Aug 23, Day 59 - Reserve

Quemado, NM to Reserve, NM

Distance - 54 miles, Av speed - 11.4 mph

Pretty uneventful day, although there were rainclouds hovering above us most of the day, we managed to avoid the rain.

While we are having a break at the Apache Creek general store, we start to notice posters about Mexican wolves, which have been introduced to the area to replace the native wolves, which presumably have been hunted to extinction. Obviously, the feeling here is anti-wolves, because the wolves hunt and eat the elk, meaning less for the hunters? At least the wolves will take out the old and sick elk whereas the hunters take them in their prime. We can’t quite see their logic.

Reserve is a nice town, where they are replacing the town’s main street drainage so that it can cope with the regular floods. We eat dinner in Carmen’s then cross the road to Uncle Bill’s bar. The barowner comes over to chat to us, but starts telling such offensive racist jokes that we have to down our drinks and leave – fast. We rename the bar Uncle Bigot’s bar.