Well, spent a fun weekend with Fest at Lake of the Ozarks. Very nice. Learned how to sky ski a bit which sucks cuz now I gotta buy one. I must say that Fest's boat is a sweet ride. Roomy and one heckuva (thats a Utah term which means "neato") wake. We were riding around with 10 adults in the cockpit and the front ballast full and that wake popped like Orville Redenbacher. Still scares me though. That lake made me hate the federal and state govment even more than I already did. It was sweet to have a giant lake that is half privately owned and half state park. All the services (gas, restaurants, lodging, etc.) were available to drive up to with the boat. Here in Utah the gov'ment owns everything and there is no private land adjoining the lakes. There are just gov'ment concessionaires (ain't that a monopoly?) who gouge you and have crappy services. I think it would be sweeeeet if Powell and Mead had some (even a small amount) private shoreline and the gov'ment had the rest to protect it from destruction. Wait, what am I saying? I love to pay my huge taxes and then have the park service charge me an entrance fee and a boat use fee to use the lake. I also love to pay their monopoly company cashola to stay in one star trailers. Utah, the land grant state. Too bad all the land was granted to the gov'ment by the gov'ment. Thanks Fest for a great but all too short weekend.
