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Dec 27, 20214 min read

Prada's Desert Home

(This is one of four stories about the unique sites to be seen along the 37-mile stretch of Highway 90 through the Chihuahuan Desert from...

Dec 19, 20215 min read

Amana: A Holiday Tradition

It was a tradition. My birthday is early December and as Darling Daughter was growing up our family would take a day trip the first...

Nov 19, 20215 min read

Beam Me Up Scotty (Capt. Kirk's Conception)

If you’re willing to use a little imagination, make that a lot of imagination, you can beam yourself up in a transporter located at the...

Oct 31, 20217 min read

My Night in a Ghost Town Bus

A ghost town. An old chili cook-off bus converted to lodging. An historic cemetery. A beer drinking goat who serves as town mayor. A...

Oct 21, 20212 min read

Marfa's Mysterious Lights

There’s a line in Miranda Lambert’s song, In His Arms, that references the Marfa lights: Is he praying for rain out in West Texas? Is he...

Oct 11, 20213 min read

Comanche National Museum & Johnny Depp?

Sitting in a Tulsa, Oklahoma, hotel room recently I was doing what most of us do when killing time these days, aimlessly scrolling...

Oct 11, 20212 min read

Keeper of the Plains

Rising more than 70 feet above the confluence of the Big and Little Arkansas Rivers in the heart of Wichita, Kansas, is a steel...

Oct 5, 20214 min read

Starry, Starry Night, Immersively

Starry, starry night Paint your palette blue and grey Look out on a summer's day With eyes that know the darkness in my soul Vincent -...

Sep 16, 20213 min read

Working On the Chain Gang

Images of Paul Newman and Cool Hand Luke came to mind as I drove down a short Louisa County Iowa highway recently. More appropriately...

Sep 8, 20216 min read

A Tipi, Iowa Prairie and a Whole Lot of Ants

Close your eyes, well not literally because I want you to keep reading but play along, and imagine you've been transported back 300 years...

Aug 26, 20215 min read

My Beautiful, Beautiful Balloon

When I was in Junior High, that's what they called it before someone dreamed up the term Middle School, my parents loaded me up into the...

Aug 19, 20213 min read

Van Life Here I Come

Well, that title might be overstating it a bit but, I just checked another item off that retirement “to do” list; building a platform in...