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To: Sully- who wrote (62355)	8/25/2005 3:46:49 PM
From: elpolvo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

re: bump sign suxeh.net that picture is of hwy 550 about 5 or 6 miles south of huérfano (the orphan butte on the horizon in the photo) on the way to farmington from albuquerque. the navajo name for the butte is "dzil na' oodilii". ...a lot of history in that stretch of road. the anasazi used to use that route from chaco canyon to salmon ruins and southern colorado. my grandfather used to travel the route with horses and wagons 100 years ago. it used to take him three weeks to make the trip one way. my dad ran off that road and rolled his car in the 1940's. my mother was with him. she was nine months pregnant with my older brother. no one was badly hurt but the car was totaled. i first drove the entire distance in a 1948 oldsmobile when i was eleven. it took me eight hours (with some long rest stops). there were a lot of fatalities on that road. when i lived in aztec in 1963 a few people had bumper stickers that said, "Pray for me. I drive Highway 550." i used to fly the route in the 1970's in about an hour. i guess it's four lanes all the way now. you can see the construction in your photo. i haven't driven it for eight or ten years. i tend to head south when i leave here... now that i'm older... oh... mexico. (see that snow on the ground in the photo?) i do not like it sam-i-am. -elpolvo