| Sunday June 29, 2000 6 AM Home Depot parking lot, Bernalillo,
NM. Loading up 2006 Honda CR-V, real-time 4WD, 5 speed manual.  Stopping for breakfast in Cuba, NM.  Just outside Cuba we turn to the east to drive through Regina, Gallina, Coyote, and Youngstown,, NM to reach Abiquiu lake. Several miles to the west of Regina we passed Bear Paw road which leads to a Fred Fair ranch. There was a FOR SALE sign at the sign post. We saw one of more gas/diesel guzzlers parked near modest homes and even mobile homes. Gas/diesel guzzlers in parking lot at Abiquiu lake.  Gas that weekend about $3.839. Fishing buddy ... and instructor ... weighing 3 pound small mouth bass.  Caught fish display prior to lunch and cleaning.  Bill caught kept one bass and walleye seen in the middle. The adverse public health and environmental effects of these toxic chemicals are both serious and long lasting. Mercury pollution from power plants, for example, is deposited on soil and in water, where it transforms chemically into a highly toxic form (methylmercury) that accumulates in the tissues of fish.74Parking lot seen as we returned from essential non-gas-wasting food gathering trip.  Nominally, the round trip to Abiquiu from Albuquerque in 270 miles Here is the cost and mileage  We were towing a boat and running the air on return trip. We travelled about 14 miles by boat our gps reported. We used about 4 gallons of gas om the 9.9 hp Evinrude for three fishing trips this summer. ;) |
| Sunday 6, 2008 essential non-gas-wasting field trip to look at
FOR SALE signs on rural homes. There are quite a few ... and increasing. Lots of driving required in New Mexico because of great distrances required to get to place for essential activities - fushing, bunting, shooting and educational field trips. Heading southeast of Belen, NM heading to Abo Canyon.   BNSF railroad is only single tracked through Abo canyon. Big rail bottleneck. MSM reported that it would cost BNSF $1,000 per foot to install a second track through the canyon. Train with three pullers and one pusher heading west into Abo canyon.  Returning to Albuquerque on I-25 just north of Los Lunas, NM.  Every time I saw a car towing a motorboat this holiday weekend, I wondered what was going through the head of the towee. Did they have a sense that darkness was falling on their careers in motor sports? Did they have an inkling that an oil-and-gas crisis is upon us and just not give a shit? Or were they just going through the motions, following some implacable rote programming induced by, say, forty-odd years of TV addiction and a diet based on corn-syrup byproducts? ... And
We've reduced our highway speed to about 63 mph on our essential non-gas-wasting trips for fuel saving reasons, of course. |
