People
Walkaholics Not authorized by AA
It turns out to be a good hike. There are less than 10 walkers this morning but numbers will grow to over twenty five as tourist season picks up. One of the most difficult tasks is learning names of the group so I make myself crutches. Dean has a...
Crazy Canuck’s Beach Bar One of many watering holes
I'm not a Canadian but this bar sounds crazy and who wants to sit in a bar that isn't crazy? As spirits flow, you want to be carried along in a stream of conviviality, experience bursts of laughter, hear jokes you never heard before that are really...
First Impressions San Pedro Town, Belize
Whether it is Saint Thomas, Saint John, Dominica, Grenada, Bequia, Boca Del Toros, or San Pedro Town you see Caribbean similarities immediately. Ambergris Caye is off the coast of Belize and runs along the second biggest barrier reef in the world with...
Dancing Girl On the Plaza
Music is accessible. You can be wearing a tuxedo and tails, coveralls, golf shorts, uniforms, diapers, or your birthday suit, and it sounds great. You can be wearing a wedding dress, a pearl necklace, spiked heels, a flimsy cocktail party dress, cowboy...
McDonalds Washing Windows
Sitting in this Albuquerque McDonalds feels like sitting inside the Diner in the 1942 Edward Hopper oil painting - " Nighthawks. " Early this morning, Javier is busy cleaning this fast food franchise made of glass, plastic, tile, low voltage lights,...
Roswell UFO Museum Little Green Men
When local rancher Mack Brazell found extraterrestrial debris on his ranch and reported it to the local Sheriff a Pandora's box was opened. The local Sheriff called the local Air Force Base and a whirlwind of misinformation, disinformation, cover up was...
Water Wheel Observation Point- Palo Duro Canyon
There used to be a small stream here that meandered down the hill and went over the edge of the canyon and fell into a deep dark hole below us. The land's owner built himself an observation platform, erected a light pole, and built a water wheel that...
Sandell Drive In Clarendon, Texas
Drive In movies, in the fifties, were a popular family outing and also a place where teens, borrowing the family car, could get away and explore birds and bees in the back seat of station wagons. The latest Hollywood movies were projected onto huge...
Goodnight Home Snapshots
Snapshots are all I have of the inside of the Goodnight home, taking us back to the late eighteen hundreds and early 1900's. Mr. Goodnight died just after the stock market crash of 1929 and he, at 93, was ready to move on, feeling he had lived in the...
Charles Goodnight J and A Cattle Ranch
Not far from Clarendon, Texas is the homestead and ranch headquarters of Charles Goodnight, a pioneer Texas rancher. In the mid to late 1800's, he controlled a ranch of over a million acres, had 180 cowboys on his payroll, and was an industry by himself....
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...
SEARCH THE SITE
TRANSLATE THIS PAGE
