Thursday, March 27, 2008 - Clear Creek Campground east of Camp Verde AZ
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A sunny afternoon at Clear Creek, March 14, 2008
Spring is in the air
I had a great visit with friends and relatives in the Las Vegas area and now it's time to head back to New York. I like this little campground and decided to land here again on this first leg of my return to New Mexico to spend a few days with my new Lazy Daze friends before I start the long ride east.
Night camp
Site 9 - Clear Creek Campground east of Camp Verde AZ
- There is ood Verizon cell phone and Broadband service here.
- Locate Clear Creek Campground on my Night Camps Map
- Check the weather here
Sweet, Rich Hickory Milk
Hickory was another favorite. Rambling through the Southeast in the 1770s, the naturalist William Bartram observed Creek families storing a hundred bushels of hickory nuts at a time. "They pound them to pieces, and then cast them into boiling water, which, after passing through fine strainers, preserves the most oily part of the liquid" to make a thick milk, "as sweet as fresh cream, an ingredient in most of their cookery, especially hominy and corncakes." Years ago a friend and I were served hickory milk in rural Georgia by an eccentric backwoods artist named St. EOM who claimed Creek descent. Despite the unsanitary presentation, the milk was ambrosial - fragrantly nutty, delightfully heavy on the tongue, unlike anything I had encountered before.