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When I fly commercially, I always try to get a window seat so I can look out of the plane at the landscape and wonder about things I see on the ground. I even pick a specific side of the plane I’m on if I know there’s something special along the route that I canContinue reading “It must have been a really BIG bang…”

Like many in the Land of Enchantment, I always assumed that our state’s name was derived from Mexico, the nation to our south. I figured that our state was named after Mexico had been established as a country. I was wrong. Read on. I made that assumption when you consider the pattern that many placesContinue reading “Las Cruces, Andalucia, has a nice ring to it…”

In Las Cruces on the banks of the Rio Grande where the old highway to Deming, Tucson and California crosses the river is La Llorona Park. The river here is shallow and slow even during the summer when water from Elephant Butte reservoir is released for the irrigation needs for farmers. In the lean precipitationContinue reading “And just in time for Halloween when you thought it couldn’t get weirder…”

The Albuquerque Journal carried a story this week about a plan floated by University of New Mexico and New Mexico State University students to establish some kind of traveling trophy to be awarded to the winner of the annual football game between the two rivals. Their idea was to mount a table-top chile roaster onContinue reading “Better than a broken chair???”

The town of Ruidoso had its beginnings around 1868 with the construction of a water powered mill that was first used to cut timber, then later used to grind grain produced by farmers in the area. It became the hub of activity in Ruidoso in the late 1800s, attracting such visitors such as Billy theContinue reading ““More bolts than wood…””

As I’ve done many times in the past, I did a presentation to a group of elementary school students last week about hot air ballooning. I usually did a demonstration with my balloon on the school playground, but since I no longer have a balloon and stopped flying about four years ago, this presentation wasContinue reading “Well, I never thought of it that way…”

This blog started off in my mind to determine if there were any cobblestone streets in New Mexico like the ones we encountered on our recent trip to San Miguel, Mexico, where virtually all streets in the historic downtown area are paved in rounded rocks. I was fairly certain that we’d find none of thoseContinue reading “From cobblestone streets to the Great Depression…”