I just came across this picture of my precious Mom that was taken last summer. Just shortly before she got really sick she decided we should take a take a road trip. She had purchased a piece of property in Candy Kitchen, New Mexico. It is the most amazing place out in the middle of the boonies!
My brother Brad met me in Arizona and we traveled from there together. It was a LONG trip. My Mom really was not up to traveling but she wanted to stand on the corner of Winslow,Arizona and see the Grand Canyon once before she died.
The reason she purchased the piece of property was so she would have a legacy. She wanted generations to come to know she was here:).
There is a road that separates her property from the Zuni Reservation. We have named it "Chottie's Road", that was her nickname as a child.
We did stop at the corner of Winslow, Arizona and she did see the Grand Canyon! Of course Brad almost died pushing her wheelchair up the hills:).
It was the biggest adventure of a life time! We were actually crazy to take this frail 80 year old woman on a trip like this, but it was her idea:).
We spent time at the Ice Caves and enjoying the Indian culture. We laughed and cried together during a freak storm when her electric wheelchair turned it's self on when the lightning hit our R.V.
We went on a treasure hunt and discovered gold and arrowheads laying on the ground.:)
The three of us enjoyed being together dreaming of how we would build a house for all of us to sleep in when we came to visit our little piece of paradise.
Unfortunately, that would be the only trip she would make as her health deteriorated quickly after that trip.
When I look at her picture I remember the joy she had dreaming of her family having a place to meet and spend time together.
She may not be here to experience that dream, but she is with all those who had gone before her enjoying her new place of paradise.
A place where we will a meet again! I look forward to that day of reunion!
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