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We own a 1975 GMC Sierra Grande 15 in Maine and a 1986 Chevrolet Custom Deluxe 10 in West Texas. Also a pair of 1997 Volvo 850 wagons. Average age in the fleet is 28 years--we're recycling. I've published 3 novels: THE LAW OF DREAMS (2006), THE O'BRIENS (2012), and CARRY ME (2016). Also 2 short story collections: NIGHT DRIVING(1987) and TRAVELLING LIGHT (2013). More of my literary life is at www.peterbehrens.org I was a Fellow at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study for 2012-13. I'm an adjunct professor at Colorado College and in the MFA program at Queens University of Charlotte. In 2015-16 I was a Fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. The Autoliterate office is in Car Talk Plaza in Harvard Square, 2 floors above Dewey Cheatem & Howe. SUBSCRIBE TO THE AUTOLITERATE DAILY EMAIL by hitting the button to the right.

Sunday, October 7, 2012

Another Roadside Attraction: Eagle Nest, New Mexico

Drove US 64 from Taos over the mountains to Raton, New Mexico. High plains within the mountains are a landscape that has always spoken to me. The Yah-ha-Tinda in Alberta was the first time I experienced that sort of country in the West. I've always loved the landscape of the Eastern Sierra--esp. around Bridgeport, CA--and the country around Eagle Nest, New Mexico, where I grabbed these photos this morning, was that kind of unexpected wide open. Taos was shrouded under freezing fog when I left but up over the first range east it was clear. The town of Eagle Nest, N.M.  is at over  8000'. We're spending the year in The Netherlands, and I admire the careful way the Dutch guard their landscape--and especially the civil way they live in their towns and cities--but part of me was craving the careless, wide open West, and here it is.
    Speaking of altitude, I'm reading Wade Davis' Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest. A ripping yarn.


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