Karma Catches Up

My task completed, I packed my bags, loaded a spare fuel tank and set off at 4:00am for Colorado. “Nothing without providence” proclaims the state seal of Colorado and with a little providence I was hoping to find abandoned mines, mills, and ghost towns with no prior research.

These explorations involved a substantial amount of legwork through the San Juan mountains, all the while carrying my gear on my back hoping for photo ops.

When I played the Oregon Trail as a child I never gave a second thought to cutting the wagon train down to meager rations when funds ran low. Camping in the San Juan’s on a pack of saltines and a can of beans a day gave me time to consider how decisions made so casually by a third grader could result in this terrible e-karma.

Are meager meals and ice cold mountain run-off baths worth the treasures I might not find? As long as I live to tell about it...

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