I’ve put almost 20 years and a lot of money into my current retreat and future forever home in retirement. Only death or incarceration will prevent me from spending the rest of my life as a fixture in the Trans-Pecos. Hiking the Chisos and Chihuahuan desert, stargazing, paddling the Rio Grande and Devils River, picking guitars with the other desert weirdos and our dogs. It’s the golden years I’ve known I wanted since I was 19 and spent 30 days of primitive camping, hiking, and paddling in Brewster County. I’ve traveled the world, lived abroad in Europe in my 20s, and have been able to visit most places I wanted to experience before retirement. I can’t concisely summarize my disgust and disappointment with where we find ourselves, but I’ve spent too much time dreaming and doing the work to manifest the vision of my retirement to let it be ruined by these traitors and oligarchs. Damn them all. They’re not chasing me away. Again only death or incarceration will stop me going out the way I want.