The Culture and Carlsbad Caverns
No matter how high you fly — or how deep underground — the tectonic clash in our culture appears in the strangest places. . . One of our favorite stops on this grand Western...
Category: Westward Ho!
It’s Hyperalimentation, not Hyperventilation
There in the plexiglass display case, in Mesa Verde National Park are two crude crutches from our stone-age past. We spent yesterday exploring the cliff dwellings of pre-historic Pueblo Indians — they built their...
Remember the Alamo
The version of the Alamo story that I knew prior to visiting the mission still standing in San Antonio, involved a vague idea that some Texans died defending a fort against a Mexican army....
Austin Art Museum Update
I’ve heard from the Executive Director of the Austin Art Museum, Dana Friis-Hansen, who wrote to say she is sending the refund for our entry fees, and apologized quite nicely for the “bad experience”...
Babes on Bourbon Street
Made a quick stop through the Big Easy on the way to Austin. Hit Cafe du Monde for coffee and beignets and then headed to Bourbon Street. Several people warned me about the seamier...
Putting the shag back in shag rugs . . .
Seen around town, Austin, Texas: Keep Austin Weird. Found out what that meant. The quest for cultural enrichment for the Penta-Posse continued with a stop at the Austin Museum of Art. Instead, we found...
Hillary's lavender look
Viewed today along I-81 in Tennessee — giant billboard, stark white lettering on a solid black background: One nation under me — God Welcome to the red-states! A few miles further down the road,...
Westward Ho!
We got up at 0-dark-thirty this morning, put the Penta-Posse in the truck — still in their pajamas . . . and headed West. I am attending a Liberty Fund conference this weekend in...
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