Scott’s Adventures in New Mexico
Tumbling Tumbleweed looking for home
" Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a Roy Rodgers cowboy song, sung around the campfire with fellow cowhands on a starry night, with a crackling fire, when the herd is quiet and coyotes are howling harmony. The song's lyrics are plaintive as the western...
Little Girl on her Wrist Phone Scotttreks at work
The map on one of the Starbuck's walls shows several continents. When you spread the world out, pin it to a wall, you take out all its bumps, contours, unknowns, inconsistencies. When Columbus laid out his world map on the sturdy table in his Captain's...
Talking with a Man of Bones Glenn Kostur plays the blues
My last conversation with a skeleton was at an Albuquerque Starbucks, on Halloween. Before that, I shared a sidewalk bench one sunny afternoon, with a man of bones in Tulum, Mexico. Today, outside the Kaktus Brewing Company in Bernalillo, New Mexico,...
Kaktus Brewing Company Blues Jam 2/17/19, Bernalillo, New Mexico
Bernalillo is a small rural town just north of Albuquerque. The town has some dirt roads, manufactured homes in disrepair, livestock grazing in back yards, Obama signs in front yards. The Rio Grande River and the Bosque, a cottonwood forest, flow through town on their...
Playing for the crowd Nosotros,Valentines Day, 2019
If you want to know what people are looking for, count the cars in the parking lot. Tonight, the parking lot is packed. The dance floor is also packed,dancers barely having enough room to stand. The band is hitting their notes, ladies are dressed to...
Between a Rock and a Hard Place Embudo Canyon Hike- Albuquerque
This rock, more than a stone but not a boulder, in Embudo Canyon in the Albuquerque foothills, has been moved onto the trail, by something other than wind, water or wishes. It appears to have been lifted from a nearby mound of dirt. Where the rock used...
Controlled Violence Lunch at Dion's Pizza
Eric, a retired Army Ranger, who patrolled streets of Iraq in full battle gear, has told me violence is a way of life and controlling or neutralizing it was once his mission as well as his livelihood. When I talk with a man who has had to take...
LaFonda Hotel Part of the Santa Fe History
The LaFonda Hotel has been a fixture in Santa Fe going back decades. The current hotel was built in 1922 on a downtown site where the first Santa Fe hotel was built in 1607 when Spaniards came to town. It is on the register of the Historic Hotels of...
New Mexico Rail Runner Rapid transit in a horse and buggy state
The New Mexico Rail Runner is New Mexico's foray into mass transit in a state that is rural except for four larger cities along the Rio Grande north to south. In 2018, our entire population was just over two million. The impetus was to spend federal...
Out with the Old/In with the New At the " River of Lights "
Part of the Albuquerque Botanical Gardens " River of Lights " package, for $110.00 per couple, is cleansing souls. After the train ride, those who participate, write bad memories from the past year on a piece of paper, fold the paper, and toss it...
3 On A Match Albuquerque Sunport
This group belongs in cabarets in Berlin, London, Paris, after World War 2, without the smoke, SS Officers and floozies. A first response to new music is often to discount or find faults with it because it is new. Another response is to...
Santa Plays his Sax Holiday Stroll, Albuquerque Old Town -2018
Sax Rats is our saxophone quartet - two alto saxes, a tenor sax, and a baritone sax. It is cold this evening as we load into Dan's van, drive down, set up, begin our first music set at the Holiday Stroll in Old Town, Albuquerque. " In college, "...
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