As those companions disappear, I find it very difficult to return to where nothing but memories exist. It many cases, it has taken years before the pain is diminished.
Such is life.
Don
Yes Don, the older you get the more you loose in that respect. I occasionally take my Dad's bamboo out to have a part of the past with me. Always an experience thinking of those friends and relatives gone but not forgotten.
Lorne,
Had much the same experience on the Oldman @ Bob Creek While eating my lunch I thought of all the guys who had fished in this spot over the past 50+ years. The list grew longer and longer. All but one are fishing elsewhere now.
It was a good day!
Don