Device not found.
Device not found.
A decades long search. After leaving the latest dig site where we hoped to find the device. I glanced over to my passenger seat. To my surprise, there it was, for nearly 100 years there it always was.
My grandfather wasted a lifetime of savings exploring the far expanse of this continent in search of this iPad. He died not knowing what became of his beloved, a whisper of defeat on his final breath "Find my device... find my... urgh.. never found! Oh God it's just darkness... I'll never kno.. no noooo..." he said as his face twisted into fear and heart finally gave out. I was only a small boy then, now the years and those words weighed heavily on me.
Stripped of joy, only sadness flooded into me. With disbelief I reached over as I wept, utterly broken.
That right there is why I like my travel shit to have color. So many couches and seats are black or a dark enough color (especially in low light) that so much time is wasted looking right at it.
If only my grandfather wasn't so foolish to buy a leather case the same color as his leather seats. He may have known joy one last time and not died a broken man.
That's why I decided to have the entire vehicle reupholstered.
Considering how old this picture is, I totally believe that this was a decades-long search. I first saw this pic as a young man, and I'm middle-aged now.
I hope someday to share this photo with my grandchildren so they can maintain the legacy.