Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ
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Camped along Mule Creek Road, east of Guthrie AZ, March 12, 2008
Primitive camping along Mule Creek Road
After having spent the night in the first rest area west of the New Mexico border I discovered the next morning on my journey down off the plateau there are several really nice primitive campgrounds a few miles farther west that I would have preferred to stay at.
Westbound views
This is a beautiful road to travel heading westbound. The views as you come down off the high plateau are gorgeous. I regret now I didn't stop for some pictures.
Night camp
Rest area along Mule Creek Road East of Guthrie AZ
- No Verizon cell phone and Broadband service are available here.
- Locate Mule Creek Road on my Night Camps map
- Check the weather here
Over Fifty
Some of this has been painful for me, but it's all been wildly instructive. And it convinced me that nearly every person over fifty should try to find a time to sit down and engage in the same exercise, even if you never intend to publish anything. You need to think about what really meant something to you. Who did you really love. Who really made you what you are. What the seminal events did. And also it's an incredible discipline. Because I found it shocking to me what I remember and what I don't. It's shocking to me what I can remember factually and how hard it is for me to be absolutely sure about how I felt at the time. You know, how did I feel when I was 16? I don't really know.
Bill Clinton, on writing his memoir, in an interview with James Fallows, the Atlantic Monthly