Cannon City
Tuesday, April 4, 2006 at 04:00PM So Sarah and I are looking for just a little bit of land to buy before it all gets developed. Today I called a fellow who has a couple of acres to sell. It's near the Royal Gorge and sounds like a nice place to put up a tent. Now before I offer you the transript of the call I'll give you some excerpts of the landowner's Internet ad:
Has an older (1950's?) 12X50 Mobile home. Fully Furnished.
Will also throw in the old 195? Studebaker P/U bed trailer parked there.
Can shoot your gun...There are Elk, Deer, Bear, Turkey, Cougar to hunt in the area as well.
It sounds a little like the redneck Killing Fields. So I call to perhaps play a role in reclaiming it's natural splendor.
Seller: Now the local sheriff doesn’t mind if you ride motorcycles or four-wheelers on the ‘letter’ roads like K and L, but just stay off of Copper gulch.
Woman in background: “well he doesn’t much mind that either”
Me: Do you have neighbors (that have not been shot?)
Seller: Yah, some. But You CAN shoot guns there. I had my 7 mil’ out the other day.
Woman in background: “shootin’ in the gulch."
Seller: Yah, there's a gulch.
Me: Good. A gulch.
Woman in background: "tell him about the trailer!"
Seller: It has furniture and a pot-belly stove and maybe a dishwasher. But it’s from the 50’s.
Me: But there's no power?
Woman in background: "Tell him about the Studebaker!"
Seller: We cut off a bed to an old Studebaker and made a trailer. We're givin' that to the buyer.
Me: Is there water?
Woman in background: "Tell him about the Disney land thing!"
Me: Disney Land?
Seller: Oh yah, the son of the guy who built the gorge is going to build like a big amusement park thing.
Me: So you say you can shoot guns there, eh?
We're going to check it out this Thursday afternoon.
