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New Mexico!

June 13, 2007, 10:00 am; posted by Chloe
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It’s been six months! I haven’t been home in six months, and as you read this — if it’s still Wednesday before 18:35 MST — I am on my way there.

I can’t wait to see the sky. You haven’t seen the sky until you’ve been out West.

In New York I can see maybe ten miles to the horizon, tops. At Houghton I see only patches because the trees and buildings block it all out. But in New Mexico the sky isn’t a blanket or a strip. It’s what I can only call “the adventure.” It seems like the earth’s curve is visible on that vast horizon, and every degree on the 360 is calling out for exploration, for someone to touch those places where the sky touches land. There’s a chance, too, that no one has been to that place before; there is that much wilderness in New Mexico.

I’m going to have my own set of adventures by the end of this summer. I’ll be living with my grandma, and all I’ll have to do is step off the porch and walk fifteen yards to get to the national forest.

From here on out my Bweinh! posts will be mostly occupied with New Mexico, and if you don’t want to go there now, you will by September.


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2 Comments to “New Mexico!”

  1. Chase on June 14th, 2007 10:17 am

    still thinking about going out west when I graduate Chloe. Going to see that sky and laugh at people who think UFO’s stop by their house on Thursday nights for tea and a little science.

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