Friday, April 16th

Put us down for another 8 miles today. We did 4 miles in the morning and 4 miles in the afternoon. Carol and Ruth, locally known as the 2nd string, are fast becoming the varsity players. Look out, John!

We walked to mile marker 62 today and tomorrow will walk through downtown Carrizozo tomorrow.  We expect the streets to be lined with people.

This afternoon, we walked through the "Valley of the Fires", the lava field that I wrote about earlier. About half way through, a van stopped and a women and two young men about high school age got out and crossed the highway to talk to us. She was a teacher and her two students and they were geo-caching and wanted to know if that's what we were doing. We said no and told her about our walk and all the trials and tribulations along the way. She said that she lived in Lincoln, which is east of Capitan, and we were more than welcome to park in her lot when we passed through. I need to keep a small notebook and pen with me so I can write all this down instead of relying on memory.

John was feeling better this morning, but I'm not sure he felt so good this afternoon.

We found a quarter and a fork today, which brings our grand total of money to $1.08. That includes 2 cents that Carol found in the laundry room. Stay tuned ........