Abandoned Gas - The Whistle Pig - South Fork, CO (St. Elmo, 4 Corners and more!)
September 2016, Laura and I were going to celebrate our first year of Civil Unionifying ( don’t say the M word! ), and were looking for somewhere to go for a few days. Nothing extravagant, just a get away from Denver and see something new. My choice destination was the abandoned Whistle Pig convenience store, in South Fork, Colorado! Because that is the CUTEST little logo! She agreed that I could go hang out and take pictures in South Fork, but it had to be more than that. For some reason, she didn’t think an abandoned gas station was the best vacation for our first Civils Unioned anniversary. Okay, it didn’t happen that way... In reality, when the idea of where to go was first mentioned, I already had a proposal ready. A few months earlier, I had worked on the Summer/Fall 2016 Pagosa Magazine, at my stupid day (night) job. We printed a lot of regional Colorado travel magazines, during my years there. I usually didn’t pay a whole lot of attention to them, but something about Pagosa Spr