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This hunting stuff reminds me of a few years ago, during our yearly company trip to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. It was December. The weather is pretty good here that time of year but it's variable. Down there it's 70s, sunny, perfect at night.

One of my friends had gone the previous year so he knew how awesome it could be. Golf, all-inclusive resort, trips to bars. Yet the next year he scored a "hard to get" hunting permit that I guess you have to enter a lottery and then win. He decided to forgo 4 days/nights of awesome weather and good company with us for the chance to sit in some bushes in northern Arizona in 40 degree temperatures and hope something wanders along that he can shoot.

Five years later I ask him about that decision and he still doesn't regret it. I've never gone hunting though so maybe it's just something I don't understand.