People Who Live on Dirt Roads Happier

Rio Sucio, Colombia  Limpia Days April 3, 2016

Persons who reside on dirt roads are generally well adjusted and endowed with a keen ability to deal with life when compared with their fellows who dwell on asphalt.

According to an extensive study the data spreads evenly when applied to groups as seemingly distinct as Western Coloradoans and persons living in what is rudely and routinely referred to as the Third World.

The initial research, conducted by a Psychology 101 class at Western State University, has been entered as evidence that what looks like progress is not always beneficial to man. Follow-up tests could not conclusively determine if the proverbial state of bliss, often present in the lives of dirt road folk, is due to dust particles or a low-stress level.

Since February students have interviewed over 1000 residents from Gunnison to Norwood. At present they are bivouacked in front of the Redvale Post Office, acknowledged gateway to the world’s longest stretch of unpaved highway which rings the planet just north of the 38th Parallel, intersects the Silk Road, scales the Himalayas and winds it way back into the Wright Fellowship Church parking lot just west of the now defunct Bob’s Paving and Small Engine Repair.

– Mario Swervo