We drove from Las Cruces, NM, to Benson, AZ, today, returning to the Escapees park we stayed in last year. This time we were lucky enough to rent a leaseholder's lot for 2 nights, so we had a paved patio and picnic table and a larger site than last year. We walked around enjoying the view of the mountains rising across the valley from the park, which is situated on a hillside.
Everyone was quite friendly. One of our neighbors named Sandy stopped when I was walking Sweetie to ask what kind of dog she was. It turned out that Sandy and her husband also had a (probable) dachshund-beagle mix rescue dog. Theirs is named Mandy, and is only eight years old--bright eyed, energetic, and with a shiny coat, darker in color than Sweetie's, but with a very similar face and temperament.
We took advantage of the library to borrow a couple of DVDs and some books. One of the DVDs was Letters from Iwo Jima, a haunting telling of the story of the battle for Iwo Jima from the experience of ordinary Japanese soldiers. Unfortunately the DVD was defective, so it froze and pixilated at several points, but nothing could prevent the film from being extremely moving.
The night sky here is dark and lovely with stars, with the clarity of the desert air.
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