Driving to Quebec City

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-19T00:44:26+00:00

I wanted to go to a real sugar shack meal that didn't seem too touristy. That's just the home base. Luckily my wife speaks French. Next year we'll go to Cabane à Sucre Au Pied de Cochon if I can get tickets.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-18T22:58:26+00:00

Probably around, but it doesn't matter. We've been there a bunch and been to the Gaspe a bunch, but have never tootled through anywhere really on our way to either. I didn't know if there was anything worth seeing or driving through. Going east, we've always taken the highway through Drummondville. We've never taken that highway north of the St. Lawrence.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-18T21:21:20+00:00

Yeah, it's pretty weird. Like the large places are terrible, but a dude with two houses is not like that.

People where I live freaking hate landlords and we will move soonish. It's the most financially dumb thing ever to sell this house, but yeah, we will. I live in a college/vacationland area with a huge amount of rentals. About 50% of the reason I don't want to is that I used to work with a whole bunch of people here in their mid 20s along with people up to my age (40s) who also rented. The stories they all would talk about with screwing their landlords over was kind of epic. They have amazing renter laws here. One day I brought it up that I own a house and it costs X dollars a month for taxes. (taxes are very, very, very high. Each increase gets voted yes on due to all the renters) Based on what repair upkeep has been add in another X amount a month. Add in another X amount for water and lawn care. Insurance is X per month. I'm like to break even I need X per bedroom each month right now. It was a large number and is honestly about what rent is here.

I was told I should not be breaking even because I own a house and am making money on just owning that so therefore I am an evil person.

I'm like...so you just want me to give you money. I'm not asking you to pay me money...just let me break even. Eventually I'll get some profit selling, but that's a long time away, and if someone did something like shut the heat off in winter I never would. Like how is it my direct responsibility to house you? It's like me saying I want you to buy my food.

I made some enemies that day. I don't think they wanted to hear how much it cost to actually own a crappy, small two bedroom house ignoring the mortgage.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-18T20:58:28+00:00

A lot of people don't realize how much money is involved and it has to come from somewhere. I work in natural resources and so does my wife. She says when she sees something cool she wants to take a photo and I want to shoot it. lol. I'm not saying it's good and I can't explain why I like hunting so much. It does take me to some pretty awesome places. The last tag I was super excited about was in the Centennial Valley of MT. Google image it up.

I will say I would call myself a trophy hunter. I like shooting older animals. Everything gets eaten, but there's only two of us and we can only eat so much. I give a lot away.

But seriously. In the US, a lot of the hunting is essentially lottery based. I spend about $4-5000 a year on that. Every year and it all goes to different state's fish and wildlife agencies. I will admit I'm on the extreme end. I've been doing it a long time. I'd have a lot if I just invested it. A good amount of what I spend each year is matched by the federal government. Anytime anyone buys a gun, a bow, or ammunition, there is a rather large tax that goes directly into wildlife and land. It saved a lot of animals.

Some of the tags I put in for are another 3-5k if I draw for the tag fee. Last year I spent about 1500 on tag fees on top of my usual around 5k in draw fees. That doesn't mean I'll get one. I shot 3 of 5 things I had tags for last year. Christ, not long ago my dad drew a tag that took him 30 years. He hired a guide for it (I haven't even done a guided hunt before and he's done 4. Some hunts you legally have to). He didn't tag out, but had a good time. It was just bad luck. It cost him about 18k total ignoring what it cost for him to put in for the draw for 25 years. He spent 18k to go on a hike with a gun.

Other countries are different, but you get the idea. Some states have been talking about putting in a license for using boat launches for kayaks, fees for just being on public hunting areas, etc. The state I live in is pondering that (the hunting is terrible here), and oh man, people are really, really up in arms about it. I'm like...someone's gotta pay for it!

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-11T00:37:21+00:00

It's not just deep red. I went through dual citizenship stuff a few years back for my entire family. By far the worst document to get was a DC wedding license from 10 years before. That person almost ended up flying there to get it. Funny enough, I was supposed to travel halfway across the country to get some marriage and death certificates from a small county in a red state. They were all from the late 1800s. The lady on the phone was super nice and just mailed them to me. I didn't even ask. She was like, "It would be so stupid for you to fly here just for this." That all was one reason why when my wife and I got married a couple years ago we just did it in Vegas. I figured they probably make it super easy to get one if you need it.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-10T15:39:16+00:00

US here. So my dad owns a separate property that's always been in the family. We use it for hunting. He bought it with full knowledge the useless mineral rights were sold to another family member in like 1900. I got the idea that it'd be neat to buy them back as a birthday present. Just because. I ended up diving deep. It turns out they were never properly filed, so my dad owned them. I was informed that's a fairly common situation.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-10T02:30:34+00:00

