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electric_blue68

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42. Tangential story ...

Fri Jun 26, 2026, 09:11 PM

16 hrs ago

While on a Gray Line tour in a car (pretty sure) in the high AZ desert - Navajo or just inside The Hopi Nation (July 1980) memory's a bit fuzzy... I think the water pipe burst, I'm pretty sure we didn't run out of gas...
Anyway the four of us had to get out and push it ?4 blocks or so to the small town. We sat in restaurant for 2-3 hrs till it was repaired. Then our guide took us on the rest of our tour.

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