How I Got To Be This Way

Cullowhat?

2011-09-27T19:49:00.000-07:00

So this past weekend was my 18th birthday and I decided to take a trip to see a friend of mine in Cullowhee. I had a good time meeting new people, taking pictures and other activities on campus. My dad gave me a new camera for my birthday so I decided to try it out, here's what I came up with!

They're nothing special, but I'm getting the hang of using the camera. I will have more tomorrow after a hiking trip once again. :)

My hiking adventure and near death experience.

2011-09-21T19:21:00.000-07:00

So, I went hiking the other day. It was a lot of fun, I went with Codi Bolick. She's not very outgoing so we decided to do something... We decided to climb this, yeah, I know what you're thinking.

Here I am about 1/8 of the way up it just chillin' and contemplating if this is worth dying for, but I realize, it is. Only because I would be "that guy" and that just seemed cool, plus, who the hell wouldn't want to climb this?!

Okay here I am talking myself into it and pumping myself up, it was a great pep talk, it was mostly like this "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, hey Aron, oh shit, oh shit." Oh did I mention I am terrified of heights?

So here I am on the wooded side walking up through the woods to the top, we thought this would be easier. WRONG. Slipping on leaves and dirt. This is before I almost died...

Okay so this is 3/4 of the way to to the top, I am standing on a flat. You can see how steep the rock is.

Alright guys, here's where the fun starts, I made it to the top. Well almost, close enough for me anyways. I'm sitting like this and I start slipping, I slide 50+ft to the flat and barely hold on at the flat. I forgot to mention, on the other side of the flat, it goes straight down about 45ft. So needless to say, I almost shit my pants. But it was a success and I am proud of myself and I am proud of Codi for not being boring like always. :)

And here I am laughing and climbing backwards up the rock, it was easier to crabwalk up it rather than going forward, strange huh?

But anyways, that is all I got for now. I'll post something else tomorrow.

Later :)

Family Tradition

2011-09-14T18:52:00.000-07:00

No, there isn't any family tradition, this is just about "family".

noun

a basic social unit consisting of parents and theirchildren, considered as a group, whether dwellingtogether or not: the traditional family.

a social unit consisting of one or more adults togetherwith the children they care for: a single-parent family.

the children of one person or one couple collectively: Wewant a large family.

the spouse and children of one person: We're taking thefamily on vacation next week.

any group of persons closely related by blood, as parents,children, uncles, aunts, and cousins: to marry into a sociallyprominent family.

all those persons considered as descendants of a commonprogenitor

(Dictionary.com)

Okay, they pretty much got it right, except that family is not just bonded by blood. I have a great family. I love all of them, that doesn't mean I can stand them (HA). Nonetheless, they're great. So are my friend family, not to be confused with the common family friend. I'm talking about the friendships that will never end, no matter how many miles between you and these people. I am mainly posting this because most of my friends are off at college and by some off chance that they read this, they might text me, because most of them seem to have forgotten about poor ol' Aron. THIS MEANS YOU KAYLYN, TAYLOR, JASON, JOSH AND OTHERS.

But back to blood tied family. My dad, John Dollar, is the shit. Period, end of story. I'm serious, he's the best dad ever. He taught me how to fly fish, I mean isn't that grounds for dad of the new century in itself? I think so. But for real, the dudes my hero. I love him to death, here's a pic of me and the ol' man.

Okay, so he's short, bald and not near as good looking as I am, but like I said, FAMILY, gotta love him.

Love you dad :)

Oh, yeah...

2011-09-13T20:00:00.000-07:00

I figured I would add some fishing pics, so, uh, here.

Where I come from...

2011-09-13T19:53:00.000-07:00

Where I grew up, most people would call a "hick-town", yeah it pretty much is. But I love it, I didn't always, but I've learned that home is not where your heart is, but where your ass is and right now, my ass seems to be stuck here. I've done some stupid shit in this town, but I don't regret any of it. But I've learned a lot too and I'm grateful for that. Just as it says in the description, I LOVE TO FISH. My dad, John Dollar, got me into it. This will mainly be my fishing, hiking and photography blog. But when something reminds me of something else, or some dumb ass story, you might find yourself reading about my life. I'm in college for Chemistry, but, I will soon change that because I hate math. I'm going to change it to Anthropology, or something like that. Oh yeah, I love country music and almost all of the titles of my blogs will be titles of country music songs, like it? No? I don't care, it's my blog. But anyways, I'm going hiking this Friday, so expect pictures,

-Aron

How I Got To Be This Way

Cullowhat?

My hiking adventure and near death experience.

Family Tradition

fam·i·ly

Oh, yeah...

Where I come from...