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- Maybe this is being discussed, but Temple Grandin’s at Pauline Whitaker Pavillion at U of A tomorrow night (Tues.). thought you might be interested, SH. Wish I could make it.

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Early morning we strike out for the northern New Mexico/Southern Colorado territory. (In the background I can hear Brynn pureeing some sorta fancy Mexican sauce for our first breakfast in Durango).

I haven’t really prepared. For some reason I’m anxious rather than glad. I just dumped a bunch of pairs of shorts and some books into a suitcase. I’m always glad when we arrive.

We’ll try to make it to Santa Fe by nightfall, and we’ll allot a lot of our budget to a decent hotel in the downtown.

Did you know, it’s true what they say about the quality of the light there. (Though most who say that probably don’t know what they’re talking about). If you leave early from Arkansas, you’ll end your eternal damnation of Highway 40 with a turn North on any one of three roads to Santa Fe, and get to watch the sunset out the driver’s side window. The landscape and the light and the weather patterns have changed.

There is a spectacular quality to the light there, but I think that’s true for lots of places. I’ve heard New Yorkers talk about the special quality of the light there, the myriad ways the light reflects from the skyscrapers, and onto the ground, and through the windows of other buildings, reflecting and refracting on and on and on. I’ve been to New York in summertime, and I’ve seen that, and been dazzled by it. It’s true. I can only imagine it in the wintertime.

Oh yeah. I meant to ask if anyone knew of any littleknown places for hiking, or decent restaurants, around the Durango/Silverton area. I’ve been up there a few times, but you know I never befriended a local. We’re taking it easy, driving all that way just to read some books and eat food and do the nothing that always ends up being more something than anything.

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