Matt's New Mexico (Formerly Airstream) Adventure
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Last night I was sitting by the fire and I happened to look at the campsite to my left. It looked like a single tree was strung with green xmas lights with a handful of red ones peppered in. I was confused because the tree was about 50’ tall with the lowest branches about half way up. Fireflies? Nope. Those are yellow and blink. Drunk? Not yet.
I grabbed the kids and wife to confirm I was not hallucinating and they saw it too.
A quick internet search revealed it was foxfire, a bioluminescent fungi that I’ve never seen or heard of before. I couldn’t get a good pic because it was very dark and my iPhone is an iPhone. It was pretty magical.
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Reminds me of Snake Eater…
Russian Glowcap
Ration Name: MUSHROOM E
Initial Taste: Fairly Tasty
Stamina Recovery: Special (Recharges battery!)
The Russian glowcap is a kind of luminescent fungus - a mushroom that glows in the dark. It is bioluminescent, just like a firefly. It uses the so-called luciferin-luciferase reaction. To put it simply, luciferin reacts with luciferase in the presence of magnesium two plus ions, breaks it down into oxyluciferin and carbon dioxide. The carbonyl groups in the oxyluciferin are initially in an electrically excited state. When they return to their base state, they give off light.It charges up Snake's batteries when he eats it, much to Para-Medic's confusion.
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"Welcome to Pandora…"
- James Cameron
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The striking part was that it was pitch black but for a single tree glowing in the middle of the woods.
5 hour drive to Kentucky today, just out side of Cincinnati OH. We’re only here for 1 week then we head further in to KY to check out Mammoth Cave Natl Pk. This site has a herd of Bison on the grounds. We’ll check that out tomorrow.
Have a wonderful night…
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Apparently there has been a fundraiser "Ride for Rabbit Hash" to restore the General Store.
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The general store was definitely the town attraction. It had a ton of cool stuff. There was another small shop that reminded me of the old head shop we used to frequent in high school, Karmic Connection. That’s where we used to get all our tie dyed band T-shirt’s and various 90’s alternative youth paraphernalia. I bought some cool incense to support the town. And relive my smelly youth.
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There’s been a bunch of families at this campground with lots of kids that we thought would have been in school by now. Further investigation conducted by my wife, the children and me has revealed they’re all homeschooled and are staying here to visit the nearby Creation Museum. The beautiful irony is that this campground is a national historic site that boasts some of the first major archaeological digs of large prehistoric mammals.
They seem nice and the kids enjoy having friends. We’ve found in our roadschooling research that many of the people who do what we’re doing are super religious.
When my wife isn’t listening I encourage the kids to tell their friends we’re Satanists. They think it’s hilarious.
