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   \u201cLabor Day weekend. Lots of ATVs and OHVs cruising around the roads up here, and too many fishermen at the lakes and ponds when I checked yesterday, so today I\u2019ll focus on getting a load of slash to the depot.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Cleaning up this property is therapeutic for me. I hope to have the cell phone booster and electricity by the end of the week. Time is passing quickly now. Leaves that don\u2019t face the sun have begun to turn, and there is a crispness in the air when I first step out from the camper.\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

–Journal entry: Sunday; September, 2nd, 2018; 11:15 am. In my camper, Cochise<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  The summer is drawing\ndown, like water in a bucket left out in the sun, evaporating to mist \u2013 and\nthere\u2019s nothing I can do but watch. I am that mist.\nI\u2019m evaporating from this place, and will blow south soon to condense and\nprecipitate in a warmer environment, before the cold, shuttering snowfall locks\nthis property in tight as a tick. I\u2019ll roll down to New Mexico, the Land of\nEnchantment, a place I\u2019ve only visited and never really took the time to look\nbeyond the tourist destinations of Taos and Santa Fe \u2013 but I\u2019ll give it its due\nthis time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Their state park system covers the corridor\nfrom the San Juan and Sangre de Christo mountains in the north down to the\nChihuahuan desert, running from the high plateaus of southern New Mexico to the\nbelly of the boiler in old Mexico. I\u2019ll stay north of the border, though. Keep\nmy gringo ass out of the killing zones of the drug cartels, furiously fighting\nto meet our country\u2019s insatiable demand for their poison pills and powders.\nSome things are best observed from a distance. A safe distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  But first I must wrap things up here, in the high timber of the Colorado Rockies. Gotta grab what I need from the shed and shed what I don\u2019t need from Cochise. Find that balance between traveling light and having the right things for a winter\u2019s stay away. I\u2019ll let you know how that goes…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  One last swing in the hammock, staring into the treetops and blowing in the wind, gather up the garden tools and outdoor furniture, kayaks, camping gear, gas jugs, buckets, birdfeeders and whatnot. Secure the shed doors and windows to discourage bears and tweaker thieves, haul off the garbage and give it all my blessing. Adios, Shtudiop!<\/em> (shed\/studio\/shop) Cathcha\u2019 on the flip-flop.<\/em> (Sorry for that…Lo Siento<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Rambeaux (my eleven-year-old, gentle canine\ncompanion) senses a change coming and doesn\u2019t leave my side. She looks at me\nwith bat ears, awaiting an explanation. I don\u2019t give one. There are still\nchipmunks and pine squirrels to chase while she can. Who knows what critters\nwe\u2019ll find on this road trip? Hopefully friendlies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I close my eyes and breath deep the ponderosa\nand lodgepole pine smell, feeling a bit dizzy from the altitude. The locals say\nit takes a year at this elevation of 9,000\u2019 for your body to build up enough\nred blood cells to handle the rarefied air. The locals are right. Gotta love\nthe locals, wherever they are. I\u2019m hoping it\u2019s that way when I get to New\nMexico. Again, I\u2019ll let you know…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I think of the quiet pleasance of being at this place, in this moment, each moment, passing from one to the next, connecting the dots to make a line \u2013 a lifeline. That\u2019s what it is, isn\u2019t it? Just a bunch of moments making a life? I\u2019d like to think so. I\u2019ve been reading a book on basic Zen Buddhism, and that seems to be the way they approach life. I rather like that. I\u2019m going to talk about seeking enlightenment, searching for nirvana, shaking my chakras to shed samsara and see if I can\u2019t get someone to ask me if I\u2019m Zen Buddhist, to which I will meditatively reply, \u201cYes…but only for the moment…\u201d <\/em>(Again, Lo Siento<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I think of the creatures who\u2019ve accepted my\npresence here and show themselves unafraid: the hummingbirds and Steller\u2019s\nJays, the mule deer \u2013 young does eating the wildflowers and velvet-antlered bucks\ncoming out of the dark forest swamp below my property…where I fear to go\nalone with my dog, always seeing moose sign near the springs bubbling up out of\nthe forest floor, turning in circles in case I\u2019m cat-tracked by a mountain\nlion, waiting for that lethal pounce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  But, I\u2019m not that anxious to see if there\u2019s a\nheaven or if it\u2019s reincarnation. Not yet. If there is a heaven, I would\ncertainly hope to go there. I\u2019ve tried to live my life accordingly, with only a\nhandful of transgressions. And if it\u2019s reincarnation, I would hope to come back\nas a dog, and have someone like me as the owner\/guardian. That would be really\nnice. Not sure if I can let you know how that goes, though… <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  So, I stay out of the swamp, the boreal forest of my mind\u2019s eye, as the good hobbits tried to do with the Forest of Fangorn in The Lord of the Rings<\/em>, until given no other choice by those warg-riding Orcs and Uruk-hais, fortunate to find shelter with Treebeard and the ents. You gotta love those ents. I sure do. But, I digress…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  Yes, the summer is drawing down, and I must\nprepare to move out. I\u2019ll hook BroBo, the \u201cBronze Bomber\u201d Nissan Pathfinder, up\nto Cochise, a 1978 Holiday Rambler \u201cFree Spirit\u201d model, and see if that V-6 SUV\ncan handle a 19\u2019 tandem-axel travel trailer over hill and dale \u2013 and a mountain\npass \u2013 to get to my destination, wherever that may be. