Taking Chances, by E. L. Van Hine and L.H. Nicoll

[belbbmfan]

I finished Shelter From the Storm and today I'm starting the next book 'The Long Way Home'.

I'm excited!  Trying to avoid spoilers and looking ahead, which is no easy task.  :-)

RL is currently an annoying interruption of my reading of this wonderful, incredible saga.  Am I too obsessed?  Will I ever catch up?  LOL.

hi there Navyvet!

don't worry about catching up. once you are, you can start rereading!!

[MadLori]

I just reread "Shelter From the Storm."  I think I have to go back and re-read "Second Chances" now.

[MadLori]

Maigcmountain, I used some of your excellent "emotional correctness" essay in a LJ post about post-9/11 grief.  Hope you don't mind.

You can view the post here:

http://madlori.livejournal.com/513786.html

[louisev]

I just reread "Shelter From the Storm."  I think I have to go back and re-read "Second Chances" now.

errr... how long did it take you?  and how did you fit that in between writing all those blogs and redecorating your basement and... ?

[MadLori]

and how did you fit that in between writing all those blogs and redecorating your basement and... ?

Don't forget writing TCJ and organizing all my photos and having weekend guests and shopping and watching TV and doing laundry and chatting on bettermost...

I don't sleep.  Are you just now noticing this?   

[louisev]

oh yeah... and that.  So... how long did it take you? 

[MadLori]

A couple of days.

[louisev]

impressive, still!!!

[NavyVet]

I got kind of a general question here about Ennis.  I understand Brokeback Mountain is a fictitios place and Ennis is supposed to be from Signal, which is a fictitious town.  However, does anyone have any theories or clues as to what part of Wyoming these places from the original story supposedly took place in?  (I know the movie was even filmed in Canada.)

All I know about Wyoming is what I looked at on maps - Yellowstone in northwest quadrant, Lightning Flat in northeast, Riverton kind of in the middle, etc.

Thanx!

[louisev]

Signal is where Ennis and Jack met Aguirre to stage the sheep herds and truck them up to the trailhead on Brokeback Mountain.   Ennis is originally from Sage, in the southwest corner of Wyoming, a rural town.

Riverton is not far from where the mythical Signal is, and Dubois is one of the towns they ate at between Signal and Brokeback.  My best guess of the description is that Brokeback Mountain is supposedly in the northwest Wind River Range, which is just southeast of the Tetons.  If you look through our messages or search for Dubois, which is where some of the scenes in "The Long Way Home" occur, Dubois is about 80 miles from Riverton northwest, and is on the verge of the Wind River range.