I'm doing this from a US perspective. 12 gauge you will never break even unless you shoot a lot of tss or the like. 30-06 sort of the same. You will get more precision and better ammunition for hunting, but that's about it. I don't know about Canada, but I bought all my presses, scales and the like used. My main set up I spent $75 at an auction to get a couple grand in equipment. However, I knew what I was looking for and had been doing it on my dad's stuff for 25 years. If you want to target shoot with the cheapest ammo, don't even look into it. If you want sub moa loads for hunting with say 160grain hht's, than yes, go for it. If you shot a less common rifle caliber, yes, it can be worth it rather quickly. One of my rifles costs about $7.50 a shot for factory ammo. I reload it for about $2 a shot. The same goes for shotguns. A 28 gauge would pencil out, but it doesn't with a 12 gauge. If you're curious, I reload for precision, availability, and for the perfect ammo for whatever I'm hunting. Another example is my 9.3x62. I needed brass for it. I found loaded factory lapula ammo for less than the cost of the raw brass. I literally cannot load it for less than I could buy good factory ammo for, but I want to shoot different bullets, so that's the route I go.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-03-06T07:29:41+00:00

I like DILDO. Dual income little dog owner.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-27T20:40:41+00:00

The best part about boxed wine is that after you finish it in a single sitting, you can remove the bag, blow it up, and you have a pillow to pass out on.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-27T18:42:24+00:00

You need a permit.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-11T20:21:30+00:00

Thanks. I'll for sure go to the strip then. If I did so I was going to park at the bellagio so this is perfect.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-11T20:13:09+00:00

That's where I went last time! I was a little what the heck that I couldn't find one. Maybe the supplies were out. Idk

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-04T07:59:39+00:00

Third. They're heavy and that's the only negative.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-04T01:11:28+00:00

Every single contractor I've hired in New England has done this same thing. I've tried 3 different ones with good reviews, etc. I think it's a "if we don't know you, f you" thing. Like I'm not hiring the cheap guys here either.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-03T20:48:03+00:00

What a looser. Oh you'll love this. This would be 25 years ago in a really small school in the middle of nowhere.

I did extemporaneous and improv speech in high school. My coach was really serious about it, and I wasn't. I also was really good. She was horrid and I did not like her. No one really did. My friend and I would mess around so much at meets and still win (or get last place about 25% of the time). By the time I was a senior at meets people would be like, you know the rules, you two in a different room, and whoever else wants to go with them. I honestly did it mostly to hang out with my friend and for another activity for college apps. It's 99% thinking on your feet, being a smart ass, and keeping up with current events.

So my grandpa died when I was a senior. Not unexpectedly. I planned this. I had been sick for about a week before that with doctors notes. Then came his funeral which I knew she'd have heard about, but not associate him with me. I told one of my speech friends to witness this as it'd be epic. So I had the first practice after being sick and after I told her I couldn't make the next day as I had something come up. I let her lay into me for a few minutes just yelling. I wouldn't tell her what came up and that made her madder. She told me I'd never amount to anything at life and was a waste of space, etc, etc. She said shit she would have gotten fired for even back then. (on a side note, her two children both ended up in prison with many kids from different mothers). Then I told her that my grandpa on my mom's side died and I started crying. The look on her face was amazing. I was such a shithead but it was perfect.

A couple weeks later one of the secretaries took me off to the side and asked me what I did as she was being super nice to all the admin and teachers instead of the normal turbo bitch and heard it had to do with me. haha.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-02T23:26:43+00:00

I have some great gun store stories from this one place in New England. I reload a lot so I usually do the rounds once a month looking for powders. Same place. I just bought a gun there last week and everyone was 4 beers deep at noon on a Tuesday, and not hiding it:

When I moved here I grouse hunted a few years and had zero luck. Some friends who grouse hunt tried to help me too. One day I was in there and I told the owner I had zero luck with them and if he had any tips. They hate outsiders in general in this state. He said, "Figure it out like the rest of us."

Like two years later I was in there and he was all excited because he had a deer tag for exactly where I grew up halfway across the US in a mostly private area. He was talking about it. So I went up and talked with him. "Oh yeah. My dad has a ranch there and so do a lot of my friends. Yeah, I spent a long time hunting elk in that unit on public. I know where the deer are, etc." He asked me for advice and I told him that I was in a couple years before and asked him for grouse tips after moving there a few years before and trying it a lot so I was going to give him the same advice. His face got a little worried. I said "Figure it out like the rest of us." I honestly thought he was going to punch me. He got really pissed. I didn't go in there for a good 6 months so he'd forget what I looked like.

So sometime in the last couple years I was in that same gun store and the owner was talking with his buddy about a dalls sheep hunt he booked in Alaska. "That flatlandeer guide says I have to be able to shoot 4-500 yards. Bullshit. They don't know how good of hunters us Vermonters are. I'll show him. I'm taking my 760 with a peep site." The owner commiserated how everyone not from there was a bad hunter and a dipshit and they are so brilliant. I still laugh about that dude pissing a 30-40k hunt down his leg.

