The Lund Loop Daily Update: Colorado Edition - Day 5
A review of today's action and a look at the profit opportunities for the next trading day.
Note: I’m on vacation so the Daily Update this week will be (mostly) dispatches from Colorado. We’ll return to our normal program starting August 18th.
Many of you have sent in cards and letters asking, “Brian, just how do you produce this wonderful daily travelogue?”
Well, by nature, I am an early riser, so while my family sleeps, I slink out in the darkness and find a local Starbucks, where, fueled by copious amounts of English Breakfast tea and a corporate-approved playlist that somehow always includes John Mayer, I spend a couple of hours recapping the previous day’s events.
However, today, plans changed.
We’re currently staying at the Grand Hyatt Vail, which—though not as nice as The Four Seasons or the Ritz-Carlton—is no slouch as far as hotels go. And they have an absolutely beautiful main room where I planned to write this morning.
Only one problem: no tea or coffee service. Thus, I am back in Starbucks’s corporate clutches, and because the closest location was a decent drive away, this edition will be brief.
So far, this trip has been heavy on nature and beauty and light on history and human drama. But yesterday, we got a nice slice of learning.
It came in the form of Engine No. 9 at the High Line Railroad Park in Breckenridge. This gleaming black behemoth caught my eye on the way out of town, and we just had to stop. Take a look at the photo below and see if you can guess what that massive circular structure at the front is?
If you said “snowplow,” you got it right. If you said, “a Leslie-type rotary snowplow,” you probably should call up Jeopardy! and get yourself booked.
Turns out those are circular blades designed to cut through deep snow.
Stuff like this has been a common theme throughout our trip—proof of that uniquely American trait of “Oh, there’s an obstacle in our way? No problem—we’ll figure out a way around it.” We’ve seen these “solutions” in everything from roads cut through dense forest to holes blasted straight through a mountain.
Of course, it goes without saying, we never want to recklessly or irresponsibly exploit our planet. But the truth is, the country we’ve built—and the quality of life we enjoy—exists in large part because of that “can-do” spirit when it comes to taming nature.
And by the way, from what I’ve seen so far, nature is doing just fine. Take for example, these cormorants…
Or this moose.
Or these elk.
Or this eagle.
How about this family of raccoons?
And this majestic deer.
Even this horse seems to be doing just fine.
Yes, despite man’s interference, nature seem to be alive, well, and thriving in Colorado.
See you tomorrow for Day 6.
-B
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