Here we are, returning south from Boston along the nation’s right bank, fleeing from wintery mid-40s over four days in Massachusetts. As we entered North Carolina, the sun broke out and temps jumped to 70s. Back in the lovely South! (For the preceeding road trip north, click here.) [Kindly hover […]
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 […]
Since March, Zeno the fearless border patrol doggie, has been on a mission of encouragement and support to all those we meet. The roadrip that was slated for mid-March, to patrol the entire East Coast with dog happiness, finally took place at the end of September. Zeno turned 15 in […]
Here the journey continues through the foreign country of California, which still looms large in our dreams. “Yes, California is a natural, if well-ordered, paradise. The benign foresight of its people, through individual initiative and their elected representatives, has led to a remarkable preservation of so much natural bounty. Just […]
El Malpais: the badlands of central-west New Mexico offer sharp lava rocks covering a 40-mile valley sided by smooth sandstone bluffs, just east of the Continental Divide. The McCartys Crater poured lava 2,000 to 3,000 years ago, making the valley all but uninhabitable. Sandwiched between Navajo and Acoma reservations, the badlands […]
