June 3, 2010
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Friday Morning Explore
Friday morning we decided to go exploring.
Paul has hiked all over the Carrizo ranch and found so many beautiful places,
and has even taken the kids to several of them.
He wanted to show one of them to me.
Only on slight, eensy-weensy problem --
and don't get me wrong - I love almost everything about the ranch, including hiking across country --
but I'm not so big on sliding under barbed-wire fences!
It just isn't my style.
So we set off in the minivan, looking for a road we thought MIGHT take us back to the badlands.On the way,
we saw cows.
I like cows.
Especially when they are NOT on MY property!
We drove and drove after that, and saw more pretty...
and three cows under a tree...
These two were on the run by the time I had fished out my camera,
But this black one was wise enough to realize we were but a momentary irritation,
and she need not give up her shade on account of this crazy photographer.We drove down many roads,
bumpy and rumbly,
rarely used and mounded between the tire tracks,
skimming the bottom of the minivan,
and wished we were driving the
suburban.
We drove across a big, huge, sandy wash as wide as a 12 lane highway.
We were thankful we did not get stuck,
as there was no cell reception
in that wash.
We wished we were driving the
suburban.
We drove to the end of the road to a closed gate and read a sign that said
"No trespassing, hiking or hunting."
It was full of bullet holes.
All the signs on the ranch are full of bullet holes.
We drove back over the wash,
and the bumpy
rumbly
road.
We found another road
but then discovered
it was someone's
driveway.
We drove around the back side of their property
along a track that was between
two rickety fences.
We wanted to go through the fence and beyond.
We could not find a gate.
We got stuck winding through the center of someone else's property
on a strange
serpentine
trail.We found our way out.
We went back to the ranch,
having been foiled in our attempt to get to the badlands,
but having enjoyed the whole process of
exploring.~*~*~*~*~
