... long ago took me away from one of my favorite places I've lived. The place where I worked emergency services for 8 years. Where I lived up in the mountains in a log cabin. Where daily chains were necessary in winter; steep grades, 3 miles of narrow dirt road. A place where I was one of the oddballs - being more or less "normal".

I'm now about 100 miles away on the other side of the mountains but I still keep in touch. There was an incident over there yesterday - a 15 mile, high speed chase along a twisty - but paved - canyon road with low visibility, rocks on one side, a creek on the other. And spike strips.

The sheriff's office released a photo.

I see the deputy cleaned up for his photo ...

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