Once in a lifetime...: For everyone who asks "Where do you live?"

Driving to the ski hill the other morning, Brian and I started talking, (we still do talk to eachother crazy isn't it)? On Decemeber 27th we will be residents of North Fork Idaho, for three years! I still can't believe how quickly time has gone, the winters, springs, summers, and of course my favorite fall. I remember the night we got here laying in bed which was frozen from moving in -13 weather, and thinking, what the hell have I done? I had the most god awful feeling in the pit of my stomach. I remember actaully thinking "will my father drive all this way to come pick me up?" I'm pretty sure he would of, but I gave it a couple of days and fell deeply in love with this place called North Fork...

You ask what has North Fork done for this girlie, well I can tell you. Every single day I meet people on different paths of their lives. Whether it's a rafting junkie, just getting off the river for eight days, or a father taking his son hunting for the first time in the hopes of shooting that price winning bull, or that fisherman who comes in just to get warm and tell me his fishing story for the day, or how those steelhead still acting like steelhead stumped him again. I love my everyday life, my job, and my days off.

The peacefullness of escaping "the busy life of North Fork" if you can even call it that. Camping with my dogs, hiking with my groom, sitting around a camp fire playing horse shoes. Those long summer nights, that are so hot all you do is pray for a breeze. I love everyday I look out my window and see the amazing Salmon river, with that amazing fish, that keeps the best of best fisherman coming back.

I have to remind myself seeing a mountain lion, big horn sheep with a full curl, 8 bald eagles sitting in a cottonwood fishing, or a mountain goat, is not normal and truly is special. I'm not religous, but one of my favorite quotes is "God is in the mountains, and every now and again walks along the river banks." I truly believe this is where he would walk. There is something special about North Fork, and if you are lucky enough maybe one day you can come visit me.

Tears well up in my eyes when I think of how I almost walked away from this place. Because of how special it is and how much I love what I do, I had to dedicate an entire blog to it. Below are pics of this amazing place, and how lucky I am. So to answer your question this is where I live!

With a back drop like this how can you not take a picture?