summer travel

[seide]

So, I made flight reservations for a trip to Albuquerque in June- heading out with friends for a camping retreat in the mountains. I'm psyched- haven't really been to the desert southwest in a while (and driving through on evac didn't really count, since we were too stressed and loaded up with animals to enjoy it

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[radioactiveart]

I haven't done a lot of hiking in years, but I still have the Vasque Clarions I've used on every trip to New Mexico since 1990. The perfect desert hikers, I think.

[unemployia]

I wore moccassins! ("as part of the high-school freak outfit- to distinguish all of us pot-smoking, Led-Zeppelin-listening types from the jocks and preps") and indian batik shirts and blue jeans. Which sucked in the winter, when they would get wet, and we were out smoking and drinking next to a trashcan bonfire by the elementary school in the late night. It was our own little freak group where we started to pick up an old retro hippy style for a while, in the suburbs of DC where the 70s didn't end until about 1981 :)