Mom's Log
Day 23
Sunday, June 19
Texas to New Mexico
At “Aerodrome,” met 20 skydivers—no time for Martha to skydive! [One of the jumpers offered to take me on a tandem jump but dusk was approaching.] Luis Cowley flew M to Albuquerque, New Mexico and to Tom and Elise Baker’s home in Tijeras, a suburb. Tom worked on his Piper Super Cub but did not get it ready. He deposits ashes from cremations up on the Gila Cliff Dwellings (thousands of years old). Martha tried to go up to the dwellings in her motor home on her previous trip out west in 1985, but the motor home could not handle the altititude.
Martha went into a Spanish town with Elise and bought lightweight, beige cotton fabric and sewed a pair of summer jodhpurs for herself using Elise’s sewing machine. Stayed on Sunday night and Monday in their log cabin home in the beautiful mountains. [Tom played Scott Joplin tunes on their upright piano. In the morning the two peacocks on the porch made a loud screaming racket—a morning ritual. Both are talented creative people, and did beautiful calligraphy.]
Day 24
Monday, June 20
New Mexico
[Did not fly today. While Tom worked on his plane all day today, Elise took me on a great driving tour of some of the outskirts and little towns near Albequerque. She and I became fast friends - we had a really great time together.]