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April 2, 2019
Rio Chama, New Mexico
Holman Elementary School was located on Highway 518 about halfway between Moro and Rio Chama. Carlotta agreed to meet Ramsey at Eagle County Park during her afternoon break from teaching. The park was hardly more than a picnic area alongside the Moro reservoir. Its low-lying cottonwoods had already finished blooming. Ramsey sat at one of the picnic benches, pulled out his tablet, and began responding to some pressing business matters. It felt good to be engaged in some normal human geographical problems for a change. After a while he looked up with a wide smile at the large 2001 Dodge Ram pickup truck he had just parked in the lot. Ramsey had not driven a stick shift like this since his graduate field days at UCLA, when he drove across the Sonoran
