I went to the opening of a main exhibition at the The Bass, one of Miami Beach’s premier art institutions. To be honest, contemporary art doesn’t interest me like it used to. But the people watching is enticing. Miami has become one of the world’s prime art destinations. It started […]
The Fort Union Ranch has been in the same family’s hands for a century and a half. The Mountain Branch of the Santa Fe Trail – whose ruts can be easily seen from State Rt 161 – crosses the ranch. At the ranch’s center can be found the Fort Union […]
The return trip after burying the last of my mother’s ashes at the Fort Union Ranch in New Mexico last year was a hoot. My old college roommate and friend John Arbab hitched a ride with me, as we drove the entirety of the Santa Fe Trail, from Santa Fe […]
My last southern border trip was with Zeno, his swan song adventure out west while he was dying of mast cell cancer. Here, a year and a half later, I take the southern route once again, returning to the same New Mexican ranch (the destination of Zeno’s first and last […]
