This is an easy one as it has already happened a few years ago. An ex showed up around midnight looking for a place, but I grabbed some beers and we sat on the front porch talking until almost the morning. Then she felt better and drove home. It was not really the shelter that she needed, it was to be able to talk things out...

My suggestion would to be to check out the Route 66, but that is more north than your current plans. I did the Route 66 trip from California to Oklahoma, one of those things just to say you did it.

Be careful on all the different road side foods, I was in Corpus Christi a couple years ago and driving back to Arkansas we thought the same thing and hit up a local place that was suppose to be good. My stomach is usually pretty good at handling anything, but we made a lot of gas station bathroom stops for everyone and even I only made it to the Arkansas border before I had to find a stop...lol

It might be because of so many women on here that will send out messages like "Pay my phone bill and we can go on a date" or something like that...lol

When you are young and dumb, bravery is easy...lol

I do try and travel in the states here, the weather was bad in Arkansas here so I did a road trip with some friends up to Tulsa where the weather was better...lol Some times it is good to travel just for the hell of it, even if it is only a few hours away.

I did a little traveling when I was younger, living over seas and all. But there was things I wanted to do that I missed out on while I was there. Things like the Running of the Bulls in Spain, I wanted to participate when I was there (19/20 year old) but I think I would have to settle just watching now...lol I did not spend enough time in Denmark while I was there either...or make it down to Venice, Italy with all the waterways. That is just off the top of my head with Europe. I was there for almost three years and it did not seem like enough time to see everything.

Then when I lived in Korea I traveled around Asia there but never made it down to the Philippines or Australia like I wanted to then. I still might go one of these days but it seems like traveling now gets pushed further back on the to-do list...lol

I believe you have to pay to see that....

Then with your logic they are all part of each other since they all fall under the Commander In Chief, the president...

Marines and Navy are separate branches, although the do work together a lot.

There are suppose to be six branches of the military now, the four main ones are the Marines, Navy, Army, and Air Force. There is also the Coast Guard which is kind of a branch and now the new Space Force.

It is not bots that are the problem here, it is fake profiles, catfishing, whatever you want to call it.

I usually just click on the 'Recent Posts' at the top of the page. It is easier than going through each section.

Only 5 years?!?! I figure at 70 that your dating pool has shrunk up enough that "Old is Old"...lol I figure 10 years +/- but if I make it to 70 then I might drop it down to 50 just to see more options...lol

Read that again, it was MY girlfriend. My son was probably about 8 at the time and my girlfriend's kids were like 7 and 5 as I recall.

If the destination is dangerous then I would not call that a vacation, that is more of an adrenaline rush or adventure thing. That can be fun to do, but to me a vacation is something relaxing that you do not have to worry about actually doing anything.

Spanking is not beating, it is like slapping the butt. It is more of a pride thing than it is injury. Not all kids respond well to it so it is a case by case basis. Some times just the threat of a spank is enough. When I had my son living with me and my girlfriends two kids, I never spanked her kids (for one, I did not think it was my place even though both their mom and dad gave me permission while they lived under my roof). But they were younger and my son got in trouble but her kids did not follow so just he got a spanking in front of them. So for her kids, just the threat of a spanking was enough after they seen it happen. As a parent, your kids should have both trust and a little fear in you...trust that you will protect them and teach them right but also a little fear from what might happen if they do what they know is wrong.

The more information that gets posted, the worse it sounds. Hopefully you do move on to find a better fit for you, not one still hung up on her ex...

We are only getting half of the story, but it was a suggestion more to get the shock value to get his role back...lol The PC method would probably to tell him to go to counseling and all that, but that is not a quick fix. The kids seeing their dad lose it and spank everyone (the mom would only get it if she tried to step in to stop him). At least the push over role he is in should stop...whether they stay together or not is a different story...lol

Maybe that is why he struck me as a tv cowboy, they edited out the real stuff...lol Most horses are trained in different ways, like a trail horse is probably not use to having a rope swinging around but you would not want to use a roping horse on unstable ground usually.

My aunt has horses so I grew up around them. There are pictures of all us kids being in a saddle probably before we could walk...lol But I left that life years ago it seems like. My mom still has a bunch of the rodeo stuff, I kept a couple of the belt buckles I won but when I moved away it was not part of my life any more. Not that I miss shoveling out the stalls or anything though...lol

OK, since there is such a collective of smart women in this thread...What would be the right thing for a guy to say that wants to tell you something but does not want you to think he is interested in you. Help us dumb guys out here with the magic words that make everything right...lol

To me, Terry was a TV cowboy where the new guy seem to be an actual cowboy. All Terry's horses were well trained but there was one that the new guy was breaking in and it bucked him off. He got kicked pretty good on film and he got back up and kept tracking. Then later, probably at the end of the show, he pulled his shirt up to see all the bruised ribs he was riding with...lol

Maybe look at what you would do if it was one of your ex's wanting to meet. Usually ex's are an ex for a reason and you do have to trust your new partner.

Personally, if an ex wanted to meet up (and for some reason I agreed) then I would want to bring my new girlfriend with me. Then there is no doubt in what is happening in this meeting. Hopefully she would do the same. But if I felt that there was a problem, then I would have to speak up and let her know that it is making me feel jealous/insecure and I do not like feeling like that.