So I found a campsite in Wyoming.
It had a sweeping view of the sky, lots of soothing crickets, stars, and the BobD sat quiescent in the dark allowing my rattled mind to re-orient to the present.
Thought I made a wrong turn in the night:

Drove back down towards the Colorado border along some railroad tracks on a gravel frontage road and found these creatures:


Found a nice little corn field to camp in the next night
with babbling irrigation "brook":

With a view like that in the morning light, how could you not just take off your front bumper and clean all the overspray/waxoyl from the inside of it and wax the impact box?:

. . . . and why would you then not 120-grit sand the whole outside down to the original primer/paint, then 800 grit color sand it with water from the babbling "brook", and paint it in a tree? I ask you :

Man, the cad plating on the bumper bolts was as-new:

Now the front bumper looks as new as the rest of the car . . . until next week when some 18-wheeler drives on the shoulder in front of me:

Wheels get the IAC itinerant paintbooth treatment next . . . and vwlover77 can then have the beauty rings, yay
Meanwhile, what is this life?
Colin