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Monday, December 21, 2009 - Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu NM

Biking the Bosque, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, December 20, 2009
Biking the Bosque, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge, December 20, 2009

Today I headed up to the Ghost Ranch Conference Center in Abiquiu NM to spend a few days with Kate & Terry.

Night camp

Ghost Ranch Campground, Abiquiu NM

What I've Learned

Such delicate goods as justice, love, honor and courtesy, and indeed all the things we care for, are valid everywhere but they are variously molded and often differently handled and sometimes nearly unrecognizable if you meet them in a foreign land, and the art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease with their fellows.

The Middle of Everywhere, Freya Stark quoted by Mary Pipher, pg 339

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