an important & unusual detail of the bird divination i neglected to
report yesterday
& then i will consider my breakout try officially suspended class e
is that the object in the beak of the roadrunner was such a bright
red that i misidentified our esteemed beepy one at first as some kind
of a prairie chicken or something
anything but a roadrunner
til his identity became jarringly unmistakable
& the indelible impression he gave me of smoking a huge well lit
bazuco kept me awake laughing & drinking half the night
like whattt did i see
so finally in the fantastically brilliant morning light they have here
i see & take the portentous red color to mean not only a no go for
running that road with the motion sensor
or any other road
but more importantly a loud yes to keeping the home fires burning
bright right here where i find myself at the crosshairs of reality
beeps
--- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "m06079" <barbaria_longa@h...>
wrote:
> ok i am back at the university again
> following a second round trip journey to radium springs today
> a bit wiser but none the worse for wear
> & after finally suceeding in finding the right road at least
> yesss
> or rather the right jeep track
>
> & having tested it on foot for the first mile or so
> not only so i could report the breakout really was afoot
> but especially to preview the quality of the road & inspect the
> notorious sand trap at the first dogleg right
> which my informant had warned me about
> i concluded i should first consult with & enlist the aid of my
friend
> jeff back at the hot springs
> which were coincidentally in walking distance anyway
>
> he said
> sure i would have told you to go that way but i know they have the
> motion sensors on the road there
> & they can watch you from the checkpoint too
>
> whooops
> but lucky i caught him
>
> & so back to square 1
> which basically means continuing to winter happily ever after here
on
> the new mexican riviera
>
> &or shipping my stash or some part of it on to rose
> who has volunteered to receive it in california next week
> but only if i send it by united parcel service
> which for some reason she finds an acceptable risk for a half share
> & where i could catch up with the rest of it
> with as little as an overnight run from here on empty
>
> but all that sounds like a lot of muss & fuss when i can just
> continue to enjoy being here doing nothing til the bag runs out
>
>
> the thought of making a dash for bzgtmx & gthnsv in the meantime
has
> occurred to me
> i admit it
> or chasing the wild mexican quadripoint
>
> probably no sniffer dogs between here & there
> so long as i dont dally around mxus per se
>
> but even so
> there is lots of other lunacy
> & i dont think centroamerica is really worth risking all again
>
> anyway i already did that lots of times
>
> so i think i will just continue to chill here for now
>
> & please join me in overlooking all this useless enjoyment
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
wrote:
> > ok i got a xerox of the delorme new mexico road atlas page
> > since printing off the internet is practically impossible at both
> > libraries
> > & i think i even spotted & zoomed the checkpoint in an aerial
photo
> > at terraserver
> > which places it a good half mile above the projected smuggling
route
> >
> > so now i am weighing whether to even bother with a test run
> > or to just go for it
> >
> > & i did see a roadrunner running across my road early this morning
> > come to think of it
> > even tho i didnt actually run or even find the road just then
> > & yikes he was indeed carrying something
> > in his mouth
> >
> > couldnt tell if it was a pito tho
> > hahaha
> >
> > but so anyway maybe i am getting the picture already muchachos
> >
> > beebeep
> >
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>
> wrote:
> > > began the smuggling route probe as predicted at daybreak
> > > thinking to steal up toward the border patrol post in the glare
> of
> > > the sunrise
> > > & surprised myself to find myself proceeding as usual without a
> map
> > > & only by my preferred intuitive dead reckoning autopilot
> technique
> > > even tho my ass & my stash were squarely on the line this time
> > >
> > > & decided to award myself a medal for valor or casualness
> > > i am not sure which
> > >
> > > but
> > > i think fortunately
> > > i simply couldnt find the outlet north from the maze of dusty
> > streets
> > > that is radium springs
> > > hahaha
> > > positively stymied for hours
> > > tho i had seen & studied it all on the same maps i commended to
> you
> > > last night
> > > hahahaha
> > >
> > > & didnt want to disturb my smuggler pals at the hot springs
> during
> > > their morning quiet hour tho i practically drove right past
their
> > > eminently pickable brains too
> > >
> > > & so i have repaired back to the libraries in las cruces to
> cobble
> > > together the best available maps
> > > hahaha
> > > so as to have them actually in hand for a more diligent retry
> > > perhaps tomorrow
> > >
> > > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, barbaria_longa@h... wrote:
> > > > finally
> > > > & probably illegally
> > > > joined the las cruces public library today so i can get
online
> on
> > > > days when the state university library is closed
> > > > without pawning my drivers license & waiting on 2 lines
> > > > as i previously had to do while foisting my technically
expired
> > > > quince dias visitors permit off as still valid
> > > >
> > > > but more importantly
> > > > a chance encounter with an extremely knowledgeable clerk in
the
> > > road
> > > > atlas department of an office max store has convinced me that
> > there
> > > > is indeed an escape hatch from my border jail clave
> > > > via a dusty & gated but public back road
> > > > traveling nnw from radium springs
> > > > that runs thru the gap between the border post on the river
> > valley
> > > > road & the border post on the interstate
> > > > & you can see it all at both topozone & terraserver
> > > > with the projected smuggling route fairly hugging the west
side
> > of
> > > > the freeway most of the way from exit 19 to exit 32
> > > >
> > > > so i expect it will be right under the eyes of the border
> patrol
> > > > there near the rest area
> > > > & thus rather hair raising & eyeball popping
> > > > but worth a dry test run first thing tomorrow i would guess