My new sister-in-law Sarah was adamant about Abiquiu. The first thing I did with my free time New Mexico was to journey there. The directions were conveyed to Etta by email. We raced the sun in a red pickup from Taos, New Mexico, past the Ghost Ranch, to a barely marked forest road by the sign into town. The road turned to dirt, and the sun crept lower. We took photos of the jewelry on cactus. There were snakes. We followed the roads out into the desert. There was a white horse, and several cows. Then a stone house with no roof. The road disappeared into wilderness. A jeep with no headlights careened downhill behind us, then turned into the creek and raced up the other side, the headlights lost into tree trunks. We forded the river in the Ford F-150, got lost, turned back, retraced our steps for an hour, with the gas tank on empty.
Glad you got out there into the above and beyond. Into the sunset sands. Into the grasses greener. 3rdarm, wishing you a sweet rest and sweet fall sunshine.