So You Rented Out a Meth House

My c ollege roommate Kara and her husband Brian are the kind of people you can go a year without seeing and then show up on their front porch and pick up like no time passed at all. They own 170 acres of pristine land between the Arkansas River and Clear Creek Reservoir near Buena Vista, Colorado, a small mountain town about two hours from Denver. Now in their late 30s, Kara and Brian, who asked to be identified pseudonymously, bought the land from an 84-year-old man who taught them how to grow, harvest and bale hay, and operate the hydroelectric system he built decades earlier. At any given time, Brian has a half-dozen projects going: building an A-frame at the top of a vista, tending to their bees, leveling the Jeep trails to make the property more accessible. The work is never done; that’s the point. Read Full Article »