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Day 123: What even goes there

November 4, 2013April 19, 2015 / carrot quinn

August 21
Mileage 27.5
Mile 1994.6 to mile 2022 plus 1.5 miles to Big Lake Youth Camp

my face in the morning.

my face in the morning.

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mile 2000!!

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Huckleberries!

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"As we walk past the log cabins I think of how tightly we white people cling to the myth of the American west, of pioneers in wooden wagons, immigrants setting out and persevering through great hardship. Making due. “Conquering” the land. Thriving against all odds. As white Americans it is our only remembered ancestral connection to the earth, and I believe that this is one of the heartbreaking reasons we hold onto this myth so tightly. My ancestors were poor immigrants fleeing famine and violence in Ireland, but it doesn’t matter. Just because a people experiences oppression at one point doesn’t mean they aren’t capable of commiting even worse oppression onto others. Israel’s current occupation of Palestine is a good example of this. My ancestors were scabs, brought into the west in droves to help force Indigenous people off their land, as well as kill them. In order to create real cultural change, we’ve got to change the myth. We have to let go. We have to tell the true story of this country, a story that centers Indigenous people. It’s the only way that anything will change." ✨New posts from the #mogollonrimtrail up on the blog! Link in profile.✨
"I often dream that I’m lost in some huge, ancient, labrynthine, falling down house, wandering forgotten corridors and discovering secret rooms, meeting interesting people or alternately, being chased. One house in particular I’ve visited a number of times in my dreams; sometimes friends are living there, in lofts they’ve built of scrap wood or behind curtains of dumpstered velvet, in rooms with peeling wallpaper and antiques left behind from tenants a century ago. Sometimes I’m living in this house. Sometimes I come home and my friends are gone, and strangers are occupying my room, and I can’t find my things. I wander the halls and climb narrow staircases, searching. I move deeper and deeper into the heart of the house. Always there’s a feeling of mourning, of having lost something beautiful and irreplacable forever. An aching, excruciating longing. Tonight I visit this house in my dreams and the people there are strangers but there are scrapbooks left behind by my friends who once lived there, their collages are still on the walls, their knickknacks still line the windowsills. I beg the people in the house to let me look at the scrapbooks, walk through the rooms, touch the items. The people don’t know who I am. They think I’m insane. I don’t care, though." ✨ Day 23 from the #mogollonrimtrail is up on my blog- link in Profile! Muffy and I have 13 more posts just waiting to go up, the next one will go up when Francis' fundraiser reaches $3,500- it needs just $45 more! And thank you SO MUCH to everyone who has already contributed! 😀
Put peanut butter in your oreos, yall. We've been making our way through the white mountains of AZ in lush overgrown drainages and burnt forests full of blowdowns, in cold rain, hail and bright sun, and it has been epic and brutal and fun. @muffyjdavis and I have so many blog posts to share!! The next one goes up when Francis' fundraiser reaches $3,200- link in my profile! 🌝🌝🌝 📷 by @muffyjdavis #mogollonrimtrail
Everyone, please go read this article by @skynoire of @melaninbasecamp . It is INCREDIBLE. Link in their profile and mine! ✨ Also, have you donated to the fundraiser for Francis' asylum appeal yet? Muffy and I have many blog posts written and just waiting to go up- If all my followers here donated $1 it would cover all of Francis' legal fees AND that would release all of our content for the rest of the #MogollonRimTrail ! We get back on trail today for the last sections of the route- very excited to share our stories!!!🤓 Link in profile ✨
We are having a wild, wonderful, dusty, chafing, thirsty, elated, sunburnt time out here. Muffy and I each have eight more blog posts written that are just waiting to go up- the next one goes up when Francis' asylum appeal fundraiser (link in profile) reaches $2,400, and then one post for each $100 after that. Let's help Francis pay his legal fees! And then yall can read about all the gross cattle ponds we're drinking from, lol. And thank you so much to everyone who's donated so far! ✨😀✨
Francis' asylum appeal fundraiser only needs $55 more (to reach $2,000), and day 10 from the #MogollonRimTrail will go up on BOTH of our blogs. 😀 Link in profile ✨😀✨

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