Old Ones Dream

Big Bend Ranch State Park

If you suffer from sunlight deprivation in January and February but your Social Anxiety Disorder makes you less than likely to head out to crowded sunnier climes such as Florida, Arizona or the gold coasts of Mexico - then I've got a deal for you. Read more →

The Best I Ever Had: Morning Coffee

February 16, 2013 in the afternoon I set up camp at Papalotito Colorado, an open hilltop with a fire ring and sun shade and a view of La Mota Mountain (E 5000'+). All of my gear was miraculously present and accounted for including plenty of good dry mesquite wood compliments... Read more →

Spring

The sky is shutting down with sand toward Marfa Visibility less than a mile now in this 30 mile land It was sunny today and seventy plus But a desert storm is blowing in It will be forty plus winds after mid-night and snow before sunup It is February trans... Read more →

The Morning After

I took the Wednesday morning Sunset Limited west from New Orleans and it was sold out to a bunch of very subdued apres Mardi Gras folk. My assigned seat mate was Romero from Mexico city who visited very cordially for a while. He had been up all night for one... Read more →

Number 19 - Breakfast in Ahtlantah

The train to and from New Orleans to and from New York City the Crescent Limited Number 19 stops along the way and takes on passengers. Yesterday it took on me and I thought she would go Clackalackaclackalackalackalackalack But instead she just rock and roll Pickens Clemson Toccoa Gainesville Breakfast... Read more →

The Boys and the Band

The rest is history. Close encounters with soon to be stars. Read more →

The Best I Ever Had: Shrimp and Grits

Conventional wisdom would tell me not to order shrimp and grits on the high desert of the Big Bend. Conventional wisdom would have caused me to miss "the best I ever had". Read more →