Getting Around
Tropic Air Belize City to San Pedro Town
This ride is not smooth, but it isn't bumpy either. Down below us are little green islands sticking their heads above the Caribbean Sea like turtles, fishing boats, and turquoise water. I can almost see the grassy bottom of the sea from the air. We are...
Passport Travel Essential
This passport takes me to 2021, well past end of the world forecasts. Closing in on Belize, an airline steward passes out forms to be completed in ink for Customs and Immigration Officers in Belize City. These days all travelers need a Passport and are...
Window Seat way way up in the sky
This trip the window seat is mine. It is most difficult to be in the middle seat with a window passenger on one side and an aisle passenger on the other. Invariably those seat passengers are overweight, have to use the lavatory, don't speak your...
Belize Bound Unsecurity
Sunday morning the Albuquerque, New Mexico International Sun port is a grocery cart rolling down a hill. Jets jockey to gates as ticket agents fire up their computers, troubleshoot, load passengers and baggage. This time through security there is a...
” 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...
1990 Toyota SunRader Gypsy Tendencies
1990 was one of the last years Toyota made these mini-motor homes. This little baby has a 6 cylinder 3.0 EFI engine, gets sixteen miles per gallon depending on terrain and weather and road conditions. She has air conditioning, a refrigerator that runs on...
Scott’s Compact Car New Wheels
Cars go until they don't go. They are traded when they start to cost more than they are worth. My Prius, an experiment in high tech, is gone. When electronic systems start to malfunction you have to step back and decide how much you like the idea of...
Jesus Saves Socorro, New Mexico
This dark blue Ford Ranger has seen better days. Once, it was new on the lot and a salesman kicked its tires, opened its doors and sweet talked clients into the driver's seat to take a whiff of its new car smell. Windows opened and closed, air...
Roadside Memorial I-25 south from Albuquerque
Automobiles can be terminal. They are speeding metal coffins containing mortal bodies that crumple when hit, collapse when rolled over, compress and crush what is inside them when physics takes charge and momentum meets momentum. Along New Mexico...
Tram talk Going Up
The Sandia Peak Tram has been with us fifty years. According to our tram operator there are 600,000 patrons each year and the only time the tram shuts down is when the wind blows over fifty miles per hour or threatening lightning storms are close. The...
Road Kill I 40 West to Flagstaff
This is what this road trip looks like from behind the wheel. Ahead, there is a long rolling strip of Interstate split into two lanes with shoulders and entrances and exits. There are road signs, overpasses, and vehicles. Always there is sky and...
What is a Tucumcari? Enroute to Texas
Back in Albuquerque two months, the travel itch started at my right big toe and is working its way up to my right kneecap. Life since Matzatlan has meandered and it isn't until a brother's invitation is offered that I have a chance to scratch my latest...
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