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Saturday, March 29, 2008 - Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ

Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 29, 2008
Camped along Mule Creek Road, Guthrie AZ, March 29, 2008

I'm camped for the night along Mule Creek Road (AZ 78) in the Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, about 11 miles east of Guthrie AZ and a mile west of the Arizona / New Mexico border.

Primitive camping along Mule Creek Road

After having spent the night in the first rest area west of the New Mexico border when I came through here a couple of weeks ago I discovered the next morning on my journey down off the plateau there are several really nice primitive campgrounds a few miles farther west that I would have preferred to stay at. I'm at one of them now.

Night camp

Primitive campground along Mule Creek Road East of Guthrie AZ

Stay What You Always Were

My sisters have been listening to me all my life and vice versa, and there's a limit to how interesting we find each other. Which is one of the reasons, surely -- this is exactly the kind of thought that didn't come up in conversation -- that it is at least as stifling as it is comforting to be with family. It doesn't allow its members to experiment with themselves. The penalty for being loyally accepted for the whole of your life is that you must stay what you always were.

Almost There: The Onward Journey of a Dublin Woman, Nuala O'Faolain

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