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You just never know what the tortoise will find on his journeys.  I was minding my own business looking for a place to walk to get some elevation, knowing I would be crossing the Continental Divide today.  The gas station attendant in Springerville, AZ was the first person to tip me off to the existence of Pie Town, and that simply to tell me that if I blinked I would miss the town entirely.  Well, if you don't blink, here's what you'll get...

As always, the Pie Festival will be held on the Second Saturday of September. Please check the Pie Festival Schedule page for times and locations of spefic events.  Hey, Ledge, be sure to bring plenty of Thrifty ice cream (but make sure not to bring it through the Gorge on the way, it just might explode)

There's also a Baptist church in this small town, so plenty of religion here

Why did I not think they would have this truck here?  Wow.

View on the Continental Divide Trail headed south of town.  This is where I turned and went back.

Here's the stats and map on this walk in Catron County, New Mexico:

2.29 miles with 128 feet climbed in 51 minutes, a HumanaFit category 5 climb.  Tortoise rating:  4.3, reflecting the 7800 foot elevation here.  Chapter 3 totals are now 72.02 miles walked in 28 hours 37 minutes, with 4,249 feet climbed, and 11 swims totalling 4,240 meters in 4 hour 34 minutes.  It was my eleventh category 5 climb, and first since July 9.  Totals of my category 5 climbs is 19.79 miles with 1,604 feet climbed in 7 hours 7 minutes.

I never could find any Continental Divide Trail signs.  In asking at breakfast, I was told that this is part of the section of trail where you walk on the road, and that the trail crosses highway 60 and follows highway 603 north out of town.  So no CDT pictures, but plenty of others.


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Benjamin, Becca, and any of their friends who have their own opinions of New Mexico, what say ye of this?

Eating, with net calories today after deducting exercise: 

Calorie Goal: 2,458 Calories Consumed: 2,579 Calories Burned: 386 Net Calories: 2,193

Food Item	Servings	Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
Buckwheat Blueberry Pancake	1.00	132	3g	2mg	244mg	22g	0g	3g	6g
2 Scrambled Eggs	1.00	199	15g	400mg	211mg	2g	2g	0g	13g
Bacon	1.00	109	9g	16mg	303mg	0g	0g	0g	6g
Arbys Medium Roast Beef Sandwich	1.00	440	17g	75mg	1,380mg	40g	5g	2g	33g
Almond	57.00	399	34g	0mg	0mg	11g	6g	6g	17g
Popeyes Biscuit	1.00	240	13g	0mg	490mg	26g	2g	1g	4g
Popeye's Red Beans and Rice	1.00	230	14g	10mg	580mg	23g	0g	5g	7g
Popeyes Mild Chicken Thigh	1.00	390	27g	150mg	890mg	12g	0g	0g	25g
Popeye's Mild Fried Chicken Breast	1.00	440	27g	110mg	1,330mg	16g	0g	2g	35g
Fitness	Minutes	Cals Burned
Walk: 2.5 mph (24min/mi)	51.0	-386.0
Totals		Cals	Fat	Cholest	Sodium	Carbs	Sugars	Fiber	Protein
		2,193	159g	763mg	5,428mg	152g	14g	19g	146g

Read more: http://www.livestrong.com/thedailyplate/diary/who/#ixzz20nCgQrnD

Today's Last Word ...

I read Amos 9, Obadiah, Jonah 1-2 at the Pie Town community park this morning, which includes the well known story of Jonah ...

 1 Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord his God out of the fish’s belly,

 2 And said, I cried by reason of mine ^aaffliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of ^bhell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

 6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou ^abrought up my life from corruption, O Lord my God.

If the Lord can hear our voice there, he can hear it anywhere ... from anyone!

Cheerio!