State of Wilderness

Category: Travels

  • A Walk In the Garden of the Gods

    A piece of my heart lives here in this place.  This part identifies with the Native Americans who came to this sacred spot a little over four thousand years ago.  Like a beacon, this place drew me in when I lived near here, prompting me to drive through on my way home from work, to…

  • Colorado Highlights: or, “what state are we in again?”

    That last part of the title is the question my youngest son asked us every few hours for a few days.  At first, we were patient, then we were tolerant, but after a while, we were neither.  This question started to be answered like this: “We’re not having this conversation again”, “we’re done with that”, and…

  • Art Interactive: Cadillac Ranch/Blue Lake Experimental

    For forty years, an audience-interactive art project dreamed up by a San Francisco based art group Ant Farm has been on display in a pasture in Amarillo.  This iconic stop off Route 66 invites people to get out of their cars, walk a bit to the row of rusted out Cadillacs half-rising out of the earth,…

  • Setting Forth: Dallas area Grandfather Caches

    We thought we had a good system.  We thought we had figured things out.  J is an expert packer, and he had a four day weekend to think it through.  When we finally got the Subaru loaded up, though, with the kids, dogs, us, our camping gear, and clothes for the next few weeks arranged…