Still In Mexico, This is way too long.... Oh well Options

[Twystd1]

Hello all,
Geezzz i never realized how much I miss this forum and the friends I have met here.

I found a internet cafe in Durango Mexico. YEAH...!!!!!!

I didnt realize what it was like to be without a computer and a cell phone for weeks on end.

I thought I would check in and see how everyone is doing.
And give ya a blurb on what up with da Twystd1

I just finished the Brad thread. That was one of the most amazing and envigorating pieces I have read in years.

It forced me take a look at myself and see where i had made mistakes in my own life. And review a few mistakes I made with a couple of the crew here on this forum.

I owe them. And I know it.

One more time... A gift from the club.

I am in beeeeUtiful downtown Durango,DGO Mexico. Where the women are georgeous and the food is cheap. Great place for a single guy. Who cant speak spanish worth a dam. But I am learning.

Í have been excavating Spanish Conquistador era gold and silver mines for a couple of weeks now.

It is absolutely amazing to walk on the same path as these explorers. To touch the stones they carved and feel a bit sad to know that most of the work was done by indian slave labor.

The areas I am in is so far from civilization it almost defys description.

Right next ton very old mine, we ate off the same pappaya trees that the Spanish planted 500 years ago. Actually it is the offspring of the original trees.

These mines are so far into the interior of the Sierra Madres. Even the Locals don't have names for some of these mountains. It is a trip to have 90 degree days with a hail storm lasting twenty minutes show up in the niddle of the day.

Thee are natual springs everywhere. Ya don't know how good water is until you have walked up and down mountains all day at 10K feet and higher and run out of water and KNOW if ya look around. You can find a natural spring. Just look for lotsa green stuff growing. Dig a shallow hole. VOILA. Insta water.

Ya have to imagen what it is like to have a base camp at 10,000 feet and crawl up to mines. How the Spanish got this ore to the coast is something I can't even imagine.

How did they traverse a mountain side that took me two days to climb with one mule and an alpacca? They had to go another 200 miles in the most insane terain imagiable. That again is the mystery of the Sierra Madres.

Compases and GPS won't work. The magnetite in the mountains are so strong at some points I am lucky a flashlight works. I t even (apparently) bends thge radio waves so that even the GPS can't find sattelites. I know leave all the electronic crap in the city. We now travel by instinct and stars.

Almost got nailed by EL Diablo (Black Panther) last week.
I was stuck on the side of a mountain when the sun set. Had to camp on the side of the mountain with a couple of locals. Woke up in the middle of the night. Was staring at two big eyes in the moonlight. Was a panther. Bout ten feet from me. I just stayed silent and stared back at him. There was a moment of what I felt like there was a kind of friendly conversation between the cat and my spirit.
He was gone before I could see or hear where he went. Spooky and wonderful all at the same time.

Wacky, scary and wonderful stuff happens like that every day in the Sierra Madres. I can't take photos. The growers would kill me if they saw a camera. They would have to assume I was a federally or a policia looking for narco trafficantes. I just go all over hell with my jugs of water and a chipping hammer. Most of time, they leave me alone.

Tomorrow I go back into the Siera Madres to search under a approx.430 year old spanish general store that only has the foundation left. The story goes that there is a cave about 30 feet below the foundation that has gold, guns, silver, and six dead horses buried with it. Was closed during the spanish revolution by the guy that originally found the treasure. I met his (70 year old) son on a mountain side a few weeks ago. he told me the story. Now I am going after the goods. I just have to figure out how to shore up a 10 foot around X 30 foot deep hole without any tools except hand tools. Should be a calculation nightmare. Oh yeah. Lest we forget the neuro toxins from the dead horses. Am scared shitless about getting good men hurt on this project. But the Mexican mountain men in the Siera Madres are an amazing lot. They can make a car out of a tin can. Simply amazing people.

OK, I could write for hours. This is my only chance to use english and I am relishing in it at the moment.

Thanks for giving me a place to touch base with my brothers and my friends.

May your God give you the gifts that I am getting right now.

Love ya all...

Twystd1

PS: SKLINE, yur still ugly......
Matt, hope ya like the paint
Aaron: My barefooted brother.
Slits: I want to be crusty like you when I grow up.
Mueller: I wish I knew you better. I would like to learn from you.
Spunone: Dude does anyone really know how good you are in aluminum?
All Else: Thanks for creating a good place for all of us.

