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Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ

Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 30, 2008
Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 30, 2008

Today I thought I might spend the night at the Walmart Supercenter in Safford AZ but, alas, I'm not welcome to overnight there. So I headed up to the AZ border near Mule Creek NM. It's colder up here but the ride up through the Apache National Forest is spectacular and worth a bit of suffering.

Night camp

Mule Creek Road East of Guthrie AZ

Our Past is Written Deep

We do not destroy this past of ours; it is indestructible. We carry it with us; its record is written deep in our lives. We only refuse to acknowledge it as our true past and try to make it an alien thing - something that did not happen to our real selves.... But this unremembered past endures.... Our buried past is mighty; the ghosts of our father and of the selves that we have been haunt our days and nights though we refuse to acknowledge their presence.

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