June 18, 2012
Got home yesterday afternoon after 17 days on the road. Saw some new country, met some interesting people, learned some history I didn't know and came home with some great memories. For me it doesn't get much better than that.
I have to say, of all the places I visited there is one region, actually a county, that is certainly the most cantankerous of all the places I visited. Here's a couple clues:
Home, Home On The Strange
Where the deer and the antelope are prey.
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Where seldom is heard a discouraging word,
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And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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Oh, and I know this isn't part of the song, but their storms are full of ash.
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"One of the reasons I live in this county is because there are no synagogues or mosques."
—A resident of Catron County, New Mexico who shall remain nameless