear suspenders and a belt. ;)
Also notice the lever on his Winchester, I thought that was pretty cool feature on the TV Show The Rifleman's rifle, but here it is in a 1939 movie. :cool:
 

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Dang, PhilL, you want people on this forum to notice anything about clothing?

Haven't you ever been to a knife show?:D

None of us are gonna get jobs as fashion consultants, that's for sure.

For one brief, shining moment--I was the height of fashion.
Cargo pants were "en vogue".

However, as one of my students pointe out to me:

"you are not supposed to put cargo in cargo pants".

:D

It is a cool shirt. :cool:
 
shaldag said:
Dang, PhilL, you want people on this forum to notice anything about clothing?
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I didn't really expect anyone to get too excited about what a fat old man wears, but I did think some would appreciate buying something just to fulfill a childhood fantasy. ;)
 
I'm really getting excited about this trip, we'll be in Scottsdale on Thurs. We'll be in Sedona on Sat. My boss called me today and suggested that my wife and I look at this website www.adayinthewest.com to see what we'd like to do while we're there. My guess is my wife will vote for the winery tour, she's they type you could drag her through miles of catctus as long as there's a bottle of wine at the end.

What really caught my eye was this page with all of the movies that used Sedona as a location. These are the movies I grew up with.
http://adayinthewest.com/sedona_movies.html

This is going to be cool.
 
Phil,

I hope you enjoy the trip even more than you think you will!

Take care my friend.
 
Phil, you'll love Sedona, an awesome place. Scottsdale is just too touristy for me. Great galleries and shops, though. Leave the credit cards home! Make sure you drive up Oak Creek Canyon in Sedona.

After almost 60 years in NJ, I can't believe how much I love Utah. This really is close to the old West, cowboys and all. My wife loves it when we're out and run into a couple of cowboys herding cattle with their trusty dog.

My favorite sign is when we leave Utah to go to the Grand Canyon, "Beer, Ammo and Lottery Tickets".


Win
 
Man I'm sorry I missed this one!
Have a good time PhilL, the shirt is too cool.
Take some frikkin pictures, will ya?

Here's a site for next time...wild rags at jinglebobs
http://www.jinglebobs.com/

Silk...nuff said?

Enjoy you ol cowhand you :D
 
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