No Martini Tonight!

Downtown Silver City at the Java Hut, we were there at 7:15 but it was closed!  I hadn’t had a coffee of any kind for 3 days; I refuse to sip the hotel crap!  A car pulled up behind us and out hopped a woman who said she would open early, before 8 am, and make us a coffee!  You gotta love good customer service; the vanilla latte was so tasty to a caffeine starved biker!

The coffee propelled us up and over the mountains on highway 180 into Arizona where we viewed the fire charred trees and grass in Luna and Alpine.  The unfortunate town of Alpine suffered after the thunder showers last night; they had flash flooding which left logs, dirt, and rocks across the main street of town!

We travelled north on Arizona highway #191 thru pastures that have green grass appearing after the recent rains.  Herds of horses with their young, sheep with the dogs guarding them, and cattle roamed free.  On the street in downtown Window Rock were at least six cows wandering freely beside the traffic nibbling on the grass and trees!  There are three or four homeless dogs drinking from the hotel fountain and rummaging around the garbage bins.  I took our dinner rolls and one of my chicken fingers to feed them; they were thankful!

There won’t be a Martini tonight as there are no bars in this Navajo Nation Capital, back to New Mexico tomorrow.

WINDOW ROCK, ARIZONA

531/5012 kms