durango was great. both tex and i presented slides of our work to the colorado arts ranch crowd and were passed a napkin telling us that we were at THE table of talent. well worth it, even if it did take a stop in the saloon before getting up to present. over all i loved durango, its a bike friendly town with a nice cold river that ran right next to where we installed the piece. beautiful. i made use of the trail at least once a day - usually many, many times.
durango had a great balance of feeling big enough that it wasn’t boring and not so big that most of the places we talked to cared about us putting our icee-packs in their freezers. we didn’t have a place to stay lined up, but it ended up being more fun like that - i got to know the soundtrack of the common sense cafe very well. we had several adventures in durango, with some very cool people…and amazing hot wings….kristen thanks for your tour guide services and special thanks to amelia and keli for the air mattress - you girls are beyond wonderful.
now we have left colorado…. but not the mountains…they keep going! we spent a couple days in new mexico - it was fun. we ran into a couple of new yorkers - mel and dan - at the royal gorge. a ride into town, a few margaritas and a dip in the pool later and we had a hotel room for the night with our new friends.
we ended up all heading to oja caliente the next day; mineral pools - iron, soda, arsenic and a mud bathe. i got in touch with my inner ceramicist, and it felt amazing….
with baby soft skin, we all continued though santa fe, and ended in albuquerque where our new friends flew back to new york and we began looking for desert. the weather was there, cold nights with hot days, but the land scape was too green. we collected a few larger pipes - for a piece that might not happen, the zia, its on the new mexico flag - which doesn’t really work anymore since we ended up speeding though new mexico, due to it not looking quite as desert-y as one might think, and we now we are in arizona, flagstaff to be exact, which is more desert-y, finally…
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