What does The Idiot do after almost completing a book, nuzzling cowboys, visiting a dude ranch, increasing his hiking steps, studying petroglyphs and sightseeing around Durango, Colorado?
The Idiot needs just a few more days to complete production of The Paris Metro 40th Anniversary Issue: The Book About Paris Yesterday.
While there’s a lot to do in Colorado, there’s only so much California touch-feely attitude that The Idiot can impart to local cowboys without getting thrown in the hoosegow.
The Idiot got up close and personal with a cowboy on Main Street in Durango.
(Photo: Aaron Patterson)
He intimately discussed outlaws, gambling, ladies and the old west with a cowboy on Blair Street, the old red light district in Silverton.
(Photo: Russ Monell)
The Idiot also speeded up his hiking steps as he continues rehab from back surgery seven weeks ago and attempts to get in shape to return to the MedTrek in Gaza and Egypt in November.
Hiking in the hills above Durango, CO.
(Photo: Aaron Patterson)
Trekking in Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park.
(Photo: Sara Stratte)
He also did a bit of sightseeing.
The Idiot obeyed traffic signs on a dude ranch.
He gallivanted in downtown Silverton.
He went high into the mountains north of Durango, CO.
He boated to the lone tree on Lake Vallecito, which he figured was the spirit of an ancestral princess who drowned while training for a triathlon.
The Idiot even relaxed.
The Idiot played Scrabble in the shade on the Animas River with Christian Fryer, a childhood friend from Redding, CA.
He studied petroglyphs in the Mesa Verde National Park.
He did some trainspotting between Durango and Silverton.
He took pictures of Sara Stratte — his 21-year-old niece who’s working on a number of historic preservation projects in Texas, Colorado and Wyoming — while hiking in the Mesa Verde National Park.
So what now?
The Idiot will leisurely drive back to California after celebrating Bastille Day in Colorado.
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