Trip: The World Part 4
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USA | Saturday, 29 Jan 2022 | Views [194]
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 >
USA | Friday, 28 Jan 2022 | Views [236]
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 >
USA | Friday, 28 Jan 2022 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Wednesday, 26 Jan 2022 | Views [167]
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 >
USA | Tuesday, 25 Jan 2022 | Views [169]
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 >
USA | Monday, 24 Jan 2022 | Views [173]
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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USA | Friday, 21 Jan 2022 | Views [213]
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 >
USA | Monday, 17 Jan 2022 | Views [180]
“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 >
USA | Saturday, 15 Jan 2022 | Views [176]
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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USA | Friday, 14 Jan 2022 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Friday, 7 Jan 2022 | Views [344]
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 >
USA | Wednesday, 22 Dec 2021 | Views [318]
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 >
USA | Thursday, 16 Dec 2021 | Views [309]
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 >
USA | Wednesday, 15 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Saturday, 11 Dec 2021 | Views [315]
THIS SECTION OF THE SAHARA is called the Great Sand Sea. It is so imposing that Camyses, a Persian king of the 6th century BCE, had his army allegedly wiped out by a sandstorm on their march to Siwah. Undeterred, our driver Sarraj zipped our 4X4 around ... Read more >
EGYPT | Friday, 10 Dec 2021 | Views [226]
MOHASSEN IS ALREADY MAKING US CRAZY. He insists on walking us across the street like a wayward Boy Scout and thinks us incapable of buying a Diet Pepsi without his help. But most annoying, he doesn’t speak to Connie—won’t even look ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thursday, 9 Dec 2021 | Views [248]
I CAN STILL FEEL THE GRIT ON MY TEETH. I just hope my facemask is more effective with Covid bugs than with Sahara dust. We are at Siwa Shali Resort after a long, long drive from Giza with our driver Ragab and Mohassen, the guide. By unspoken agreement ... Read more >
EGYPT | Thursday, 9 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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EGYPT | Tuesday, 7 Dec 2021 | Views [209]
THE PYRAMIDS OF GIZA are the only members of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World that remain. Despite the recurring tabloid stories the pyramids were not built by Aliens! According to Herodotus the Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) took one hundred thousand ... Read more >
EGYPT | Monday, 6 Dec 2021 | Photo Gallery
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