there have to be many guards who live on
the mountain for his two grand to be the
creation of only one
for years it was in my best interest for
people not to know who I was or what I
did simply because most of what I did
was illegal I was trespassing I was
stealing
and I was smuggling
hey what's going on man how about one of
your famous margaritas you wanna follow
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there have been a lot of inspirations of
professional treasure hunters that have
gone before me and I have admired I
respected them I grew up wanting to be
like them and I thought well I'll follow
their path but then I'll try to do
better and they did I grew up on a lot
of folklore and my mom reading Grimm's
fairy tales to me it's easy for kids to
fantasized to inflict themselves into
those tales become part of those sails
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that was an adult before I realized that
I was poor as a kid I was raised by a
single mom we grew up on what people
would say the other side of the tracks
I don't recall being unhappy about a
darn thing it seemed like there was
always an adventure for a kid who was
looking for adventure I learned very
quickly that it is not so much the
acquisition of gold or silver or other
precious metal that satisfied me it was
in fact the quest and it was the
experience of having been involved in
trying to locate something that may have
been missing for 150 250 350 years
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one of the most famous lost minds in the
history of the United States is called
the lost Adams diggings Adams in a party
of miners entered this remote canyon in
pan an incredible wealth of gold out of
the little stream that flowed through
the canyon people have been searching
for this for a hundred and fifty years
over a 200 square mile area I personally
have been looking for it for 40 years
and I found it this is the first of
several expeditions into this Canyon to
harvest the gold
I've been asked several times what if
you go out on this next trip and
something happens to you and you don't
come back well the truth is something is
going to happen to all of this
eventually I can honestly say I'm never
more alive than when I
involved in the hunt there are
philosophers there are seers there are
spiritual people far more intelligent
than I who talk about the journey beyond
death I like to think that there Israel
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I'm stoned get live old Valley slow
moving River like the Ferdinand Texas
where connections that I've made with
the environment with the spiritual with
the heavens with the earth as a result
of a lot of these adventures cannot be
measured that's something that I
treasure
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