Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure
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How do I know they’re fire ants you ask? Because I stepped in an untreated ant hill near the playground while the kids were playing and looked down to see my entire right foot covered in ants in a matter of seconds. Mind you I stepped on it, not stand in it for any length of time. I took my shoe off and they were in there too. I jumped into the road out of the grass and a car drove by prompting the driver to say out her window “Fire ants?” I was about to take my pants down to make sure the infiltration was not too serious as I was wearing SBG 777s and was unable to get the cuff up above my sock when my wife stopped me before I was able to expose myself in front of a playground full of children. Crisis averted on all levels.
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1975 Silver Streak! This was an old Wally Byum (Airstream founder) design from the 40s right before he started AS. The Jalousie windows are totally rad. The owners invited me inside but I declined politely. No one down here wears masks or practices distancing so they probably thought me rude. Oh well…
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Pinson Mounds St Pk in TN is home to 2000 yr old sacred Native American mounds. The mounds were built by hand using baskets of dirt. They were not villages but rather destination points for things like ceremonies, stargazing, weddings, funerals and the like. The tallest one is Saul’s mound and is about 75’ high. The corners align with NEWS so it’s believed it was an observation tower of some kind.
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I would have taken some more pics but we had to leave before seeing anything else because the kids melted down.
Also, I was dragging a bit because I’m pretty sure we all got COVID in KY last week. The kids had cold symptoms for 2 days and Katie and I felt slightly off last Tuesday. A couple days ago she and I started feeling fatigue, headaches and mild soreness. We hoped it was just a cold but we’re leaning towards COVID now. We’re hiding for the next week just in case. I guess wearing masks doesn’t really help if no one else does. Fortunately I got world class medical care at a military hospital after being helicoptered there and receiving a cocktail of experimental drugs and round the clock treatment. That’s the standard here apparently.
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Beautiful scene! I bet it’s a blast to tool around on your bike in such a flat terrain. How’s everyone feeling? Did y’all end up getting tested for Covid?
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Thank you for asking. We feel ok, just slightly off. I have to keep on top of the ibuprofen to keep a headache at bay and can’t do much without losing my breath but no fever and no soreness outside the usual middle aged man feelings. Small cough, more of a throat clearing. Katie is about the same. Kids are over it. Residual sniffles.
We aren’t getting tested because we don’t really need the diagnosis one way or the other. We don’t need any treatment and we don’t go to school or work plus we know when it started so we’ll just give ourselves two weeks from last Wed before we start making out with strangers.
We figured it was just a matter of time out here in the red zone. We’re all young enough that we figured the risk was acceptable. We’ll just keep up the hand washing and mask wearing and keep on trucking.
