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Posted May 20, 2009 Genius! Pure Genius. Now everyone loves a good deal, and ‘free’ is hard to pass up. So the City of San Antonio Texas hired Cathleen McGuire's aunt to do aerial photography for them. From the photographs she took, she deduced the direction of future development, and, as San Antonio was a growing city, she figured that if she bought property where the development was planned, it would go up in value. And she was right. Cathleen's aunt became a millionaire from her real estate investments. That is genius. This spurred on my friend Cathleen even more - she had to become rich. She figured the way to do that was to become a lawyer, and off to law school in San Diego she drove one June back in ’77. She just started taking classes, and when they discovered she was not a student, they enrolled her. She later founded a fishery in the Pacific Northwest, was a slumlord (by her description), and when she died she was in the process of founding an airline. She was relentless, she was without fear, she was full of ideas, and energy, laughter and sarcasm. She was one remarkable human being, and I will always miss her. As Cathleen was driving to San Diego that summer to attend law school, and I was going to California to visit with a good friend, we shared the trip part of the way, and along the way we planned to canoe the canyons of the Rio Grande River, in Big Bend National Park. These canyons are 15 or more miles long, and 1500’ deep or more in some places, with sheer walls that rise straight up from the water. The sky above is a narrow ribbon of blue when you are in the canyons, Bouquias, Santa Elena, and one other. We were going to take several days and do three of the canyons by canoe. We told the park rangers of our plan and struck out for the put-in place at the head of the three canyons, many miles across the desert . . .
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