Judging by the way he has misquoted and ridiculed so many people, past and present, who have shared their thoughts and research with him and the Tumlinsons, both on these forums and in private conversation, Ryan doesn't mean well at all. And such behavior towards those who have been assisting him in so many ways is even more reprehensible IMO.jhowlett wrote:Wayn I think Ryan probably means well. But like all Family's the present day Tumlinson's want to believe that they certainly know everything there is to know about their treasure hunting relative, but the fact is as with all family's we probably do not know a lot about are relatives and their day to day activities and who they hung around with. Like some of us we do not tell everything about the LDM or our most recent trips to are own family's about the Super's, because they get bored because they do not have or want to have all the facts on what we are doing it sometimes hurts us so we just try not to talk about it, so we spare them and ourselves. From the post in Travis's own words it was both sad and painfully evident, that his hunt was apart from family and there probably were many day to day things he never told them. The present day Tumliinson's while trying to be helpful, and want to feel and be included may be sharing Ideas about Travis that are very important, others in fact maybe assumptions that they believe to be the case but in fact are not. I'm sure that soon the site will be discovered and then the work of trying to put the pieces together will begin. The thing is that even then we will not know 100 %. Then Sherlock Holmes can help to put the pieces together Can you imagine the back and forth on who did what, why when and how. the posts will be epic. Jeff
And yes, we can probably all relate to what you say about our own family's overall knowledge of our interests, which would likely be inadequate for any historian later tasked with writing about us and our successes and failures, friends and foes etc. Especially when trying to recall what took place so far from home base.
But at this point I have no belief that Travis himself found any treasure whatsoever, despite the grandiose claim the he was the greatest --------, although RG has said he knows where this "greatest treasure" is located, and has identified a number of possible caches by use of a metal detector. But so far as I know, and he hasn't said otherwise, no photos of any "treasure" have been found in either the family's records or Travis' own collection. Tons of other photographs, and even the original negatives for many. But despite TT's penchant for taking pictures, nothing in that category . That's why a google search for "antique Jesuit crucifix photo" will bring up the only photo of "Jesuit treasure" that Ryan has shared so far.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=antique+ ... jwSE9IzgBw
Regards:SH.
