Post by CJ on Jul 15, 2018 11:32:25 GMT -5
Long post, but I'll explain since it's been a long time since I posted The Alamo solve.
You can find it on google, but not google earth (or any map)....I did actually go there - have been there before - but went again after coming up with this solve just to see if I could come up with where to go to next....I emailed him about it some time ago - without answer - of course.
I have posted that (partial) solution before...and I know everyone dismisses it. It's the sign (bronze plaque) on the (door to) The Alamo which reads:
"Be Silent Friend. Here Heroes Died To Blaze A Trail For Other Men."
www.lostdestinations.com/sanantonio/sanalamo004.jpg
Now, I never thought that it was in San Antonio, or The Alamo....but when you look down at this place, you find the line (also in bronze) from "Colonel Travis The Line" sculpture by James Muir....not the statue - just the line. I imagine they moved the statue somewhere else at some point...I'm not sure.
www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXSANalamoline_andy1.jpg
My idea was that warm waters halted where Marvin Died and you take the train (NFBTFTW) south to San Antonio...canyon down might be canyon lake (but I don't think the train goes by the lake, so that's a stretch), my home of brown was New Braunfels...."Brown Rock" in German....That's pretty good, no matter what you think of the solve. I actually went to Temple when I thought of this - just to see if I could get a feel for the place and see if there were any other clues to be had there (I didn't find any).
No place for the meek was the Alamo itself....End is ever drawing nigh and no paddle up your creek makes sense in this context though - there's also a river there. Heavy loads and water high were the cannons that couldn't get there because of the flooded river....or could have been cannons at the Alamo.
My thinking was that this BLAZE (the word blaze - "in a word - yes") made perfect sense...but that this, and the line meant for you to continue on to one of the treasure states....One good link was to the Elfego Baca statue, also by James Muir - and aptly named "One Man One War"....that was pretty compelling.
www.jamesmuir.com/elfego-baca-lifesize-bronze-sculpture.htm
Alas, Reserve, NM is WAY too far south (although at 108 45 28W, I would have lost it if it had been at 109)....I'll likely visit that place anyway on my next search trip.
It's PROBABLY not a thing - most everyone dismisses this because it STARTS in Texas - but the Alamo is a VERY special place to Texans....sacred....and that El Fego Baca story - well, I believe that this is the kind of thing Fenn would be SUPER intrigued by....and kind of interesting when thinking of "My War for Me".
I'll be really happy if any of that turns out to be related - it made pretty good sense at the time and I arrived at this in a weird, backward kind of way - where I had started looking in NM near Battleship Rock, down Dark Canyon, and found my way to Alamo Springs - when I thought "Oh man, there MUST be a tie to the Alamo - no place is more special to a Texan than that." (I happen to live in Houston). I went on to believe that the poem had to be solved twice....that THIS BLAZE points to the next place - which may have another where warm waters halt.....maybe Elfego Baca's death would continue the story? Don't know - and haven't come up with a 2nd compelling place to go since.
It IS a LITTLE interesting that his latest scrapbook pointed back at San Antonio though, isn't it?
I know most everyone thinks it's bunk, but frankly, I haven't seen anything else, anywhere, that has a blaze that you look down from at anything interesting....it's not marks on a tree, and I don't think it's a big white rock....in a word - Yes....I think he meant it was a word, it's on a door and doesn't face in any particular direction (depends on whether the door is open or closed, etc...) - I still love the solve - even if it's wrong....and if the line takes you to Reserve, NM and then on to another wwwh, that would be pretty interesting - and also pretty simple and straight-forward without anything other than the poem...no coordinates, anagrams, or anything else needed.
You can find it on google, but not google earth (or any map)....I did actually go there - have been there before - but went again after coming up with this solve just to see if I could come up with where to go to next....I emailed him about it some time ago - without answer - of course.
I have posted that (partial) solution before...and I know everyone dismisses it. It's the sign (bronze plaque) on the (door to) The Alamo which reads:
"Be Silent Friend. Here Heroes Died To Blaze A Trail For Other Men."
www.lostdestinations.com/sanantonio/sanalamo004.jpg
Now, I never thought that it was in San Antonio, or The Alamo....but when you look down at this place, you find the line (also in bronze) from "Colonel Travis The Line" sculpture by James Muir....not the statue - just the line. I imagine they moved the statue somewhere else at some point...I'm not sure.
www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/tx/TXSANalamoline_andy1.jpg
My idea was that warm waters halted where Marvin Died and you take the train (NFBTFTW) south to San Antonio...canyon down might be canyon lake (but I don't think the train goes by the lake, so that's a stretch), my home of brown was New Braunfels...."Brown Rock" in German....That's pretty good, no matter what you think of the solve. I actually went to Temple when I thought of this - just to see if I could get a feel for the place and see if there were any other clues to be had there (I didn't find any).
No place for the meek was the Alamo itself....End is ever drawing nigh and no paddle up your creek makes sense in this context though - there's also a river there. Heavy loads and water high were the cannons that couldn't get there because of the flooded river....or could have been cannons at the Alamo.
My thinking was that this BLAZE (the word blaze - "in a word - yes") made perfect sense...but that this, and the line meant for you to continue on to one of the treasure states....One good link was to the Elfego Baca statue, also by James Muir - and aptly named "One Man One War"....that was pretty compelling.
www.jamesmuir.com/elfego-baca-lifesize-bronze-sculpture.htm
Alas, Reserve, NM is WAY too far south (although at 108 45 28W, I would have lost it if it had been at 109)....I'll likely visit that place anyway on my next search trip.
It's PROBABLY not a thing - most everyone dismisses this because it STARTS in Texas - but the Alamo is a VERY special place to Texans....sacred....and that El Fego Baca story - well, I believe that this is the kind of thing Fenn would be SUPER intrigued by....and kind of interesting when thinking of "My War for Me".
I'll be really happy if any of that turns out to be related - it made pretty good sense at the time and I arrived at this in a weird, backward kind of way - where I had started looking in NM near Battleship Rock, down Dark Canyon, and found my way to Alamo Springs - when I thought "Oh man, there MUST be a tie to the Alamo - no place is more special to a Texan than that." (I happen to live in Houston). I went on to believe that the poem had to be solved twice....that THIS BLAZE points to the next place - which may have another where warm waters halt.....maybe Elfego Baca's death would continue the story? Don't know - and haven't come up with a 2nd compelling place to go since.
It IS a LITTLE interesting that his latest scrapbook pointed back at San Antonio though, isn't it?
I know most everyone thinks it's bunk, but frankly, I haven't seen anything else, anywhere, that has a blaze that you look down from at anything interesting....it's not marks on a tree, and I don't think it's a big white rock....in a word - Yes....I think he meant it was a word, it's on a door and doesn't face in any particular direction (depends on whether the door is open or closed, etc...) - I still love the solve - even if it's wrong....and if the line takes you to Reserve, NM and then on to another wwwh, that would be pretty interesting - and also pretty simple and straight-forward without anything other than the poem...no coordinates, anagrams, or anything else needed.