Spirit Talks
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...
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...
Breaking Bad Albuquerque's Claim to Fame
Los Angeles has Forest Lawn and Beverly Hills. Memphis has Graceland. Florida has Cape Canaveral. Texas has the Alamo. Albuquerque has the hit television series " Breaking Bad. " This television show is a crime drama and crime and Albuquerque have...
Buzzards waiting for death isn't always a long wait
This morning the clean up crew is roosting in a tall dead tree across the bridge that gets you over Percha Creek into Hillsboro, New Mexico. This tree is dead as their breakfast and gives the buzzards a good place to open their wings and catch the sun's...
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...
Word to the Wise fortune cookies
Some got advice from Oprah and when she retired they lost their advice fountainhead. Some find guidance at church. Cable channels are replete with soothsayers, doom mongers, all around screwy prophets who have kind words out of one side of their mouth...
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...
Mexico Mural On the way to the beach
On the way to the beach at the Hotel Playa de Mazatlan, there is a mural painted on a hotel wall by some unknown Mazatlan artist. The characters are easy to recognize. There are homages to traditional lifestyles when women wore non-revealing clothes and...
Footprints/Hotel Playa Beach Side by side/Hotel Playa
This is a conundrum. At first glance these are footprints on the beach. At a second glance you discover the footprints are not pointing the same direction. At first thought, I wonder how this happened? Maybe a man with a peg leg twists his right...
Sunrise/Sunset in Mazatlan Following the sun
Some of the grandest moments on a trip to the ocean are when you wake up and when you go to bed. First thing in the morning the sun pushes itself up onto its throne and has its cleaning staff sweep away darkness with stiff brushed brooms. Last thing...
I wuz Here On the beach at Stone Island
One of the first things I come across on this Stone Island beach is a handwritten message scratched in the sand, still hours away from being erased, by the incoming tides. It brings up an old question - "If no one hears a tree falling in the forest, does...
Polo and Juanito Friends
As our tour boat moves slowly through the water, paralleling Stone Island, we see mangroves form a wall to our east. We leave the marina and head north past large shrimp boats, tuna ships with miles of net piled on their decks, one of the largest fish...
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