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Dominican Republic Getting ready for Santo Domingo
Trips start with me saying the name of a country three times while hopping up and down on my left foot, twice. There are 195 countries in the world, according to Wikipedia. I can't see them all, in this lifetime, so I usually choose countries to visit...
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...
Blues Jam Girls Night Out
Girls like to sing the blues too. Their blues are mostly about guys that don't leave quick enough or stay long enough, guys who can't make up their minds and stick with what they finally decide on, guys who drink too much or not enough, guys who are...
Kaktus Kat All Stars- Videos Blues Jam at the Kaktus Brewing Company- Bernalillo
Larry preaches on the Hammond organ. https://youtu.be/kexHvK5hNKI
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...
Chadd plays a solo Chadd James on Flute
Teaching and playing are different disciplines. Some musicians play. Some musicians teach. Some musicians both play and teach. There are lots of filters that can keep a teacher's message from reaching his students gas tank. If Chadd could just run a USB...
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...
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