What’s to Eat
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...
Lichens In Albuquerque Foothills
Granite boulders are common along this foothill trail. They are spread like giant marbles dumped out of a cloth bag onto the school playground at recess. Some of the boulders are clumped together, others stand alone in a patch of cactus or in the shade...
Shopping at ” 99″ Chinese shopping
If it crawls, slides, slips, flips,slithers, climbs, it is not safe. At "99", in Albuquerque, there are selections to fit Chinese tastes. Today, Ruby has a taste for seafood, and, lifting up a black cloth, she goes after blue and white colored...
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,...
Crunch Golden Pride Restaurant
Golden Pride in Albuquerque sells fried chicken, Bar- B- Que, burritos, red and green enchiladas, and, of course, a world famous cinnamon roll drowning on a plate in butter and icing. This black vehicle is parked in front of the East Central Route 66...
Fourth of July Celebration at Richard and Maria's
The fourth of July is the official birthday of the United States. The American fight for Independence was hatched in Boston pubs and undertaken by a cadre of locals. Over taxed and under represented was the big beef and secretive plotting led to a...
Owl Cafe Waking up
The Owl Cafe was born in San Antonio, New Mexico, one of many New Mexican towns you zip past on the freeway, not even dots on the state road map. The original cafe doesn't have an owl on its roof and is a fifties style bar and grill with ancient cheap...
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...
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...
Where’s the Cops? Chocolate glazed or Boston Cream?
There is an old joke about having to look for a cop at the doughnut shop when you need one. I haven't seen a man or woman in blue at my Albuquerque Donut stop, but I haven't needed one either. While Donut Mart is not Wal Mart, they do have...
Fishing/Palo Duro Canyon Trout fishing in March
Palo Duro Canyon cuts through Texas like a big spoon in a tub of ice cream at a church social. We load three poles, a tackle box, frozen corn, rubber worms and salmon eggs, and navigate three locked gates to get down to the prime fishing holes. There are...
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