Re: How's your finance?
Ah! Since Don Jose De La Mancha has graced my post with short respite from el Real de Tayopa,
I'll present my Canadian mining tale... I've heard tell of great prospects far up north!
When I was a young buck and knew SO much more than I do now, I was hitching a ride from one town,
to the next, most likely just enjoying the fine California weather...
An old codger gave me a lift, and free advice, on the short trip...
He was a decent sort, kinda dressed western, and he looked kinda spunky/scrappy... confident.
After a short conversation, he commences to tell me that if he were a young man he'd head off to Cash Creek, up in Canada, with a prospecting rig.
No roads up there, he says. Buy a mule to carry your gear in, as far as you can get with him, in the summer, and build yourself a shack to get through the winter. The mule will join you for dinner.
When spring breaks, you can complete your trip in, work a prospect over the summer months, and do quite well for yourself.
He warned me, "If you don't leave before the first snow, it could get rough on you..."
Just about then he stopped to let me off and advised me the Canadians wouldn't take kindly to me waltzing over their border with a poke of gold, so I'd need to deal with that.
I quickly asked, "How well did you do?"
He said, "I'll be 62 next month, and I never went back..."