I was the only person on Lipan point until a little red VW Rabbit rumbled up. It looked like a father son duo; the younger man in the passenger seat was fast asleep and never got out of the car. It was definitely an early start; I began driving in the dark. There’s something magical about dawn and the energy of the earth waking up. I like to sleep though, so I don’t see sunrise all that much. But every time I do see it, it feels like a special reward. I stopped a little further down the road at the watchtower and was startled by three deer eating breakfast near the parking lot. They were very cooperative and let me take their picture.
Tumbleweeds tumbled across the road through Arizona. I went to Four Corners, gave them three dollars to freeze in the wind, pee in a composting toilet that blew air up at my behind, and have an Asian guy take my picture. But I was there, a limb in each state. From the tumbleweeds I drove through snow capped mountains in Colorado. I ate lunch at the Himalyan Kitchen, a delicious Indian buffet in Durango. As I walked downtown I passed outdoor gear stores, the Steaming Bean coffee shop, an aromatherapy herbal shop, a brewery, and a Life is Good store.
Driving through the mountains in New Mexico the full moon was rising on my left as the sun was setting on my right, I didn’t know which way to look! Then as it grew dark I was on a long and winding road through a National Forrest with less than a quarter tank of gas and a dead cell phone. I was a little nervous, I made it though! At the Abominable Snowmansion just north of Taos I was greeted with warm cookies and a hostel host from Massachusetts. I sat around the propane fireplace with the hostel hosts and a couple other guests, five strangers gathered by a fire. I had the entire twelve person dorm room to myself and got a few hours of good rest on a saggy, springy twin bed.
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| Watchtower |
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| Moonrise on the left |
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| Sunset on the right |
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