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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

Sunset, South Monticello Area, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM, April 19, 2009
Sunset, South Monticello Area, Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM, April 19, 2009

Night camp

Site 32, South Monticello Point - Elephant Butte Lake State Park, Elephant Butte NM

What I've Learned

Such delicate goods as justice, love, honor and courtesy, and indeed all the things we care for, are valid everywhere but they are variously molded and often differently handled and sometimes nearly unrecognizable if you meet them in a foreign land, and the art of learning fundamental common values is perhaps the greatest gain of travel to those who wish to live at ease with their fellows.

The Middle of Everywhere, Freya Stark quoted by Mary Pipher, pg 339

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