Welcome to my first Blog!

I love to write adventure treasure novels. We all live busy complicated lives that can become mundane and boring. What could be better than stumbling across circumstances that eventually lead  you to the realization that you are on the path to a potential lost or undiscovered treasure- a treasure that no one else knows exists? My first adventure novel, “The Keys of Noah”, was inspired by such an incident experienced by my great uncle, Eddie Frost, a self-made prospector in southeast British Columbia. He told the story of stumbling across a very old file that told skimpy details about one of the first gold claims in that part of the country. The lost gold claim preoccupied his thoughts, and he knew he had to search for it. Each spring, as soon as the snows left the high country, Eddie would drive up as close as he could to the area mentioned in the file and from there, he would walk the mountainsides adjacent to the river below that had showed good placier gold in their river bed sediments. What Eddie was searching for was the placier deposits’ source, the ‘mother load’. With each passing year, instead of discouragement, Eddie became more and more determined to find it. He started referring to the elusive rich gold deposit as “Prospector’s Dream”. After 18 years of searching the steep mountainsides, one day Eddie walked into a small level clearing that had piles of rock on it. Eddie walked over to the edge of the clearing to a rock ledge and face. There he could see the tell-tale markings of where the miners had hammered and blasted the rich gold laden ore from the side of the mountain and then piled it in the clearing. Eddie had found it! He smiled, rested, and then located his position on his map. He placed as much of the mined ore into his back pack and hiked happily back to his truck. The assay came back on the retrieved ore samples at just under 3 ounces of gold per ton of mined ore, making it extremely rich.

Eddie had not only found an amazing lost treasure, but he had also discovered much about himself while persevering against yearly discouragement and physical challenges climbing the steep mountainsides. It was difficult to keep at it, but it had made him a better person. I think we can all learn from this tale that we should never give up, especially on our dreams. If we can do that, that is a real treasure in itself.

Thanks for reading my first Blog.

Robert