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Thanks

We’re home

And I find I don’t wake up gasping like I always do in Leadville or Ouray or Telluride

I could not get over the tourism surrounding the now called Alpine Loop between Silverton....grown by leaps.....Ouray and Lake City

In the 70s you took your chances up on those old mining roads at 12-13,000 and no one was out there

In 75 we’d park in some old shaft and scramble up a 14er and just camp and dig the awesomeness

Especially stars....and July heavy snowfal.....in an old Subaru 4wd

Now it’s a logjam like Everest in August below the Hillary steps

But it was still so much fun and being with just my two oldest boys

Gunnison has changed a little bit

Montrose is metropolitan

Glenwood Springs grown

Leadville about the same

Buena Vista and Salida ...grown

Durango which I love....really very Texas and California money now...lotsa purty wimmin

Santa Fe....a place of my DNA.....OLD TOWN....same....sprawl....bad....too many weirdos

Taos.....good lord the sprawl

Chama.....still Chama thank God and Ouray too

Telluride......they hide it up in Telluride I swear it’s here to stay.....really grown

Rural Colorado is still conservative outside the arts areas.....I talked to folks as I’m prone and everybody love to talk about Nashville

Not an easier town to be from when traveling it’s an ice breaker even with the most bull dyke timberland carhartt wearing lebezian woman

I learned rural mountain land is pricey.......10,000 an acre on a good road

I also most importantly learned these points

In Dixie pick up truck four wheelers rule as does John Deere and plenty four trackers

In the high mountains....it’s Polaris Polaris and Polaris

Pickups are Dodge Ram mostly....which is fine by me

And serious off road is a Jeep Wrangler or CJ5 type gear or Toyota if a bigger budget

Very few old land rovers or nissans

Say a few budget old school Isuzu troopers crawling along

All that says something