I've took 2 trips across the playa to Double Hot Springs then along an old mining road to the Clapper/Lassen Murder Site and then left via High Rock Canyon. Each trip was a month long and the only life I saw were feral horses, pronghorn and mule deer. In High Rock Canyon an Oregon bound pioneer left his name and date, 1852.
@sophiemeaden agree - The U.S. is far worse then the U.K. for what is coming. Street by street, block by block, contesting with 200 ethnic/religious/language/racial/territorial actors all in the mix. Nothing like it has ever been seen. "The horror" will be an understatement.
Occam's Razor - Clovis was first. The 24,000-year-old Mal’ta boy in Siberia carried the Ancient North Eurasian ancestry that mixed with East Asians to create Native Americans. The Anzick Clovis child is their direct genetic heir—closest to the peoples of Central and South America, exactly as expected from a rapid southward expansion. Distinctive Clovis technology appears suddenly and coherently, coast to coast into Mexico, with unmistakable cultural continuity, timed with the megafauna collapse. Every claimed older site is an isolated one-off: varying dates, no shared artifacts, no continuous tradition. Northern groups only look different because of later Asian arrivals. The coherent archaeological and genetic record belongs to Clovis.
I'm an old man now and I do smile and talk to people. I am thought harmless now. When I was young, I would have hesitated to smile or try to speak to you for fear that you would think I was hitting on you. You are very attractive. The good news is that when you are my age, you will find people engaging, smiling and chatting you up. That might compensate for the failing eye sight, bad back, etc - ha. take care
The movie "Patton" had a scene where he visits an old battle field in North Africa and claims "I was here 2000 years ago....." I was a 11B2P (Airborne Infantryman) in '68 with the 173rd. I visited VN in 2013 and it was as if we were never there. I take pills to not dream about it.
@ElofsonJess@realericmoutsos Better to have 10 buddies armed with single shot 22s then alone with a mountain of ammo and a machine gun. If you can survive the first year there will be a lot fewer people around at the end of it,
@nmlinguaphile Ethnic boundary enforcement. Courtship across language barriers is more difficult. Latin diverged into Italian, French, Spanish, etc in a short time even with the Catholic church keeping Latin alive in all those nations.
@weeglesgapoet I am an atheist and that belief was tested as a combat infantryman in VN. But I loved my buddies and I was always grateful that they had faith. Faith may just be a lucky mindset but it could be God's gift to comfort in a hard world. Hold it tight.
@cummingsjoelc @Oklahoma_Brave A buddy of mine in VN fantasized about breeding giant ants to hump our gear and water up the jungle covered mountains. 6 legs, low profile and mandibles to cut through the bush.