Random Road Thoughts From A 22 Hour New Mexican Fun Run

 April 14, 2025

   As a recap, I have to say seeing all the roadside wreckage on our trip to Roswell and back was a bummer, but the daydreaming made up for it.

Uno & Roadside Wreckage

at Christopher Creek

   On Sunday, after we lounged around Christopher Creek Cabin #9, we took off for Payson at about 8:30.

My traveling compadres sitting outside at Duza's

   After a rousing, exotic breakfast at Duza's (this is absolutely one of the best cafes in the Southwest) we cruised on home, landing at the Triple B Ranch just after eleven in the morning. It was a long run for a good cause, and I also had time to think during those long stretches of lonesome highway out beyond Quemado. It's like fishing to me, just enough to do so that your mind can wander and be creative.

BBB Random Road Thoughts

   I would love to do a desert noir story about a lonesome lawman who has to patrol the barren corridors of western New Mexico.

Pie Town PD

   He doesn't even like pie, so of course, he got the assignment to police the high desert around Pie Town, New Mexico. With the cartels moving in, it is going to get muy stormy to say the least.

The Dirt Bag Brothers

   Benny (seated at left) and his brothers—Booger and Barney—thought they could get away with anything. They were about half right.

The Banegas Brothers Drunk As Skunks

Boon Dog Bixler

   He loved the Mescaleros. Too bad, they didn't love him back.

The Late Boon Dog Bixler "Land Surveyor"

(killed by Mescalero Apaches near Nogal)

Nickle-Plated Love

   If she had a nickle for every dadburn calf roper who said he loved her, she'd be able to buy two cases of Baby Ruths.

Sweet Alita "Roper's Delight"

Range Detective

   Angie Banegas (yes, that's her ne'er do well cousins above) patrols the Big Sandy and she don't put up with Dirt Bags (see, also above)

Angie Banegas Range Detective

Jenny Cordova is one shrewd Mamacita

   Of course, seeing all those small New Mexican towns brings back memories of my own upbringing in a certain western Arizona cowtown.

Dally Yardbird Cowboy Pool Hustler

   Not to mention the local In-dins who made a strong impression on me.

Bisti Badman

   Their first mistake was sending him to boarding school. Their second mistake was letting him graduate. Try and catch him now law dogs!

"It's always easier to condemn the past than confront the present."

—Old Vaquero Saying