Hello Fellow blogging world!
Didn't sleep well last night, because I had treasure hunting on my mind....Yep, you heard right, treasure hunting. Have you heard about that guy who apparently hid about 2 million dollars worth of stuff somewhere in the rocky mountains, and he left a poem full of clues? Well I have read and reread the poem several times.... and it kept me up thinking. He has given other clues to where it is hidden. This is what I have researched/found out so far:
-The treasure is located above 5000 ft in elevation.
-It is north of Sante Fe, New Mexico
-Somewhere close, where you could drive to, and since he was 80 years old when he hid it and it apparently weighs 42 pounds, it isn't in a bizarre place...like having to hike up to the top of a huge mountain (but this one throws me off, because.....If you knew my grandpa at 80, he could totally have done that).
-Lots of people think it is somewhere in NM, but I have read several places that say he never said that, only that it was north of Sante Fe, NM.
-It is surrounded by trees, but seriously this could also be anywhere.
This is the Poem, where it has apparently several clues, and he says to start from the first one, "Where the warm waters halt." If you start with another clue, it won't work, so you need to work them out in order.
So here is my thinking of the list of clues in order...
1-Warm water halts- A hot spring that flows into a river or creek?? Maybe.....I have found several (like hundreds) in the rocky mountains.
2-"Take it in the canyon down, not far, but too far to walk": A hot spring that flows into a creek that flows down a canyon alongside a road.....
3-"Put in below the home of brown" : I pretty much get stuck here.....Home of brown? hmmm, I have looked up some historical places with the "home of brown" in it, don't come up with much... Lots of ideas are flowing through my head on this one.
- An old cabin, that is brown, or the tenants of the cabin were once named Brown. So maybe there is a cabin near by?
-could be maybe talking about people who lived in cliff dwellings, there are a lot of those in NM, and they are kind of brown.
-Maybe there is an old legendary bear called "brown" That used to make its home in a cave nearby....I would be a bit freaked out to venture into that cave though.
-One lady thinks that it is a home of the brown recluse spider...Maybe, but wouldn't the spiders be dead by now...
4- From this point on in the poem, I get a bit confused at what the actual clues are, like "No place for the meek", or "The end is drawing nigh". Are those clues? Or are they just part of the poem to make it continue on?
5- The next clue (I think), "If you have been wise and found the blaze". Hmmm so being wise....and finding a blaze....I am still drawing a blank to this one. Maybe there is a legend out there of an old wise blaze... of something... Maybe a really old rock that looks like it is on fire. There are a lot of interesting looking rocks in Yellowstone, that have some pretty cool colors. They are really orange, and maybe there is one that looks like it's shaped like a blaze. Or maybe I'm thinking this whole blaze thing wrong....Maybe blaze doesn't mean a fire like object. Next sentence, I think, Goes along with this clue, but again I am not sure. "Look quickly down, your quest to cease". Pretty much I think that is saying, look down and you will find it......hopefully :)
*Side note, I know I use a lot of periods, it is my way of putting long pauses for thinking. I know it will really bug some people, but it is just what I do.
I have lots of more ideas, but I will settle with this for now :)
