In the summer of 2019 my paternal grandparents decided to take my family and my cousins on a trip to North Carolina for the summer. We rented a giant beach house. You could walk out the back door and be 100 yards from the North Atlantic Ocean! Each night we would do a different activity, except for the first night. That’s when we spent the whole day driving all the way from Illinois. By the time we got there it […]
One fishing outing I remember is the one when I caught Fat Halpert, a 5 lb largemouth bass. Me, my brother, my mom and my dad all went out to Long Lake for a day of fishing. We had caught a few, maybe 7 each. Near the corner where we would turn to head back I cast near a patch of long grass and let my lure sink a little ways. Then dad called me back to turn around, but […]