Wampum

The picture over the counter at Llantera Chihuahua¹ shows a softball team in uniform. Boys smile at the camera. They made 2nd place in that season. Llantaera Chihuahua is the proud sponsor of Los Indios del Barrio, a city league youth softball team.

We lost a tire at what seemed to be the first stop light, coming into Santa Fe an hour after dusk, after finding no room at the BLM camps along the Rio Grande just south of Taos.

Tire replacement is usually impossible on Sundays, and trailer tires are always wicked more than you'd think was reasonable.

An ST225/75 R15 "trailer use only" set us back $88, and a pair of trunk lift struts (installed) another $100. I was very happy with José's shop. I'd a replacement, mounted and balanced, in under ten minutes. The phone rang while we were shopping for Sam's no-gluten foods and in quick stop on the return leg towards camp the trunk lift struts were replaced. What started as an enforced three-day lay-over in town became a stay of choice.

¹El Camino de Chihuahua or El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro runs from Tenochtitlán (Mexico City) to Paquimé (Casas Grandes, Chihuahua) to Santa Fe. It is a road Lou Dobbs has never imagined or traveled. Lou lives in the Americas without Indians. A Judenfrei MittleEuropa of the mind, translated west, and made "native".