Our Black Widow Spider
Campsite by "Black Widow Flats"
Sunset over Black Widow Flats April 11th
Camp fire by Black Widow Flats
Storm over Black Widow Flats
Sunset on April 12th
Storm coming in on April 12th
We were 70 miles south of Albuquerque, New Mexico in the Cibola National Forest 3 miles off the main highway on a dirt road headed into the mountains when we saw a turn off that looked inviting and relatively flat (think 30 foot RV's). We found our spot on land supervised by the National Forest Service which allows free camping. Find your spot in the wilderness - "take pictures and leave no footprints". We gathered wood of dead "One Seed Juniper" trees for an evening campfire. We had pulled off the two track dirt road into an area that had been used about 30 years ago that had a fire ring in place. Richard decided to make the fire ring a bit smaller. In so doing he picked up the rocks and found our second Black Widow spider of our travels! The first one was in Texas. That one we left with her babies. This one , he evolved into the next life! We have been naming each of our campsites and you guessed it! This one will forever be - Black Widow Flats! We stayed two nights with the sweet scented Juniper. Bike rides and long walks - brief stormy rain that made the air fresh and clean.
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