”We pass this way but once,” we have heard it said.
But my wife has learned that, unless I’ve taken the time to carefully study a map, that isn’t necessarily true. So I completely understand the fix a Colorado hunting guide got himself into. His party became hopelessly lost in the mountains and they blamed him for leading them astray. “You told us you were the best guide in Colorado!” one of the hunters asserted. ”I am,” he said with without hesitation, “but I think we’re in Wyoming now.”