[SLITS]

Enough of the bullshit......when's the next shipment due?

[Mueller]

Learn from me, ain't I like half your age?? (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)


Sounds like a blast....I've only camped out like twice in life.........

What you actually trying to find??

Are you nervous about getting kidnapped??
(maybe I watch too much TV)

[Aaron Cox]

ahhh - got my pm my brother (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)

have fun - when can we expect you back in the US? 1 month? 2 months? a year?

live life my friend - we'll be here when ja get back mon.....

laterz
AA

[Twystd1]

Tain't afraid of the kidnapping. Am dam sure afraid of getting shot by the local farmers. Cause they don't grow corn in these parts. If ya know what I mean.

Mike, you are always asking dam good technical questions.
And I learn everytime you get an answer on this board.

Hell I learn vicariously from all of you. I just happen to like the technical questions you pose. They follow my thinking. And there ya go..!!

Oh and SLITS, I will save you a special piece of ROCK for the next time I see you.

You can't smoke it. But you can make a ring out of it.

Twystd1

Twystd1

[Toast]

What an amazing journey! Sounds like you are having a wonderful experience. Tell us more when you get back from "Retirement" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beerchug.gif)

[Dr Evil]

Get a job already (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

P.S. You didn't mention me (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/sad.gif) Just 'cause I don't put out like the others?

[Twystd1]

Mike I didn't mention you on purpose.
There might be some of those loco farmers reading this. And I know you know most of em..... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif)

Guilty by association...... (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/huh.gif)

Hell I wear my 914world.com hat on every expedition.
I am muy famoso for the hat at this point. So they have to be reading this.... (sure they are)

So Mike, lets get to the meat of the matter. When are going to give up on your chick so I can have her?
Unless of course Scott gets to her before me.....
Were taking numbers (except for Aaron)

By the way. I miss you too you knuckle head.
Cause you are almost as ugly as Scott....

Twystd1

[redshift]

I have been down in the crap for an extended period! YUCK!

Thank the good Lord for A/C! WOOHOO!

Be safe!


M

[MattR]

Clayton,

When are you gonna be back? I need to have a word with you as soon as possible.

-Matt

[scotty b]

Due, I am SO insanly fuchin jealous. I always wanted to go into archeology as a kid (and still as an "adult" (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif) ) Went on a lot of fossil digs, but had to make a choice at some point and went with cars (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif) I'd give almost anything to be there for a while. Keep it up and post some pics!! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)

[Twystd1]

Matt.. PM me. I don't have e-mail.
I will try to pick up the PM tonight.

If I have to.. I will call you.......

But it's gotta be ebrief.....

PM me bro...
Am waiting...

Da Twystd1

[Twystd1]

ScottyB,
I am not doing this just for fun.

Ya see my friend.. This is an expedition that is in part of my end result... retirement.

It ain't all fun and games.

This is hard work and as scary as hell.

Then again. I'm gunna be dead in twenty or thirty years of simply old age.

So I am simply grabbing my balls and living my dream.

Will let you know what happens eventually. If you don't hear from me. Well thats the price one sometimes has to pay to live a full life.

I refuse to sit in front of a computer screen for another twenty years and look back and say I didn't gab my huevos and take some big risks.

Life is too Fuchen short...

So there ya are my friend...........

Twystd1

[scotty b]

Well I don't think any of us do our jobs "just for fun" but some of us do have fun at werk and I'm betting you do! Am I right? I didn't want to go into that field for the kicks alone, I wanted to make some loot too, after all isn't that the point, to have fun, love what you do and make a living? Enjoy it while you got it!

[BMartin914]

Sounds like fun! Never know what tomorrow is going to bring! Keep your wits about you and make it home safe. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif)

[rick 918-S]

Amazing story! Your living the dream. Be safe man. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wavey.gif)

[rhodyguy]

badges? BADGES!!!? WE DON'T NEED NO STINKING BADGES!!!

k

[lagunero]

Damn Clayton I wish I had known you were still there. I was within 4 hours from you for the last two weeks!

[spunone]

Good Luck and take care .Damm your one Crazy MO FO (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/beer.gif)

[Rotary'14]

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Take care, come back and tell some good stories. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/aktion035.gif)