El último hurra, segunda casa

Just a nice guy who knows who he is and where he's suppose to be.

I was president and founder for 25 years of a large indoor soccer company. The managers worked really hard. We all did. I wanted to find a place to get away, where we could escape from the grind. I wanted something in the boonies. Driving to our Boise facility I saw people walk out of their homes, get in their canoes, and get in the Snake River. I need a river. Driving through West Texas coming back from our Houston and Austin facilities I saw folks walk out of their homes and get on their dirt bikes and on their atvs and take off down dirt trails. I need dirt trails.

It went like that.

Sometimes I would find a property that had some things, but not all things. Sometimes I’d find something new and the hunt would grow more difficult with more requirements. Then, years later I hit the wall. I was done with 100 hour weeks and I needed an escape. I escalated my hunt for a property in the boonies. I started focusing on the four corners area central to most of our locations.

After looking at 50 or so properties my Moab real estate agent Randy Day told me about a property on the other side of Hurrah Pass. I tried to get out here to view it in the BMW but in those days the road was rough and I tore the BMW all up. Four flats and four bent rims. That's how I met Nations Towing.

Turns out Base Camp has everything and so much more. I bought this place nineteen years ago without knowing about the Wind Caves, Chicken Corner, Anti-Cline, Amasa Back, pottery sherds, arrowhead flakes, ancient dwellings, rock art, the critters of all kinds, dino tracks, fossils, all types of geology, the night sky, the quiet, the unlimited hikes and on and on. There has never been a day I haven’t appreciated what surrounds me. There never will be.

Things to know:

Things don’t stay the same. The road changes, a rock falls down, there is a rain storm, anything can change the road. It may be fine in the morning and deteriorate in the afternoon. Sometimes we don't have a beach during snow melt and the beach locations could change. In June and early July generally we have mosquitoes. Few this year. We have a Milky Way most nights. In December and January it’s more difficult to see than mid summer. I have a six seater side by side. Sometimes it breaks. I might not have one while you are here. It's pretty rare. I feed critters at night on the front porch of the lodge. Some nights some critters don’t come or they take a long time to come. Kobae usually hangs out on the porch in March, April, and May. Once it gets hot he retreats in his hole and I generally only see him once a day when he comes out to eat. End of August he’ll want to go hiking every day. He’s not here from mid November thru late February.