It is July 18th as I write
this post. The Internet here is intermittent at best and with the busy past week it has been difficult to find time to write a post and impossible to post one if I had. This post will follow one day, July 10th, and the next
post will cover Five days.
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When I was younger and living in
Colorado those of us who were either native to the state of long time
residents, I came to Colorado as an eight year old and moved away 34
years later, had a saying that Texicans were trying to buy the state
and we were going to make sure they didn't succeed. Our well
intentioned hyperbole was just a lot of hot air but time did have a
way of altering attitudes and intentions. Colorado changed and with
Denver as the locus the state became very young, increasingly liberal
politically and skeptical of any line of seeming b.s., which some
folks seemed to particularly prone to. This change in times, for
Colorado, sent the “blow-hard” types elsewhere.
Don't take this as disparaging because
over the years some of the finest folk I have met came from Texas and
certainly were not prone to excessive hubris and I am happy to call
them friends. With this in mind the story continues.....
We rode the west bound train from Antonito to Chama this day,
July 10th. We were fortunate to have an excellent Docent,
“Tom”, a young man in his 40's who hails from Texas as many
volunteers seem to. He understanding of the Cumbres and Toltec was
remarkable as he wove aspects of history, operation, geology, flora &
fauna and engineering together in a fascinating package. He was an
excellent subject to emulate if I was to be successful as a Docent.
We were tired but happy as the day
ended uneventfully.
At this point I had not picked-up my studies for two weeks, that proved to be a rather significant mistake.
