The Way Back Home
I decided that I needed to get away. There's just an unhealthy amount of bad news and there's nothing I can do about it. So I decided to load the old Nissan pickup with hiking and camera gear, round up Cheyenne and head off to the old family cabin in CrowMac Creek. It had been a long trip from Kansas, but I enjoyed driving the road between Payson and CrowMac Creek. I thought of the times I'd slipped along that same old road in my younger years. A turning lane is available just as you enter town and Hardscrabble Road is the second turn. I love the scent of Ponderosa Pine that permeates Pine Valley, and I look forward to my spending my first night on the Rim. I took a right at Edna's Cafe and an immediate left up the road to the OD green cabin with dark brown trim. I turned onto the driveway and pulled up to the pine tree and stopped the truck. Cheyenne jumped out of the camper shell and began to sniff out all of...