Those of us limited to the English language have this word, love, which gets used for loving everything from ourselves to another person, to our families, to our dogs and cats and horses, to our cars and other material things, to the essence of nature itself. And then there’s the religious dimension expressed in various
She walks through the room where I am working and says, “I just wrote a piece about you.” I got sidetracked and told her a story about hearing the pseudonyms of David Dennison and Peggy Peterson for Donald Trump and an alleged paternity case. As a young kid my parents shared cartoon characters named Denny
Summarizing 5 weeks and 4,200 miles without too many details and yet enough to perhaps be interesting or tempting to other campers, travelers, and road trippers is a challenging self-assignment. A log of departures, destinations, and mileage appears at the bottom of this piece. The original trip was intended to be 6 weeks and include
Santa Fe and Abiquiu was home for us from 1996-2018 and then we returned for another year after a 2 year sojourn in northern California. On this 6 week, 5,000+ mile road trip we were back in CA and now we have been in NM for the past 6 days. Record heat is pushing us
We are actually off the road this July 4, taking a day of R&R at the foot of Ute Mountain near Towaoc, Colorado, about 10 miles south of Cortez, along Route 160. The history of the Ute Indians is an interesting one along with the histories of other Native American tribes and pueblos and the
Four days along the Columbia River, 2nd largest in the United States. Named Columbia by Robert Gray, the first to sail across the bar and into the river in 1792. The Mississippi River – 593,000 cubic feet per second. The St. Lawrence River – 348,000 cubic feet per second. … The Columbia River -265,000 cubic
