Tiny little status update from the 2nd

It's a week later for all of you, and yet four posts later, it's still the same Friday evening at a Burger King. (What is linear time, anyway?)

And before I head out, I'm reminded that I took a couple pictures before I left home this morning, just to give y'all another glimpse into my life and into how things are going.

So anyhow, after the jump, I'll show you around.

Kent Chamberlain and the River of Treasure: Pictures

As alluded to in my last post, I photographed two things between Denver and Green River: a fire near Avon, and a rest area by the Colorado River with gold on it. So here's the other pic of that fire, oriented as a portrait, which makes it annoying to use in mixed media like blogs because it takes up more picture space than a landscape, which is why I didn't use it in the other post. (You would be surprised to see my blogging process: I put altogether too much effort trying to find just the right pics, in just the right proportions to maximize the amount of pictures in each article without making it looking crowded with pictures. Hopefully I succeed, but I digress.)

In any case, after the jump, literally every single other picture is going to be from that rest area.

Kent Chamberlain and the River of Treasure

When last we left off, yours truly seemed to be stranded in Denver with no way back.

This was possible to endure. First off, as soon as that Patreon payment went through, I'd be able to leave. Second off, living and driving everywhere in one's RV means the only obstacle to staying somewhere is finding parking. Thanks to years of experience, I know a few places where I can park for the night for free in Denver; some for several nights if necessary. So if I had to, I could wait for the payment.

That seemed suboptimal, however, as my dad would say. For one, the crops I'd left behind were just starting to show their real promise. For another, I really hate not being in control of so fundamental a situation as where I can go.

Happy Fourth of July, y'all! Keep cool in this heat.

How am I celebrating? I don't know. It's not Sunday the 4th yet as I type this, but only Friday the 2nd. I probably bought some hot dogs to grill (not burgers, because I buy burgers every time I come here to post), maybe the smallest jar of mayonnaise I can buy to use before it goes bad so I can make potato salad, maybe I bought a watermelon since mine aren't even fruiting yet.

Grilling outside isn't really unusual for me these days. I've taken to even heating up the water for my morning coffee on my outside grill, because even at 7:00 in the goddamn AM, it is too hot to be heating up the house any further with cooking fires. Once the realization set in that it was generally going to be this way until at least September, I decided to take further action.

Kent Chamberlain and the Front Range Quest: Pictures

As promised, here's a bunch of pics from the last post. Make the jump to see the full set.