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  To be truthful, I have my concerns. To be\nblunt, I\u2019m scared witless. \u201cWhat ifs?\u201d keep popping up in my mind, and I try to\nknock them back down, only to see them pop up somewhere else in my thoughts\nlike some uncontrollable game of cerebral whack-a-mole. I need a cerebral\nshotgun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  What if…some car, truck or animal jumps in\nfront of me at 65 mph and I have to lock up the brakes? I have trailer brakes,\nbut I don\u2019t want to have to jump on them under those circumstances. If I go off\nthe road, I lose my home. Trailers don\u2019t handle accidents very well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I\u2019m not going to take the interstate through Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo pulling a camper. I don\u2019t like doing that without pulling something. I\u2019ll have to go east out onto the plains before heading south and take my chances on the two-lane highways, facing potential danger head-on every time a vehicle comes the other way. There are also deer, antelope and coyotes out there that don\u2019t look both ways before crossing a road. I\u2019d have to splat them, and hope they don\u2019t take out my radiator. I\u2019d eat the meat and tan their hides, to honor their spirits. But I\u2019d still have to get towed to a shop if they take out my radiator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  What if…I have to park in a deserted campground or wayside stop or maybe even a Walmart parking lot and some amped up tweakers decide at 3 am that I might be an easy mark for some cash or pawnables. I sleep with a pistol under my pillow, but I don\u2019t keep a round in the chamber. What if I don\u2019t rack it and squeeze off a shot in time? What if I do? Somebody might get killed, and I couldn\u2019t live with that \u2013 especially if I\u2019m the one who gets killed. Dat ain\u2019t good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

   What if… I do<\/em> make it down to New Mexico and find out it\u2019s not as enchanting as I\u2019d hoped. Do New Mexicans like Coloradoans? Are my green license plates going to make me a target? I\u2019ve noticed, in my lifetime, that border states don\u2019t always cotton to each other too well. In Wisconsin we talked trash about \u201cFIBs\u201d (F\u2019ing Illinois Bastards); in Wyoming, they don\u2019t always seem overly friendly to \u201cGreenies\u201d (referring to our license plates); anyone not from California or Texas might have their prejudices against drivers from California and Texas. I don\u2019t (honestly), but some people seem to. Stupid stuff, but real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  But I don\u2019t care – and I have no choice. I\ncan\u2019t stay here. The HOA doesn\u2019t allow it (you don\u2019t gotta love those HOAs \u2013 I\nsure don\u2019t), and neither will the weather. Yes, I live in the woods in the\nmountains, and I have a Home Owners Association (actually, two of them) telling\nme what I can and can\u2019t do. Welcome to America in the 21st<\/sup> Century.\nDon\u2019t get me going…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  So, I cowboy up and face my fears. It\u2019s all\nabout the adventure. And getting away from frigid weather. Having grown up in\nWisconsin and then spending a year in Alaska before moving to northern\nColorado, I\u2019ve never spent a year without snow, cold and icy roads in the\nwinter \u2013 except when I was 2 years old and my dad was stationed at Fort\nHuachuca just north of the border in Arizona. But, I don\u2019t remember that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  This is the reason I sold everything I didn\u2019t need, donated or tossed everything I couldn\u2019t sell, and bought a vintage trailer to live the life of a rubber tramp. It sounded romantic and carefree, and for the most part, it has been. But now it\u2019s time for the rubber to hit the road, and it\u2019s frightening. I don\u2019t even want to think of what could happen to Rambeaux if something happened to me. She\u2019s grown rather dependent upon me, and I upon her. I try not to think of any of these things, but just try to control your thoughts. Let me know how that<\/em> works out…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  I like to quote Mark Twain in these blogs. I just like the way that guy thought, and wrote. America\u2019s greatest storyteller was pretty witty with words. He said, \u201cWorrying is like paying a debt you don\u2019t owe,\u201d<\/em> and I\u2019ll take his word on that. If I<\/em> want to be a writer, I\u2019ve got to have things to write about, and you\u2019ve got to write about what you know (unless you\u2019re a fiction writer, which I\u2019m not). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  So, I\u2019ll prepare my ride and get my mind right. Lewis and Clark went from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean rowing, poling and pulling a fifty-five-foot wooden keelboat as far up the Missouri River as they could, and hoofed it over more mountain passes than they had imagined before building dugout canoes and shooting down raging rivers to the mouth of the Columbia. This should be easier than that. I sure hope so, anyway. I\u2019ll channel their explorer spirit and say \u201cOh, the joy!\u201d<\/em> when I crest Raton Pass and look down into New Mexico, as Meriwether Lewis exclaimed when the ocean came into view. And, dear reader, I\u2019ll let you know how that goes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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