This is a petrified log, about 40 feet long and about 25 miles from my house.

This is an Aubergine Mesa Trail, about a mile long and about 25 miles to my door.

And this is the seed of a plan.

It will cost 20 or 25 dollars in gas each time to get out to these places of extraordinary beauty, do my daily hoof there, maybe film while I’m at it.

After today I am no longer destitute, but still, seven gallons worth is too expensive for everyday.

Maybe more like once every week or two, I’ll be able to afford it for a night, or two. (There are very limited truck-camping options and I have at least one very limited truck-camper.)

I can and will spend on that much, and make the most of it, and fill in with walking the Leroux or the Colorado Pequeno closer to home for average quotidian purposes. Yea, even unto the Fragment and the more citified ducks.

Whatever it takes.

Always striving.