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Tuesday, 15 Feb 2022 | Photo Gallery
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Monday, 14 Feb 2022 | Views [98]
THE CRUISE IS OVER AND WE HAVE two days to spend in LA. The Super Bowl is out of the question—they’re getting $7000 for a ticket and even parking costs $300. We have reservations at the Dunes Inn for Sunday. It’s an old-style place ... Read more >
Sunday, 13 Feb 2022 | Photo Gallery
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Wednesday, 2 Feb 2022 | Views [127]
THE EVIL THAT MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM; The good is oft interred with their bones; so let it be with Nixon. With apologies to Marc Antony and Wm. Shakespeare, maybe Richard Nixon wasn’t as bad as he seemed back in the 70s. And while I wouldn’... Read more >
Saturday, 29 Jan 2022 | Views [125]
DRIVING IN CALIFORNIA, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT, isn't advised. John wisely used the "jet-lag defense" to convince Chris and Ursula to pick us up for dinner on Friday. Chris knows the way and is used to the high-speeds and California quirks. Besides, he ... Read more >
Friday, 28 Jan 2022 | Views [184]
OR MAYBE WE’RE "THROUGH" WITH AZ. We’ve been coming to the Grand Canyon state, off and on, for 20 years. We have rafted, camped, RV’d, AirBnB’d and bunked in with friends. We’ve visited all the National Parks, Monuments ... Read more >
Friday, 28 Jan 2022 | Photo Gallery
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Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022 | Views [117]
FOLKS WHO KNOW—OR CARE—ABOUT such things consider Sedona to be a spiritual mecca and global metaphysical center. For them the red-orange of the rocks is one of the most neuro-stimulating of colors and the year-round greenery adds a sense ... Read more >
Tuesday, 25 Jan 2022 | Views [118]
COTTONWOOD IS 300 MILES FROM BISBEE, north-by-northwest for you Hitchcock fans. It is a much better deal, AirBnB-wise, than Sedona where we wanted to stay. Officially a mother-in-law suite, “The Miller’s” has a separate bedroom, full ... Read more >
Monday, 24 Jan 2022 | Views [114]
GOOGLE MAPS SAYS THE GRAND CANYON is 94-miles from Cottonwood. According to Gabbi, who relies on roads, it’s a bit over 150. Pas de problemme —no drive is too far for another chance to see one of Nature’s best efforts.
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Friday, 21 Jan 2022 | Views [156]
We passed a guy on a bench once.
He was playing a kazoo partially dressed like a clown and wore ski goggles.
It was summer.
“That would have been you,” you said, smiling.
“If you hadn’t met me.... Read more >
Monday, 17 Jan 2022 | Views [133]
“WARREN’S PLACE” IS A CUTE 1926 CRAFTSMAN house in the Mule Mountains, a mile-high and 25 miles from the Mexican border. When a search for AirBnBs in Sierra Vista came up empty we found this place in the old mining town of Bisbee. The ... Read more >
Saturday, 15 Jan 2022 | Views [127]
TOMBSTONE—THE NAME BRINGS VISIONS of gunfights on dusty streets, saloons with wooden sidewalks, whisky and whores, Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers and a cast of seedy characters from the old West.
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Friday, 14 Jan 2022 | Photo Gallery
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Friday, 7 Jan 2022 | Views [265]
2022 IS GETTING OFF TO A SLOW START. Days are still 24-hours long and there are seven days in a week but we haven’t done much to fill them. The weather has been chilly with more rain than usual and, except for Connie, we’ve all been coughing ... Read more >
Wednesday, 22 Dec 2021 | Views [251]
NIGHTS IN THE SAHARA CAN GET COLD but it hardly prepared us for the weather in Omaha. Even our arrival from Atlanta was in doubt—wind gusts topping 100 mph had been reported all day, tearing off roofs and rolling semi-trucks on the interstate. ... Read more >
Thursday, 16 Dec 2021 | Views [245]
MOSES’ EXODUS FROM EGYPT to the Promised Land took him forty years. We made the trip in 40-hours from Covid test in Cairo to touchdown in Omaha. Along the way Moses received the Ten Commandments. We got the message that we are not as young as we ... Read more >
Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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Saturday, 4 Sep 2021 | Views [181]
WE WILL BE OUT OF TOUCH for the next week or so. We are taking a cruise to Aruba, Curacao and the Dominican Republic on the Carnival Horizon . One of the ways cruise lines remain profitable in spite of the low fares is the amount they charge for extras—... Read more >
Monday, 24 May 2021 | Views [291]
WE'RE BACK FOR ONLY TWO WEEKS AND already are planning our escape. Most people travel to Colorado for the skiing and hiking—we come for our annual proddings and probings. Lest you think we’re masochists, Colorado is where our doctors are—... Read more >
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