I owe thanks to so many people in the state of New Mexico who went out of their way to help me in the aftermath of the burglary. Which just really does illustrate the point about the one bad apple in the bushel...
The 1st people i owe gratitude to are the staff at the Carson NF Ranger District office. In addition to letting this trail filthy guy take over a corner of their office to make phone calls they assisted with getting state police and other numbers and allowed me to empty the bear ravaged car in their parking lot to inventory before the police arrived.
Which brings me to Officer Daniel Cordova of the NM State Police. Nicest guy, got me through the whole process in no time. Not to mention a great source of info on the area and "driving times..."
This info soon came in very handy; my dad (another life saver in this experience) had been working the phones and web for me, finding a glass shop that would fix the car that day. There was one, but it was in Albuquerque, and making it there before closing was going to be tough. So, using the trooper's advice on traffic and speed limit areas, i made a cannonball run down Interstate 25, from Taos to Albuquerque, making the 142 mile drive in under 2 hrs. Quick note--my route followed the Camino Real, the historic route b/w Santa Fe and Mexico City, when that was all Spanish territory.
Which got me to the Speedy glass shop shortly before closing. The technician, Nick, got right to fixing the glass, and loaned me the use of the vacuum cleaner to start some of the heavy cleaning of bear mess.
But i really owe a ton of thanks to Priscilla at Speedy, who located and gave me directions to the local shopping, including the Verizon store--
Where Romelia had me set up with a new phone, making phone calls, in about 15 minutes. When she heard my story, she told her manager, and they were able to put together a bundle of chargers and accessories for me, and got me a rebate, which considerably softened the financial blow of losing my phone.
I owe a great debt of gratitude to all of these wonderful folks; their collective efforts really contributed to my checking into a hotel in Albuquerque that night in a great state of mind and ready to get on with the process of restocking and cleaning up. Clearly, despite the break-in and theft, New Mexico was a great experience. And while I'll devote a separate post to reflecting on the entire situation (and describing the cleaning,) I do want to say here that i firmly believe that keeping a positive state of mind that day and not holding a grudge from the get go really helped. You do get back what you put out there in life, and while i'm sure that i could've justified (to myself) a bit of spite and anger, getting into a snit and staying there all day, i doubt people would've extended themselves as much to someone like that. Which in turn would've made the experience even worse, in a self perpetuating loop... well, more on that later anyway.
Thanks again New Mexico!!
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