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Running to the Mountain

Tuesday 2/18

I fell asleep last night in front of the fireplace, reading Jon Katz

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Ashes to ashes . . .

Monday 2/17

One of the reasons I came out to New Mexico was to bring home my old buddy Bubba. Lara and I got Bubba, aka PigPen, in Algodones New Mexico, and some of my fondest times spent with him were desert hikes in the Jemez Mountains and the Sandia Foothills. When he died last January, I vowed to bring his ashes back to New Mexico.

After hiking through Bandelier for most of the day, I drove back into Jemez Springs and toward Jemez pueblo. Before you get to the pueblo, there are a series of small parks that give access to the Jemez River. When Lara and I used to bring the dogs up here, this was one of the places we

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The ruts of time . . .

Monday 2/17

Part of my fascination with ruins, I think, is walking through them, leaving footprints in places that people inhabited centuries ago. I