Get it? Anyway, after being too cheap to pay the crater entrance fee (wtf?) I checked out these ruins for a break. The slight rise on the horizon next to the ruined house is the lip of the crater.
Mountain lions, snakes and scorpions, Oh my! (Apache country and the Salt) May 30th 2009 "Yer lucky them lions didn't gecha!" he grinned.
The natural reaction to a comment like this coming from a guy with three visible teeth and a heavy yokle accent is incredulity. Unless, as was the case, the commentator is a local Apache who grew up just up river from where I was camped the night before. "I wouldn't'a slep' out dere!" he giggled as a follow-up.
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North America » United States » Arizona » White Mountain Apache Reservation Britain's American colonies broke with the mother country in 1776 and were recognized as the new nation of the United States of America following the Treaty of Paris in 1783. During the 19th and 20th centuries, 37 new states were added to the origina... ... read more
In 2009 I set out on an 8-month solo trip to South America from Vancouver - on a motorbike. Somewhere around California I learned to ride the damn thing and once I got to Guanajuato, Mexico I found out her name. Rocinanta and I had an eventful 40,000 km together on the way to Ushuaia, Argentina. Come along for the ride? ... full info