So..yes the people of Fort Collins are pretty weird. At first they thought we were a gang of marauders.... here to torch the countryside....and then they found out we were survivors from off in the ashlands and welcomed us into the town with open arms then one of the ladies....I use that term lightly...noticed we had firearms, nailed Rogan with a rock right in the face and everything went to hell with her shrieking about us being gun toting murderers from the wilds out to kill the whole town... It did not help that with Rogan knocked to the ground and blood gushing from his head (she played softball at Colorado U apparently) and Eivan yelling at her in Russian pointing a rifle at her did not help things. The local police showed up and once we managed to talk Eivan down we all got arrested and disarmed. It's a wonder we didn't wind up shot yesterday.

And somehow Scott slept through all of this.

Thankfully once our statements were made and Rogan got medical treatment, as well as a few witnesses from the town backing up our version of events we were released, and now we're trying to barter our weapons back, which is currently... an interesting situation as according to the officer I spoke with earlier, three of the rifles were "misplaced". It was like pulling teeth from a chicken just to get the laptop back.

I almost told him that we've hiked and lived in the ashlands for over 400 miles and a year and a half, they are effectively extensions of ourselves and by god if some greedy damn cops just freakin take. I'm just going to stop here and not voice my full opinion.

.....Sorry bit of rage there. It's kinda pissing me off that they "lost" my rifle.


So yeah... interesting reception in Fort Collins...I want to leave and...I swear I never thought I'd say this I want to head back into the wastes...