{"id":30454,"date":"2025-07-22T13:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=30454"},"modified":"2025-07-22T13:17:21","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:17:21","slug":"sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/07\/22\/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>By Joe Berk<\/h6>\n<p>Boy oh boy, there is a lot happening here at ExNotes.\u00a0 It seems like the travel has been nonstop the last few weeks, and not just with me.\u00a0 Sue and I have been back and forth to the east coast for a funeral, a wedding, a birthday party, and more.\u00a0 I had the pig hunting trip with Baja John to Arizona recently.\u00a0 I&#8217;m headed up to good buddy Paul&#8217;s to pick up couple of custom Bowie knives he crafted for me (and I&#8217;ll have the story on those in the near future).\u00a0 Bo Randall, move over.\u00a0 These are grand times.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30456\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_06970699.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_06970699.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_06970699-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 85vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As I&#8217;m sitting here, our home has the pleasant aroma of Italian meat sauce (for which I provided <a href=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/04\/02\/italian-meat-sauce-and-lasagne\/\">my recipe<\/a> a few years ago).\u00a0 I&#8217;m making stuffed shells for my grandkids later today, and the first part of that calls for the gravy (as Tony Soprano would have said).<\/p>\n<p>But it&#8217;s not just yours truly who&#8217;s been active (and actively writing).\u00a0 Bobby Surber recently reported on the Grand Canyon&#8217;s North Rim fire, and she is also preparing a series on her recent trek through Patagonia.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30458\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tent-Day-1-and-2-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tent-Day-1-and-2-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tent-Day-1-and-2-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Tent-Day-1-and-2-1-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The first installment of Bobbie&#8217;s Patagonia adventure runs this Saturday, with future episodes to post every Saturday thereafter.\u00a0 \u00a0This is good stuff.\u00a0 I get to read it before you do, and I&#8217;m here to tell you the writing and the photography are superb.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Huber continues to amaze us with his writing talent, with stories coming up on Thailand, Nepal, and more (much more).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-30455\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1000013497-900-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1000013497-900-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1000013497-900-1-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/1000013497-900-1-768x406.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bumping into Mike at that impromptu gas stop in Baja (where we bought gas out of bottles from the <em>Bajaeno captitalistos<\/em>) was one of the luckier breaks I&#8217;ve had in my life.\u00a0 I love Mike&#8217;s stories, and it&#8217;s not just because we&#8217;re both Airborne.\u00a0 Mike tells a good tale.\u00a0 You&#8217;re going to love what we have coming your way.<\/p>\n<p>Good buddy Gobi Gresh is hard at it again, applying his resurrection, writing, and reporting (the Three Rs?) skills to his latest project bikes, a pair of 1962 Honda Dreams.\u00a0 He&#8217;s into both bikes to the whopping tune of $750 so far, and he&#8217;s got one of them running already.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30266\" src=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/4-600-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is good stuff, 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