A Desert Hike, a General Store and a Biker Bar
Quick Note: I wrote this two years ago but, for one reason or another, never got around to posting it. With the tragedy that happened...
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- Jul 27
- 4 min
Junior Birdmen - Biplane Flights
I learned the Junior Birdmen song in junior high, seems appropriate enough. Up in the air Junior Birdmen Up in the air upside down Up in...
- Jan 10
- 6 min
A Very Gilmore Christmas
Warner Brothers Studio Tour with Gilmore Girls, Harry Potter and DC Superheroes.
- Nov 27, 2022
- 4 min
Imagine a Magical Garden
Imagine a magical garden where you are surrounded by plants below and beside, with trees stretching above your head. Imagine too that,...
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Small Town With the World's Biggest Things
We’re all familiar with them and might even have one in a town nearby. They’re those places laying claim to having the largest frying...
- Aug 16, 2022
- 4 min
Dinny, Mr. Rex and Rattlesnakes, Oh My!
Rawr!!!! It really wasn’t planned but it couldn’t have been more fitting. Darling Daughter and I were driving her and fiance’s car back...
- Jun 10, 2022
- 4 min
Standing in the Center of the Universe
It sounds like one of those jokes that starts with, a rabbi, a priest and a minister walk into a bar. There I was, standing in the Center...
- Apr 8, 2022
- 2 min
Moments of Joy, Boulder Falls
The Eiffel Tower, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate Bridge, all bring wonder and joy. But not everything has to be big, or the first thing on...
- Apr 6, 2022
- 3 min
What Makes the Black Canyon, Black
Black Canyon of the Gunnison isn’t the deepest US National Park canyon and it’s certainly not the widest. In fact, the very opposite is...
- Mar 21, 2022
- 5 min
The Magnolia Experience
I like Chip and Joanna. I’m not a huge fan but I like them just fine. I watched many episodes of their show back when they first hit the...
- Feb 2, 2022
- 7 min
San Antonio, David Karesh and the Branch Davidians
I was in San Antonio, Texas, 29 years ago this March, as the Branch Dravidian standoff was entering its third week less than 10 miles...
- Jan 28, 2022
- 3 min
Putt Putt to Pizza Hut
There’s a Pizza Hut located right smack dab in the middle of the Wichita State University campus in Wichita, Kansas. You’ll find it...
- Jan 13, 2022
- 2 min
Look! Up in the Sky! It's the TARS blimp!
(This is one of four stories about the unique sites to be seen along the 37-mile stretch of Highway 90 through the Chihuahuan Desert from...
- Dec 31, 2021
- 3 min
Liz, James and Rock in the Texas Desert
(This is one of four stories about the unique sites to be seen along the 37-mile stretch of Highway 90 through the Chihuahuan Desert from...
- Dec 27, 2021
- 4 min
Prada's Desert Home
(This is one of four stories about the unique sites to be seen along the 37-mile stretch of Highway 90 through the Chihuahuan Desert from...
- Dec 19, 2021
- 5 min
Amana: A Holiday Tradition
It was a tradition. My birthday is early December and as Darling Daughter was growing up our family would take a day trip the first...
- Nov 19, 2021
- 5 min
Beam Me Up Scotty (Capt. Kirk's Conception)
If you’re willing to use a little imagination, make that a lot of imagination, you can beam yourself up in a transporter located at the...
- Oct 31, 2021
- 7 min
My Night in a Ghost Town Bus
A ghost town. An old chili cook-off bus converted to lodging. An historic cemetery. A beer drinking goat who serves as town mayor. A...
- Oct 21, 2021
- 2 min
Marfa's Mysterious Lights
There’s a line in Miranda Lambert’s song, In His Arms, that references the Marfa lights: Is he praying for rain out in West Texas? Is he...
- Oct 11, 2021
- 3 min
Comanche National Museum & Johnny Depp?
Sitting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel room recently I was doing what most of us do when killing time these days, aimlessly scrolling...
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