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Read all about it here in chapter 13 of my book The Javelina Man
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The picture from Google Earth
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What a COOL place to live!
Doubtful, but possible site of Headlight Pond with Roadrunner Resort to the right.
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I went looking for Headlight Pond using Google Earth. We used to go there to bird watch. I wondered if the pond still existed. I doubted it but the place must still be somewhere. Still looking for it. Have some other possible sites. Anyhow, while I was looking, I ran across Roadrunner Lake Resort and I found that it is closing in 2019 as the 50-year lease is up. Now Roadrunner Lake Resort is 50 years old and our first trip to Headlight Pond was 47 years ago (Saturday April 17, 1971). But it COULD have been small then likely and not very noticible. Just the same, I rather doubt that this picture is of Headlight Pond. |
The picture from Google Earth
Roadrunner Lake Resort2.jpg
What a COOL place to live!
Doubtful, but possible site of Headlight Pond with Roadrunner Resort to the right.
 I saw that settlement in the middle of the Indian Reservation. I saw what I thought just might be Headlight Pond and then I saw the resort next to it... I got interested. Roadrunner Lake Resort2.jpg What a COOL place to live!   Roadrunner Lake Resort2d.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort2e.jpg  WHOA! THEY REALLY KILLED IT!  Roadrunner Lake Resort Dead Letter.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort Dead A.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort Dead B.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort Dead C.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort Dead D.jpg I live on the border of the Rez.jpg  Roadrunner Resort dead dead.jpg  Roadrunner Resort dead dead dead.jpg |
It looks really nice, but the lease is up and
they're going to close it and all these old folks
will be booted out and can't sell their lots.
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ON THE RESORTOne guy says it's run by ignorant hillbillies. If you look at it, it really looks like a nice place to be but even if that is so it's not for long.   Roadrunner Lake Resort2c.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort2g.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort2f.jpg Roadrunner Lake Resort2h.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort2i.jpg  Roadrunner Lake Resort2j.jpg s
13. El asentamiento del Lago Correcaminos Al escribir el ensayo “El conjunto de jazz”, “La Charca Faro”, un capítulo de mi libro Parece que fuera ayer, me vino a la mente. Mis padres y yo fuimos a la charca seis veces en los años 1971, 1972, 1973, y 1975 para observar pájaros. Ya no sé la ubicación de la charca y escribo que ahora es como si fuera un lugar que ya no existe. Solamente sé que la charca estaba en el mismo área donde estudiaba jazz en el community college, así que yo empezé a buscar la charca. Escribo: . La semana pasada por casualidad, cuando buscaba un atajo a casa de una clase de jazz en cottsdale, yo pasaba por el área y miraba buscando indicios de la charca. . Como conducía a la clase una vez a la semana, iba a tener oportunidades de encontrar la charca y hice búsquedas con Google Earth para ver las fotos del área. Una foto del satélite me parecía ser una charca seca. Estaba al oeste de un asentamiento de jubilados en la reserva de los indígenas en medio de la nada. Ahora dudo que fuera la charca que recuerdo y aunque he encontrado otros candidatos mejores, no he logrado localizar la charca. Otro día, tal vez. La foto del asentamiento, sin embargo, me interesaba. Me gustaba el lago en la parte central y la piscina y lo que parecía ser un bar. Se asemejaba un poquito a la del asentamiento de jubilados mío. Hay también una reserva de Indios aquí pero no estamos dentro de la reserva. Desafortunadamente, los jubilados del Asentamiento del Lago Correcaminos estaban en medio de la reserva y me enteré de que su alquiler de cincuenta años iba a terminar en 2019. 
Donde vivo al borde de una reserva Eso es lo que pasó. Las fotos del satélite ahora son como las que se toman después del bombardeo de una ciudad. Echaron por tierra las casas y en lugar de hogares hay un gran basurero. No sé porque decidieron hacer esto. Me parece una mala jugada y no entiendo lo que podría haber ganado la tribu. De todos modos, el Asentamiento del Lago Correcaminos se ha reunido con La Charca Faro, dos lugares que solamente solían ser. 13. Roadrunner Lake Resort When I wrote the essay "The Jazz Ensemble", “Headlight Pond,” a chapter in my book It Seems like Only Yesterday, came to mind. My parents and I went to the pond six times in 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1975 to bird watch. I no longer know the location of the pond and write in the chapter that it is now as if it were a place that no longer exists. All I know is that the pond was in the same general area where I was studying jazz at the community college, and so I started looking for the pond. I write: Last week, by chance, when I was looking for a shortcut home from a jazz ensemble class in Scottsdale, I passed by the area and looked out the window for signs of the pond. Since I was driving to class once a week, I was going to have opportunities to find the pond and I did Google Earth searches to see photos of the area. One photo seemed to me to be a dry pond. It was west of a retirement settlement on the Indian reservation in the middle of nowhere. I now doubt that it was the Headlight Pond that I remember, and although I have found other better candidates, I still can’t say that I’ve found the pond. Another day, perhaps. The photo of the settlement, however, interested me. I liked the lake in the central part and the pool and what appeared to be a bar. It looked a little like the satellite photo of my own retirement settlement. There is also an Indian reservation here but we are on the border, not inside the rez. Unfortunately, the retirees from the Roadrunner Lake Resort were in the middle of the reservation and I learned that their fifty-year lease was going to be up in 2019. Where I live on the edge of the rez That's what happened. The satellite photos are now like those taken after a city is bombed. They demolished the houses and instead of homes, there is now a large garbage dump. I don't know why they decided to do this. It seems like a dirty trick to me and I don’t understand what the tribe could have gained from it. Anyway, the Roadrunner Lake Resort has now joined Headlight Pond, two places that only used to be. |
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