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Bryce Canyon National Park: Submission or Serendipity?
By the time we got to Bryce Canyon that Sunday night in July, I was really darn sick. We were also extremely hungry. We had driven pretty hard to try to make it to our place to sleep for the night, and hadn’t time to stop for food. We had driven past a Subway in…
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Pikes Peak: With a Little Help From My Friends
When I was young, fresh out of college, my father and I attempted to drive up Pikes Peak Highway to the summit of this landmark mountain. We didn’t make it all the way. Both of us flat-landers were terrified of the mountain road, which seemed too steep and dangerous, with no guardrails to offer protection.…
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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,…
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CRNT #6: Fledgling Season
It was another day on the Cinco Ranch Nature Trail, trying to get some exercise for myself and the dogs. My mission for the day was to check on a geocache I had hidden out there on one of my recent forays, since the last seeker was unable to find it. After checking on it,…