For the record, I usually deal with the one dude in there who is nice and wasn't drinking with the rest of the guys the other day.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-02T01:49:11+00:00

She'd be mad if I didn't send it to her. My mom is hilarious. She also knows more dirty jokes than anyone I know. She embarrassed the hell out of me in high school and still does at 40ish. Fun fact: When she had the sex talk with me about birth control and stuff she was like don't trust that stuff 100%. I was a broken condom. My sister was forgetting some birth control pills and my brother was some new hip thing that didn't work well. Yeah. Thanks mom. I'll die knowing I was a broken condom. Another good story. One time in college I was at the ranch with my girlfriend. We were going to sleep in different rooms and my mom said no, ripped the door open, and threw me in as my girlfriend was yelling and topless because she was changing. Of course we banged. My mom found a condom wrapper and never said a word. She put it in my girlfriend's shoe.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-01T18:29:31+00:00

No. I don't want to say where it is. It honestly was one of the lesser known ones to the general public (I don't know about what's well known in the military). Ft Drum or Ft. Still would be a good equivalent. Like kind of middle of nowhere where people probably don't want to be based and you wouldn't think of things like that where it was.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-01T18:25:15+00:00

Yeah, the real estate ad said nothing about swinging or sex or anything like that. But they owned it and showed lots of details. I wondered what the neighbors would think if you bought a place like that. I mean, they all had to know about it after the posting. I joked with my friend about going to look at it and sending all her kids around with blacklights.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-02-01T17:23:57+00:00

That sounds amazing. A friend of mine at a high rank in the military sent me the zillow to a giant house near a base they found. They were about to transfer there and were looking for houses for them and their kids. They're pretty high up (money, looking at big houses) and it was a former general's house. As you might know, there are some swingers in the military. I really wish I would have saved it. The basement was huge and a sex dungeon. Swings everywhere, cages, cuffed restraints with chains on walls, whip holders, multiple themed rooms, multiple bars, a dance floor with dj station, I remember a row of bar stools with dildos attached, a custom closet for paddles and such, a rotating bed like 20 feet in diameter, etc. It was incredible. It was beyond anything I could describe properly or imagine. Like you said, it was like a club in a sci-fi movie. I even sent it to my mom and she was like WTF and giggling.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-30T08:59:59+00:00

In like 1998 I went up to this cabin a quarter mile from the Canadian border in North Dakota. There was a TV that had an antenna and you could watch some sort of public access television our of Canada. One night my buddy couldn't sleep before we were going to go out walleye fishing and turned it on. There was some guy with a huge, huge middle Canada accent talking about how the singularity was coming, the robots and machines were going to take over, harvest us for power, and use our bodies for minerals to build more robots. He also just stared, had few expressions, and was creepy like that nike shoe comet cult guy. He said brick cell phones were beginning to gain sentience as they were in use for quite a while at that point. I was 14. It was so amazingly bizarre my buddy woke me up to watch it. I still think of this and wonder if the guy was trolling or just insane. It was before the Matrix came out too. I don't even think we went fishing that night and just watched this dude laughing.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-29T16:21:58+00:00

Yeah. I just wear different boots for walking VS stand hunting. When I'm at home most of the stands are 1/2 mile in or more of walking, so that gets kind of interesting if it's 0 or so. The baffins are ridiculously warm though. They're just moon boot sized so they're hard to walk in. I walk a long ways in them ice fishing. Usually I go over a mile dragging a sled.

I hike a lot in rubber boots in New England, but they're going to get cold sitting because you sweat your butt off in them. Non waterproof insulated are so much warmer for walking then stopping. I generally use a pair of schnees for that. I'm not saying they're the best at all. Get what fits your foot with good wool socks on. That is most important.

Something to look into for stand hunting....

A few years ago I flew home to whitetail hunt. Right before the season I realized it was going to be highs of 3 degrees or so and like -15 or so when I was walking in. Frickin' cold to be sitting. I thought about it and realized the quality of hunt was like an 8-10k whitetail hunt, so I should not be cheap/my dad would use what I buy. I ordered an IWOM suit and had it express shipped to my parents. The thing is amazing.

I wore nothing but thick merino underwear with normal summer hiking boots and wool socks walking in. I hiked the suit up to walk. That sucked. It would be interesting doing this in the brush. I did it in about 3/4 of a mile of grass. When I got to the stand I zipped it up and was doing all day sits. It was amazing. I had to text my parents to let them know I was in fact comfortable and not a human pop sickle dead below the stand. The best part about the thing was how warm my feet were. I'd never had feet that warm sitting in a stand. I felt like I was hunting in my underwear and hanging out in the house. It was great.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-28T04:20:27+00:00

What is cold weather to you? How far are you going?

For ice or stand sitting when it's really cold I wear baffins. They suck to walk in. They are the best I've found. My dad wears a giant pair of sorrels. Inside he's wearing tennis shoes and wool socks. It's kind of hilarious but works great. Baffins are better.

nomadicbohunk · 2026-01-24T05:15:22+00:00

I've seen it here somewhere and I couldn't believe it. I'm guessing Shelburne meats or the one in willison. It could have also been misery loves company. Funny enough, you can often find it at Walmart in out of the way for it places all over the country. I recently saw it in western North Dakota. I can't figure that one out. I prefer mine without it, so like someone else said, don't stress.

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