From the “One Should Never Fail To Acknowledge Kindness” file: July 17, 2006 The Coconino County Sheriff’s Office Attn: Officer Woolbright / Dist. 3 No. 34 P.O. Box 39 Flagstaff, AZ 86002-0039 Dear Officer Woolbright, I just wanted to take a moment and thank you for the courtesy you showed in issuing me a warning …
I’m exhausted so I’ll keep this brief, or fail to. Susan and I and the four pups (believed by the kennel caretaker at the Grand Canyon to be border collie mixes) are home in six respective individual pieces. We left the Grand Canyon at 7:45 a.m. and after arrived home 515 miles later (including a …
Having been woefully without internut access since we entered Yellowstone National Park on July 5, on the way out of Arches National Park outside of Moab, Utah, this morning I’d been planning on catching you all up about the stuff we saw (like this) and did with the distant hope that I’d be able to …
My foresight’s always been in need of some serious prescription lensification. Never has this been more clearly demonstrated than with our decision on the way to our July 3 destination of Susan’s grandma’s house in Troy, Mont., to venture up into Canada just because it was so dang close. So up US Highway 95 we …
I’ll spare you the blow by blow backcountry road route Susan and I were on today other than to tell you that our explorations through gorgeous canyons and valleys and high plains and winding two-lanes from Baker City to Spokane put the “seen” in scenic. Instead I’ll just leave you with this handsome devil of …
So Susan and I traversed the remarkably scenic Oregeon Byway along the 126 from Redmond to about 16 miles beyond Prairie City and then the 26 to historic Baker City. Along the way we passed this barn and had to pull a u-turn and come back to photograph it: [large version here] Certainly in the …
Well, we made it. Our flight to Redding was delayed and we didn’t get off the ground until more than an hour later, but we touched down and cabbed over to the nearest motel and this morning we were up and away in our rental with our first stop to be the unfinished business of …