In August 2008 I was planning on linking up with a vertebrate paleontologist friend in New Mexico. But while doing some sit ups in Denver I pulled something in my lower back and that ended a great trip.
Weird coincidence: in the middle of Nowhere, Missouri, at a gas pump, I recognized someone.
"Hell, I know that back," I said to myself and just waited.
Yup, when the guy came back it was my paleo friend Bob Sullivan.
Our paths didn't cross in Santa Fe, but they did near Rolla, Missouri. I think we spent way too much laughing about what our aging bodies had done to us over the last two decades. In 1990 Bob and I spent time collecting vertebrate fossils in the badlands of New Mexico, close to Farmington.
Where did the years go?
The West in 1986
Alan somewhere in the American West
About Me
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- Few people know about the wonders to be found in the countryside around Farmington, New Mexico. Mesa Verde National Park is 75 miles north, while Chaco Culture National Historical Park is 75 miles south. To the southwest, 135 miles, is Canyon de Chelly; to the west, 131 miles, is Monument Valley. Within easy driving distance are four of the great parks of the American southwest. This is where I love to spend my summer vacations, and have since 1981.
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