Blast to the Past
New Mexico Vistas Albuquerque Museum
The Albuquerque Museum is in Albuquerque's Old Town. Old Town is not far from the Rio Grande river and train tracks that spurred growth in western communities in the nineteen hundreds. Old Town is a part of Albuquerque that is older than the city itself,...
Hillsboro General Store The old west in a new century
The General Store and Cafe is not really a General Store. You can't buy barbed wire, bullets, hard candies scooped from an oak barrel. There aren't bags of flour to load into wagons, fishing hooks or Doctor Edward's best elixer to cure aches and pains in...
Treasure Hunt Hillsboro, New Mexico
Hillsboro is a hard scrawny town on the way from Truth or Consequences, where I used to live, to Silver City, New Mexico.. In the old days Hillsboro was a gold and silver mining collage of wood shacks, shovels, dynamite, barbed wire but today it has lost...
4925 Idlewilde S.E. rental business
This 800 square foot frame stucco two bedroom one bath single car garage house has been in the family since the fifties. It has been a residence for dozens of renters, some good, some bad. Through time, much property maintenance was done that is...
Big Tex/ Canyon,Texas As big a guy as they come
In Canyon, Texas there is a relic from the fifties that overlooks the freeway that plows through town. This giant statue of a cowboy is known as "Big Tex". He has been here as long as townspeople can remember and civic leaders have started a fundraising...
Cadillac Ranch/Texas Brainstorm
Before you reach Amarillo, following I-40, you look to the right and see a series of Cadillac's stuck in Texas dirt in the middle of an unplowed field. In the old days the Cadillac's used to be natural, like they came from the factory. They had huge...
Zona Historico/Mazatlan Historical district of Mazatlan
There are two city zones that tourists see most in Mazatlan. There is the Zona Dorado where newer hotels congregate and bars and discos service night crowds. The beaches are here as well as ten taxi drivers to every tourist and street vendors...
Jack Kerouac in Mazatlan On the road
Back in the 1950's, after WW2, most people headed home to raise families. Men were tired of shooting bullets and women were tired of making them. Instead of killing humanity the focus became re-populating humanity. An era of big bands was...
Roy Rogers- Dale Evans/Chuckwagon Restaurant Cowboy culture
Surprise, Arizona didn't start where it is today. Back in the day there wasn't much here but tumbleweeds, cactus, rugged mountains, ranches, farms, a few dirt roads and lots of dreams. The Happy Trails Resort was once nothing but a set of plans for...
National Museum, San Jose Jail exhibit
The Costa Rican National Museum is not world winning architecture. It is a renovated Spanish fort, and, for that reason, has little frills. Inside you see thick walls, peer through lookout holes in towers, pass through heavy wooden doors with huge...
San Jose, National Theatre Tour Points of interest
Checklist traveling has advantages. You go to guidebooks, visit sites and attractions, book tours with an English speaking guide, get familiar with places deemed newsworthy by those in the know. You see five to seven points of interest, stop and...
Coffee Sign/Hotel Massini Lobby Lobby of Massini Suites, Montevideo
This coffee is cheap, but not the best. You buy a dollar token at the hotel reception desk, drop the token in the coffee machine's slot, slide your cup in position, choose your poison, push a button, and wait as a small drizzle of coffee fills your...
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