On The Road, Day Seven
Trip Start
Sep 19, 2009
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Trip End
Sep 25, 2009
Madrid, New Mexico
Friday, September 25, 2009
2) I had forgotten that I do indeed like traveling alone. The freedom and flexibility that I had on this trip were their own rewards, and having what I previously called my "sacred solitude" was at the center of it all. That's not to say that I'm forever opposed to traveling with companions; just that it would be a very different kind of trip for me, and one that I'd probably like to keep shorter than a solo outing might be.
Headed back to Hwy 60, and east toward Socorro, NM, through the little outposts of Omega, Pie Town, Datil and Magdalena, and past the Very Large Array Radio Telescope installation east of Datil. (This is where part of the movie Contact was filmed in about 1985, based on Carl Sagan's novel, and staring Jodie Foster). Breakfast in Socorro - no, not you know where - talked with Nancy after a couple days of no contact, and off on the final legs toward home.
Up I 25 north for about 25 miles (this was the final, and in some way the most pleasant of the three I-road segments) to the continuation of 60 east to Mountainaire, NM. Then north on 55 and 337 through some beautiful back country of rural NM, through the Tijeras Canyon, and back to Hwy 14, the Turquoise Trail, and on to Camino Cerro Chato, three miles south of Madrid. Down Camino Cerro Chato to my turn off at Grateful Way, and to my humble, and comfortable hand built straw bale home on the hill side.
This was a great journey for me, in many ways, not the least of which was the pure pleasure of riding my SilverWing, absolutely trouble free and performing stupendously, some 1650 miles round trip, through some of the most inspiring and spectacular landscape in the world. My final words on the subject: Thank You!
