Arizona Trail: changing the rules

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An exhausted and sore Blissful Hiker takes a "nero" in Patagonia, then changes her rules on accepting rides on the trail. 
 
In this episode:

1. Blissful awakes form cowgirl camping only seven hilly miles outside Patagonia, where she takes her first half-day off called a "nero" since it's not a full day like a "zero" and sleeps in a cozy bed. 
2. It's a long road out of town that starts on black top, that turns to dirt and finally boulder-filled straight up into the Santa Rita Mountains. 
3. She gets bit by an ant and develops a red, hot rash on the back of her thigh, then accepts a ride on the rocky road from a rancher, who helps her up the mountain. 
4. A jeep train comes through and gives her another ride - maybe in all, it  totals one mile, but takes her past the worst of slippery rock. 
5. Over a saddle below Mount Wrightson, she enters a beautiful new world of tall ponderosa pine and rolling hills where she finds a magical campsite on a sky island on top of a sky island. 

MUSIC: Introduccion  y allegro by Carlos Guastavino as played by Alison Young, flute and Vicki Seldon, piano

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