Scott’s Adventures in New Mexico
Snail and Tortoise sticking your head out
Back in yesteryear, a school assignment, in English, was to compare and contrast apples and oranges. The assignment was dropped on us to develop critical thinking, stimulate observation, and bring order to our primitive minds. The assignment proved that...
Riverbend Hot Springs Hot Soak
In the downtown historical district of Truth or Consequences, hot springs bubble to the surface. In old days dusty cowboys would hang their chaps on mesquite branches and swap stories with Indians who hung their moccasins on adjacent branches to look...
Found Key Rio Rancho Golf Course
We return our golf cart. The cart jockey is a tiny man wearing shorts, tennis shoes with big socks, a blue faded ball cap. There are four carts ahead of ours that he has to clean, toss trash, wipe down seats, check gas, and inspect. We use golf carts...
Shipping Container Square Dance Back in Albuquerque
I-40 runs through Albuquerque's midsection like a Mexican leather belt with a big rodeo buckle. At I-40 and Carlisle in Albuquerque is a new " Green Jeans" shopping center built using shipping containers, Albuquerque's new building material craze. While...
Soaking Hot baths on the Rio Grande
Things get new names. Route 66 becomes Interstate-40. Bruce Jenner becomes Caitlyn Jenner. British Honduras becomes Belize. Climate warming becomes a Religion. Kentucky Fried Chicken becomes KFC. Before Truth or Consequences adopted its new name in the...
Oil Country in the oil patch
Leaving Roswell for Midland, Texas you start seeing oilfield pump jacks right off the highway. There are no trees or bushes to hide them so they can't be missed, look like grasshoppers, and have been shot with twenty two's more than once. Some of the...
Clines Corners Route 66 since 1934
Clines Corners is a travel center on I- 40 east of Moriarty, New Mexico. It opened in 1934 at the intersection of what was then Route 66 and highway 85 going north to Santa Fe or highway 85 south to Roswell. 1934 was long ago, at the end of the Great...
Deja Vu back in time for a storm
Yogi might not have said ", It's deja vu all over, " but, if he didn't, he should have. The day after my trip to warmer climates is in bed, Mother Nature spreads her winter blanket and dumps snow on Albuquerque. In the foothills, east of Albuquerque,...
Headless Horseman Shopping
It isn't here yet but Halloween is galloping down the road and the headless horseman will soon be here. New Mexico and Mexico have much in common this time of year as our town celebrates both Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos or " Day of the Dead. " There...
” The Hammer “ Thrills and Chills
There aren't many rides on this Midway but those that are here give kids a thrill. Precious children are flung through space, turned upside down, and hold on screaming for dear life. This circus has an old time Ferris Wheel. There is the Hammer and the...
Shooting Pumpkins Country folk Diversions
In the distance, ATV's and pickup trucks wait for this year's contest to begin, looking themselves like small tin cans hung on a fence post for target practice. They scurry around after each shot, mark where pumpkins come back to Earth and send back GPS...
Lichens In Albuquerque Foothills
Granite boulders are common along this foothill trail. They are spread like giant marbles dumped out of a cloth bag onto the school playground at recess. Some of the boulders are clumped together, others stand alone in a patch of cactus or in the shade...
SEARCH THE SITE
TRANSLATE THIS PAGE
