Today I was walking down a trail toward Pima Canyon... after a geocache farther up the trail, of course... and I was surprised to run into a local resident. He was one of the really strange desert folks that you hear about. These guys keep to themselves, and rarely come into town. He was walking down the trail in the opposite direction from me. When we came upon each other, we both stopped and looked each other over briefly. Neither of us spoke, and after a little bit, I just brushed past him without a word. I figured he was not in a talking mood. As I continued on down the trail, I glanced back to see him also continuing up the trail in the other direction.
I hiked on down the path for a tenth of a mile or so, found the cache and logged it. Then I headed back toward my car, back up the trail the way I came in. I hoped I would bump into the fellow again, but he had disappeared into the desert. I don't see his kind often as I am out hiking around through the cacti and Palo Verde... so it was nice to know these strange desert folks are still around.
Oh, and I also saw a turtle today. Here are a couple of pictures.....
The encounter
Heading down the path
Just kidding... of course the turtle was the local resident. :-)
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