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| Three Rivers camp |
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| Morning at camp before the rain |
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| Atmospherics at Three Rivers this am
S up early and lucky too as she packed a lot and I cooked omelette and we struck camp before pouring rain, thunder and that sharp hot lightning as mentioned. Back to Carrizozo and off west on 60 and 380 to Socorro library which is right up there with all those public libraries of yore, long may they run. S made a birthday plan for herself and I which is an airbnb in Tucson on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and which we are now in the process of executing.
Now arrived at Datil Wells camp after a satisfying visit to Sorroco, a refuelling at Magdalena, and a short tour of The Very Large Array (think Jodie Foster in the movie Contact)
Gasoline in Magdalena ( I mention this only because “Magdalena” is so much in the style of village/town naming around here)
Arrived last afternoon/evening at Datil Wells camp after biking in search of a online reccommended wood fired pizza place in Socorro for lunch but were led astray through all manner of structures, train crossings into the fields before the Gila (I think). Camp was so quiet, cool and restful that we forgot to pay until the hostess arrived on the inevitable military grade golf cart and very professionally helped me with the paperwork which as always demands way too many numbers which I assume must not be fudged. High desert trail beckoned first S to walk and, shortly thereafter, me to bike. Biking had its joys and sorrows and as night fell and my cute little map located at the trailhead in a sweet podium/standing desk proved to be unreliable as to the short cut I wanted there was an edge to the ride that started when I took a fork and was returned to my own track in a part of the way I had already gone.
Anyway I believe in fitness and if death is a part of that…
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the grand library of Socorro
End of the bike ride in search of pizza. I was hoping that the building in the trees in the background was the pizza joint - it was not. But the misdirection let us visit the exotic pet shop on the way to the real pizza place which was interesting - the pet shop.
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