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SOMEONE'S YOUTUBE VIDEO OF BLACK GAP

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This is Black Gap as you drive back from Mexico towards Gila Bend. The picture was taken out of my Dodge Shadow after my New Year's Eve trip to the beach house. Photo: January 1999. A year or so before this picture was taken, I was about here or perhaps just beyond the hills when I struck and killed a hummingbird with my car. It was kind of shocking. I don't know which species it was.

  
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THE FOLLOWING ARE DECEMBER 2016 ON MY TRIP the 4th to the 7th







La Brecha Negra en la Carretera 85
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Quería enseñarle esta foto de la Brecha Negra en el condado de Maricopa en Arizona. Consiste en dos conos de cenizas por los cuales pasa una carretera. Las cuestas están cubiertas de lava negra y cactus gigantescos. La cuesta cuenta con una historia que empieza con estas palabras:

—Un premio —dijo mi padre mientras nos acercábamos a la brecha en la carretera rumbo a México en los años sesenta —. A quién me pueda decir a cuantas millas está.

—Tres — le dije. Mis hermanos adivinaron tres y media y cuatro. Para gran sorpresa nuestra resultó que estaba a ochos largas millas, mucho más lejos de lo que creíamos.

Pasamos por la brecha en la carretera como ya habíamos hecho muchas veces antes y que íbamos a hacer un sinnúmero de veces más.

Tomé la foto de arriba en enero de 1999 cuando yo conducía solo de camino a mi casa desde México. Un año antes atropellé y maté un colibrí al pasar por la brecha. No pude identificar la especie.

De todos modos, me gusta la foto y me agrada haber tenido esta oportunidad de mostrársela.


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Black Gap on Highway 85

I wanted to show you this picture of Black Gap in Maricopa County, Arizona. It consists of two cinder cones through which the highway passes. The slopes are covered with black lava and gigantic cacti. There's a story that goes with Black Gap that begins with these words:

"A reward," my father said as we approached the gap in the road to Mexico in the sixties. To whoever can tell me how many miles away it is."

"Three," I said. My brothers guessed three and a half and four, but to our great surprise, it turned out that it was eight miles away, much farther than we had thought.

We went through the gap in the road as we had done many times before and were to do countless more times.

I took the above photo in January 1999 when I was driving alone on my way home from Mexico. A year before, I struck and killed a hummingbird as I passed through the gap. I could not identify the species.
Anyway, I like the photo and I'm glad to have had this opportunity to show it to you.




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THE OTHER PICTURES I TOOK MYSELF BUT HERE'S ONE FROM GOOGLE EARTH:


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