I'm back from vacation after a week of fishing. Nothing like Mexico to calm you down and lift your spirits. It turned into an adventure when we got hit by Hurricane Norbert. Damn, I wish I had brought along my metal detector for the beaches were torn up! Now I'm back and can't wait to get back into the hills. Too much sun and not enough trees seem to make me feel ......lost. To be able to climb a mountain or drink out of a cold stream makes this mountain man smile. Funny how the stress of work can fade but really never goes away. The vacation always ends too soon and your job seems forever. You look forward to this interruption all year, and then it's over in a flash.

Now, prospecting or exploring is in a different class of its own. There are always the weekends to look forward to all year long (when you're not working them) even if it's just one day. When you're in the mountains looking for gold, it does not matter if you find it or not, because just seeing the sun rise above the mountain peaks with the morning breeze carrying the music of nature just waking up...Hell, that's the best treasure anybody could find! Don't get me wrong, vacations are great, but that is just one or two weeks out of the year. Now, when you're a prospector, you can count on 52 weekends a year, with some of those weekends lasting for three days! Damn, that figures out to be over 104 days in a year that you can plan a mini-vacation doing what you love. Crap, I'm feeling pretty good right about now...how about you?

Day or night, gold always shines.
nightrider




      Son Delando fighting Hurricane Norbert 

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