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\u201cFinally, I\u2019m able to sit down and get back into writing, beginning with this journal. I\u2019m writing, for the first time, from the studio desk in my snug little shed. It will also serve as a shop, so therefore will be referred to as \u201cThe Studiop\u201d (or \u201cThe Shtudiop\u201d). <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m on a bare desktop @ 24\u201dx83\u201d and it\u2019s topped with beetle-kill pine boards and layered with several (but not enough) coats of water-based, clear Polyacrylic finish \u2013 but, it\u2019s damn close. I cut in a 2\u2019x2\u2019 window over the desk the other day, and I might install the matching window on the other side today, as well as some gable vents and more coats on this desk. Oh, the joy. It will be great!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   -Journal entry: Friday; August 10, 2018; 11:47 am. In the Shtudiop<\/em>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   After screwing up my lower lumbar it was\nnice to get back to normal \u2013 whatever that may be. For me, getting back meant\ndoing what I had in mind when I decided it was time to sell everything but my\nsoul and go on the road \u2013 as a rubber tramp. That realization occurred over a\nfew years\u2019 time before it became crystal clear. I think most things just work\nthat way. I\u2019m not sure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Let me explain first, if I may, what a rubber tramp means to me, because I\u2019m still not completely certain. As with most things important to me that I can recall without difficulty, I came across this knowledge in a movie or a book. In this case, it was both – and that\u2019s the best deal in this situation. The book\/movie is Into the Wild<\/em>, with the original story written by John Krakauer, one of my favorite living writers. Not giving away the story, I\u2019ll just say \u201cRubber Tramp\u201d was distinguished from \u201cLeather Tramp\u201d for reasons worth reading the book or watching the movie \u2013 or both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Suffice it to say rubber tramps roll on rubber (tires) and leathers are on foot (hopefully with shoes). As with everything, there are variations. With rubber tramps, you might drive an all-in-one Recreational Vehicle (RV) that can be anything from a big van to a small semi in size and luxury. They are the King Coaches of the rubber tramp byways, but definitely not for the starter set, such as myself. I chose the other option, binary world that it is, and decided to get a camper-trailer. I wanted to have separation between my vehicle and my home, so I wouldn\u2019t have to pilot my house around strange towns to get groceries. People drive rude sometimes. Big vehicles brake slowly. Accidents occur. Not good. Not even close to good, so I try to avoid that, by reducing the opportunity. And stay small. Quick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   I\u2019ve mentioned in previous blogs my reasons\nfor living the way I do, which is the same way many people seem to do in my recently-discovered,\nmobile neighborhoods – and not just at my age. I really don\u2019t care why that is.\nI\u2019m more concerned with how to do it. And, surely, why not? It can help you\nchange your mental state of being. If that\u2019s what you want. I did. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   What I really wanted to do was live the life\nI\u2019d talked and dreamed about for decades. I just had to get comfortable with living\na different way than what might be considered \u201cnormal\u201d, although that\u2019s\never-changing. And, I had to be comfortable trying new things, at a not-so-new\nage. A lot of people do that when they hit their mid-50s, and they stop simply\ntossing the AARP mail but give it a look. Again, why not? We\u2019ve earned it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u00a0 I wanted to live in the wilderness of nature, having had my fill of the craziness of urbania. Or, as Edward Abbey describes it in his wonderful book Desert Solitaire <\/em>(1968): \u201cThat miscegenated m\u00e9salliance of human and rodent called the rat race (Rattus Urbanus)\u201d.<\/em> Too many people, not enough love there. Traffic sucks. Folks driving can be jerks. Makes life less fun. Then, there are the tweakers trying to steal all your shyte. Freakin tweakers. Buh-bye!<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   I thought of other things, such as what I wanted to do now that I was living in the Red Feather\/Crystal Lakes non-metropolitan area. I envisioned fish. Troutses (sic). Big ones: Browns, Rainbows, Brookies, Golden (Palomino), and the \u201celusive\u201d Greenback Cutthroat \u2013 Colorado\u2019s state fish and solitary native trout. The headwaters for the North Fork of the Cache la Poudre River were nearby (our only river designated Wild and Scenic by federal standards), and that clear, meandering creek had thick flanks of willow brush where the moose liked to bed, leaving fresh sign if you arrive too early \u2013 which could be anytime. Damn moose. An adult bull was often seen in the area. My son and I called him Bullwinkle. What else?