{"id":144,"date":"2004-11-30T23:43:57","date_gmt":"2004-11-30T23:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=144"},"modified":"2024-01-11T22:56:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T22:56:40","slug":"november_30_2004_city_of_rocks_n_m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"November 30, 2004 City of Rocks N.M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2004<br \/>\nCity of Rocks, New Mexico<\/p>\n<p>Starting to feel a bit more like a wanderer again.  The last month or so we have been driving to \u201cget to places\u201d as apposed to just heading down the road.  Finally we have a space head of us where we can just follow the road again and see what happens.  When the trip gets distilled to its essence that\u2019s what it\u2019s about.  Somehow my other life seems to creep back in and all of a sudden we have to be somewhere or do something outside of the trip.<br \/>\nBut for now we\u2019re back on the road and heading west.<br \/>\nAs we left Deming we ran into Bob Sundown camped just off the road at the intersection of Highway 180 and Highway 26.   This has been his winter camp for the past two months.  Bob is a great man whose life consists of 2 mules, 1 burro, a dog named Skeeter, a hand made \u201ccovered wagon\u201d, complete with wood burning stove, pulled by the mules and lots of imagination.  He has spent may years traveling the country, mostly from Wyoming down to Southern New Mexico and back up to Wyoming in this wagon, pulled by the mules.  At times he teaches survival techniques in Quemado, New Mexico.<br \/>\nOver the years, as fall approaches, I have seen him heading south, down Highway 14 just past my old home in Santa Fe, but never had the time to stop and meet him.  Heather says he is a \u201cHuman Being\u201d.  The important word here is Being, as apposed to a \u201cHuman Doing\u201d I suppose.  Bob\u2019s address is General Delivery USA, if you want to write him.   I\u2019m glad I finally found the time&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/bob-sundown-and-skeeter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nBob Sundow and Skeeter<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hh-dmk-and-bob-sundown-skeeter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"376\" \/><br \/>\nHeather, Bob, DMK and Skeeter<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/hh-hcd-city-of-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nHeather and Henry taken in the night air City of Rocks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/windmill-city-of-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nWindmill, City of Rocks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/city-of-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Rocks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/city-of-rocks-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"270\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Rocks 2<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/city-of-rocks-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"432\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Rocks 3<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/city-of-rocks-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nCity of Rocks 4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/yucca-city-of-rocks.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nYucca, City of Rocks<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/city-of-rocks-airstream.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"324\" \/><br \/>\nAirstream City of Rocks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 30, 2004 City of Rocks, New Mexico Starting to feel a bit more like a wanderer again. The last month or so we have been driving to \u201cget to places\u201d as apposed to just heading down the road. Finally we have a space head of us where we can just follow the road again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2999,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/2999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmichaelkennedy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}