Friday, January 2, 2009 - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM
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Leaving the Wash, Devil's Hall trail, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, January 1, 2009
Arrangements were made and by days end LD had been dragged the 60 miles from the Guadalupe Mountains National Park visitors center parking lot to the Charlie's Transmission parking lot in Carlsbad where she and I sit awaiting Charlie's ministrations on Monday.
Night camp
Parking lot - Charlie's Transmission, Carlsbad NM
Stay What You Always Were
My sisters have been listening to me all my life and vice versa, and there's a limit to how interesting we find each other. Which is one of the reasons, surely -- this is exactly the kind of thought that didn't come up in conversation -- that it is at least as stifling as it is comforting to be with family. It doesn't allow its members to experiment with themselves. The penalty for being loyally accepted for the whole of your life is that you must stay what you always were.
Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, Nuala O'Faolain