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To: Lane3 who wrote (17909)	7/20/2002 6:18:57 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

The ban on outdoor smoking was here in Ruidoso. I hadn't heard about Tombstone sinking, I'll ask my cousin about that. I thought about going to Bisbee, but time was a little short so I proceeded on to El Paso instead. I took in a lot, stopped by Tubac and Tumacacori, visited the San Xavier mission, but I didn't visit all the places I would have liked. Didn't get to the Pancho Villa State Park in Columbus, NM either. I'll be back out this way soon enough, though. Speaking of him, I picked up an interesting book called Pancho Villa and John Reed. I had no idea the communist intellectual Reed had fallen in with Villa. The book also says Tom Mix went down there to support him. I'll bet they don't talk about that at the Tom Mix museum in Dewey, OK. I'll have to mention it to em. <g> Had a chance to get some Cubans in Nogales, but I was so loaded down with stuff I kept walking by the shop. Thought I'd wait until I got to Juarez, but when I got there and found out there were no weekday bullfights I didn't care enough to seek out a smoke shop. I had forgotten my camera, and a couple of times while driving I wished I had had it. But I told myself they were nature shots and I'll be out here again, so no big deal. While waiting in line to cross back into this country I noticed that there were no cars entering Mexico. This was because a bunch of rigs and other large trucks had blocked the road at the crossing, and there were maybe a couple hundred Mexican farm workers protesting on the bridge. They were irate over the imprisonment of one of their leaders, a man named Armando Villareal. I would have loved to have gotten a few shots of all that. Interesting that some of the rigs were from American companies. This is all I know of the story, really must find out more. Are we seeing a revival of the Cesar Chavez days?

To: Lane3 who wrote (17909)	7/20/2002 6:35:29 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

Forgot to answer your question about Ruidoso. Yes, there are things to do here if you like going to the racetrack or the casinos. It's up in the mountains so there is a bunch of outdoor stuff to do at the resorts. The downtown area is turning into a little Taos, all kinds of artisans and other shops there now. In fact, its growing so fast my cousins are moving to a town 20 miles away, they're tired of it. When they moved here 20 years ago Ruidoso was a small town that not many people knew about. I guess it was inevitable this would happen, its a beautiful area and the mountain air is clean.