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Big Bend NP-6
4/3/2025 I’m gonna wrap this up prematurely, as there is little to make funny jokes about any longer, and if I can’t do that I become unmotivated real fast. Plus, it’s just plain boring. Given that we now had an extra day, we made our way to “see the water” — a common request of mine that has gotten us into a fair amount of trouble over the years. For example, when we were in New Orleans looking at a map and…
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Big Bend NP-5
4/2/2025 The wind continued to howl most of the night, dying down shortly before dawn. Speaking of which: dawn. When do you suppose that first light of morning takes place? For me, pretty much no matter where we are this time of year, it’s 6-ish. You know, if you open your eyes at 6, you can tell it’s morning — or darn-near it. It’s very different than, say, 4 am. Here, 6 am is like 4 am. JET BLACK. It didn’t start…
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Big Bend NP-4
4/1/2025 Breaking Bad. Dave said that’s what the area looked like and he was EXACTLY RIGHT. Was Breaking Bad filmed in New Mexico? I feel like it had to be. I don’t have internet right now, so I can’t check but this place screams of a camper-making-meth scene. Dave wasn’t even going to make coffee, but I made 5 five pre-measured tea bags of earl grey and dammit I was going to use them all, so I rolled my butt out of…
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Big Bend NP-3
Well… I’m sad to report we did NOT stay in Roswell with the ET’s. We were making too good of time and blasted right on through. Mostly I’m sad because that’s also where we left civilization. We should have stopped there for dinner but we weren’t hungry. Instead, we continued on to Artesia, NM and ate at what appeared to be the only open restaurant in town: La Fonda. We were in and out in a matter of 30 minutes, gobbling chips…