Friday, May 30th

We started at marker 134 today, just a few miles outside of Socorro. We walked into Socorro and had to say good-bye to Highway 60, our old friend. We have been on Highway 60 for weeks, since Vicksburg, Arizona. We passed by the RV park we are staying and both John and I took a bathroom break. As I was joining John, Audrey was waiting for us. Audrey is a reporter for the El Defensor Chieftan, one of two local papers in Socorro. Audrey took our photo and as she already had much information about our walk, bid us a safe trip. We walked on about 4 miles and came to the small community of Luis Lopez. This is a farming community on the Rio Grande, which runs south through Socorro and this community. We had a few encounters with dogs here, but they seemed to be friendly, seemed being the key word. "Good fences make good dogs". On we walked until we came to another small town, San Antonio. San Antonio is a farming community also. Irrigation ditches from the Rio Grande provide the water for farming. San Antonio, Texas has it's River Walk and San Antonio, New Mexico has it's Irrigation Ditch Walk. It is also the birthplace of Conrad Hilton, the founder of the Hilton Hotel chain. Paris!, are you getting this!. About a mile before we finished, a lady named Pat, pulled over and chatted with us. She had seen us walking with Jolie Blonde in Magdalena. She said that she and her husband owned a spa resort in southern New Mexico. John gave her a brochure and told her what we were doing. We walked on to the junction of Highways 1 and 380 where Carol was waiting. Monday we turn east and into the desert. I found a fork in the road today and took it. Stay tuned....

PS: I would love to hear from you. If might be easier to email Carol and I, instead of making a comment on the blog. Our email address is dickcarol.mattson@gmail.com