17 days, 8 cities, 3,400 miles later, and we are home again. Lulu was very happy to see us, even though she was very well taken care of by our friends. I think she will be missing our vacation as much as we did. But for now she is content to have us home. It was great fun to see graffiti that came from WWII, and more images (below) that came from thousands of years before that. We met people at the peak of their careers, choosing Marfa as a place to be while they make their bones in the journalism or art worlds. I hope they don't feel locked down. I met an old friend who lived out his career as what we used to call a Tramp Miner, and is now retired to Silver City, NM, a place I almost moved to when I was 24. We saw amazing things that you read about your whole life, like the Petrified Forest, and realize that yes, you should see things like this at least once. Or twice There are amazing things that get preserved in a county that gets no rain. Like a thousand year old meteor crater...