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Day 43. Silver City, NM is the town that places like Sisters would have been if all the money hadn't rolled in. The streets are lined with galleries filled with the quirkiest kinds of art. Most restaurants and coffee shops feature live music. Buildings are mostly brick and stone, a bit old and shabby, but in a funky, cool sort of way. The people are very friendly. We haven't seen this many gray ponytails in one place in a long time. As one local (of ten years) told us, as NM is known as "The Land of Enchantment", Silver City area is the "Land of Entrapment", since he felt he couldn't leave once he'd discovered the place. We are feeling much the same as we escape the spin and head for points west. It was to be trivia night at Isaac's, with spaghetti and bison meatballs......but the road calls. We have places to be and birthdays to celebrate!














And what a road it is. Forty miles and 2000 feet down to the interstate, then heading west. Just a little further, we'll see something.....just past Gila Bend......well, let's try Tonopah. Nothing there except the kind of motel frequented by axe murderers......Quartzite?.....uh, no. It's still 80+ outside as we drive into the sun glaring thru our windshield. We settle on Ehrenberg, AZ, across the Colorado River from Blythe, CA. There we learn that Arizona doesn't turn clocks back and forth twice a year, and that we've arrived an hour earlier than we thought we had.