Category Archives: USA 2008
Seventy-Four
Roswell, NM This adventure gets weirder and weirder the further away from the starting point I get. Today I spent most of a gorgeous sunny day 800 feet below the surface at a constant temperature of fifty-nine degrees and ninety … Continue reading
Seventy-Three
Carlsbad, NM Here I sit in this half a horse town, drinking Shiner Bock and watching the final game at Yankee Stadium shindig thinking wistfully of Texas. All New Mexico has done so far is slow me down. I am … Continue reading
Sixty-Four
Philadelphia, PA That was a five-hundred dollar rainout. The best part of the entire evening was the realization that even though every being in the five boroughs knew from two o’clock in the afternoon that there would be no baseball … Continue reading
Sixty-Three
New York, NY Seven years ago today our nation went to war. We’re still at war though sometimes it’s difficult to tell. I think we’re winning though sometimes that’s difficult to tell. We’ve made mistakes. We’ve corrected some and left … Continue reading
Sixty-Two
Boston, MA There’s a teapot made to commemorate the repeal of the Stamp Act that I have seen in a plethora of books, TV shows and documentaries on the American Revolution. It’s pretty nifty to walk into a room and … Continue reading