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Haha, my Mom had family in New Mexico I spent a few summers with my cousin there in the eighties. Outside Carlsbad.

We'd go out from dawn to dusk to the Caverns and just run absolutely unchecked. My cousin is nearly two years older than me so was a lot more worldly than me at the time. I remember we found an old Buick someone had abandoned, and us sanding it to collect the rust. (iron oxide) We were trying to get into the cash box of a payphone near Route 62, but we hadn't placed the thermite in the right place and it just went through the top plate and wiring the bottom plate before finally meeting its match on the concrete floor.

My aunt and uncle were living pretty poor back then. My uncle used to repair stuff he could like bike frames or whatever to save money or even make a little coin here and there. He was the one who actually owned one of those Solidox welders with the nasty ass pellets instead of a tank. I always hated the things because I could never work fast enough before the pellet burns out but they certainly had other intriguing end user possibilities....

We had it so good in so many ways.

Fuck I loved my banana 3 speed bike and later a BMX.

Do much nostalgia I wish I could revisit.