Christmas Hikes

The day before Christmas we hiked a few miles into Alamo Canyon and saw this sign and metal tower with a strobe light and antenna on top in the middle of nowhere. I like it. I want it. I need one outside my front door, so that every time life stresses me out and I feel like zombie-guy on the right I can just push the button and everything will be just fine.
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The rest of the hike was beautiful up the canyon to where a creek flowed over ground for just a short while and an old homestead was slowly decaying in the desert sun. Very peaceful and no one around but us.We had a quick lunch and spent a lot of time thinking about what it must have been like to be so isolated.

On Christmas day we hiked the other direction to the old Victoria Mine. That was a lot of up and down into washes and over ridges and the 5 miles felt much longer. Plus the Border Patrol showed up just before we got to the mine to see who we were. Very weird. Here we are hiking in the hot sun in the middle of nowhere and these guys show up on a tiny little washed out road in their big 4WD. They were very polite as we were obviously 2 older senior citizen types of white bread variety so not what they were looking for. Kinda creeped us out and we decided that we had enough.