This trip was out of necessity and on a timeline, worst kind. The lease on the F150 I picked up while working the oil patch was up and I had to turn it in. Problem was I was broke, on

The Professor Mike Bright suggested "Okrie Springs" after the nearby Okra fields; in the summer months when the heat was worse, "Satan's rim" seemed more appropriate for this sulphurous, steaming pool, bubbling darkly up from the cracked desert floor. When

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