Saturday 1/27
I like waking up looking out the open windows of the schooner. Sunrise and that nip in the air is refreshing when you are toasty warm with the covers pulled up and your stocking cap on. Low 40s this morning. Lil Buddy fired up but no furnace. Had coffee, did up the dishes, looked at the map and GPS.The bicycle is ready to go….like real close. I just need somewhere to ride that isn’t a sandy wash or a narrow road. Anyways, should be a short haul today. I put the chair away rolled up the carpet and rolled on out of there. Yesterday I had gone 234 miles in 3 days. Today maybe 70 miles.

Need to hit the market, top with fuel as it looks a little sketchy and mail some grand daughter post cards. Going to have to deal with propane next week also. One border check station on the way to Organ Pipe. Yesterday I went thru one and the overweight, fatigue wearing Border Patrol Agent looked at my plates as I was turtling forward and gave me the annoyed hand wave of “clear it buddy” and turned his back on me. Today, I got to ask them how dangerous it was? Their viewpoint? No big deal. Don’t pickup hitch… yada.

So the campground at Organ Pipe. Slightly sloping hill site, couple of hundred sites, most pull through. Really more for couples pulling 5th wheels. I’m gone tomorrow and I got a nice hike in to a abandoned mine site. The hike was nice, the mine site, not so much. I really like the vistas with the organ pipe cactus. Hmmm, 8-10 people coming and going. Of course, I’m carrying the green chair. If they past me when I’m sitting in the shade, they shake their heads yes. I like that.
I’m going to drift up towards the Chiricahua Mountains, more north. Cochise’s Stronghold. Spend a few days in Apache country. I need a new book for West Texas. Will need to work on that. Finished the book on hiking the Appalachian Trail. I want to golf a bit also. So tomorrow, Tombstone, Fort Huaraches

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