Saturday March 15

It was a little chillier than I've gotten used to this
morning. Put on hat and gloves for the first time in
a couple weeks. But by 9:00 it was nice and warm.
Sat through an hour long sales pitch by a very
pleasant guy. Nothing I'm interested in but not a bad
price to pay for two nights stay.

Drove to Jerome, AZ, an old copper mining town that
flourished at the turn of the 19th-20th century, died
in the 1950's and was brought back to life by
hippie-entrepreneurs to the point that you can't find
parking on a Saturday afternoon. Art galleries, cafes
and shlock shops. The town reminded me of mountain
villages in Tuscany with narrow streets built up the
side of cliffs. You can see for 50 miles from
anyplace in town and there is a great little museum
that devotes a significant amount of space to
prostitution during the mining heyday. One of the
perks of working for the mining company was a weekly
visit to a brothel.

Spent the evening with the couple camping next door.
He rolled up yesterday with a chromed out Yamaha
cruiser pulling a little trailer and she came later on
with a car. His trailer opened into a tent bigger
than the toaster, complete with double bed, table and
lamp and all off the ground supported by a spider web
of aluminum tubes. They were married for a few years
in the late 60's, got divorced and went separate ways
for 24 years having 3 children apiece, got divorced
and found each other again in 1995. Have been together
again ever since.

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