The short answer is: this wasn't accidental.
Amanda had lived this life before—she knew exactly why she wanted to come back. Her family has been in this part of New Mexico since homestead days. Not recently. Not casually. Generations of ranching, working this same ground. This isn't a place we discovered—it's one we stepped into, then chose to build our life around.
We've been here over twenty years now—raised our family here, built everything we have here. We live on a working cattle ranch in the high prairie of northeastern New Mexico, where the horizon is broken only by ancient volcanic formations. The closest groceries—and any restaurant—are nearly a hundred miles round trip. You don't end up here by accident. You plan for it.
This place doesn't give anything easily. Dry years. Wet years. Wind in all of them. Everything that survives out here—plants, wildlife, people—has earned it.
And in exchange, you get to live inside a kind of beauty most people will never experience—and fewer still will understand.
