With an ill dog at home, I’ve been renting a car now several weeks in a row. With the mobility of wheels I decided to take a number of afternoon excursions, treating Miami as if a city visited on a roadtrip. Not surprisingly, Miami reveals herself to be a borderlands […]
America has descended into some of the darkest days of its history. It is not due to the bug, but rather the purposes to which the bug was used. Long drives into the unknown clearly evidence two Americas: one we all know and love, and another characterized by unrecognizable states […]
Zeno, the fearless border patrol dog, has been on a mission of encouragement and support to all those we encounter for a year and a half. Meeting many traumatized humans – especially in the tragically mismanaged Northeast – he always brings a smile despite his own infirmities. (Zeno is fast […]
An old prep school friend asked if I’d volunteer to help receive rescue dogs arrive from Puerto Rico in Miami. Of course. She’s a Navy pilot veteran and sometimes flies the big bird 767 herself. She didn’t mention when or for how long I could help, no matter. I got […]
Deserts are a landscape of hardship. Yet as has always been my case, “Lucky for me, I love the Desert Southwest.” [Borderlands USA, p.175] As lovely and pampered and touristed as the coast highways are, I felt relieved to be back on empty border tracks, the narrow two-laners connecting remoteness […]
America is torn. I recently drove the East Coast to get a pulse of the nation recently ravaged by governmental diktats, media distortions, and rioters coddled by a major party. The further north I drove, the darker the journey became, into a northeast traumatized by the virus and disastrous state […]