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   The beaver dams created some beautiful\nreflective ponds where feisty little brookies would attack the right dry fly.\nYou gotta match the hatch with whatever bugs are popping, but there are always\na few stand-by fly patterns that get slurped or slammed by those crazy little speckled\ntrout, kicking and flailing until you release them, then shooting off like a\nbullet. Bigger fish play longer, run more, and don\u2019t go into crazy mode right\naway. They\u2019re more fun to catch, but bigger fish are in bigger water, and that\nwould be Crystal Lake (technically Panhandle Reservoir, because it\u2019s filled by\nPanhandle Creek). Most locals just call it the Big Lake, to distinguish it from\nthe several smaller bodies of captured creek water nearby. My son and I would\ntake our 10\u2019 fishing kayaks out on non-windy days and drop jigs with spinning\nrods or pull streamers on fly rods, trying to get the monster fish below. We\u2019ll\nkeep trying. I\u2019ll let you know how it goes. So far, not so good…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   What was equally enjoyable to creek and lake\nfishing was just bombing out an elk hair caddis or parachute Adams from the\nbanks of the smaller ponds that had calmer water and more moose. Maybe tie a\nmidge, nymph or San Juan Worm on as a dropper. And, yes, watch out for moose.\nWhen I returned to one such pond after running into the Village for more\nsupplies, my son CJ, who was the only one there, motioned at the water\u2019s edge\nand mouthed not to let the dog out. I parked and got out quietly. A large, bull\nmoose was casually eating away at the water vegetation, grass and willow\nbranches on the other side of the inlet cove. He was cool. Big. Bigger than\nBullwinkle. Nice moose…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Fishing isn\u2019t really taxing, but it\u2019s nice to relax afterward nonetheless. In French, it would be apr\u00e8s-fish<\/em>. Oui, oui, oui! Being in the forest, high above people and listening to the wind blow through the canopy of tall trees, smelling evergreen and feeling ever young, a sensation of calmness washes over you that you don\u2019t recognize at first, but then comes back like an old friend from the days before digital. I like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Life in a camper is best enhanced with\noutdoor activities, right out the door. Looking through the thinned timber into\na primordial forest and imagining what lies in there, or walks, stalks, leaps\nor rushes within that jungle can be a bit intimidating. So, don\u2019t go there. Not\nalone with a dog, anyway. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   There are always home chores, no matter\nwhere and how you live. The simpler you live, the simpler the chores. As a\nhuman, I require food, water and shelter \u2013 aside from air, and up here it\u2019s a\nbit thin. As a rubber tramp, I additionally need a place to empty my septic\ntanks \u2013 and I really like 30 amps of 120V AC electricity running through the\nproper gauge wire, well insulated. I also look at the trees and brush around my\ncamp pad and imagine I\u2019m Edward Scissorhands and should turn it all into art,\nand create a beautiful, defensible space against the intruders of the mountain\nwilds \u2013 fire and beast. No thieving tweakers here. (Well, there was, but he got\nbusted in Fort Collins).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   It\u2019s hard to be calm in a storm. Yoga didn\u2019t work for me among the pit bulls and ex-felons of my old digs, but up here I hear my daughter\u2019s words saying, \u201cHey! Hey Pops! Can you hear me? Do yoga, okay? Yoga! Start easy. It\u2019s stretching and breathing. It\u2019ll be good for your back. Yoga!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   She\u2019d always given me\ngood advice in the past, about how to dress and what to eat and that I should\nclimb a 14er (mountain). I climbed one (an easy one) with her and her brother\nand his girlfriend. They had fun. I did too. Except when I thought I was going\nto die on the side of a stony mountain in front of a bunch of young happy\npeople and their dogs. Didn\u2019t happen, though. I won. Thank you, daughta!  You taught me to conquer my fears, and you\ndidn\u2019t leave me when everyone else needed to keep moving to fight off cramps\nand beat the impending storm to the summit. Much appreciated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Conquering fears. That\u2019s not something I used to think about. When I was young(er), and fearless. Now, I find the need for it, on occasion. I would imagine we all do, somehow. We should. We should conquer them. Every time they appear, mostly in our minds. For me, I\u2019m becoming more comfortable in the wild. Never fearless, though. Just trying to find the courage. I like Mark Twain. He said, \u201cCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.\u201d<\/em>  I\u2019m going to believe that he\u2019s right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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