As I write this, I’m listening to RadioParadise.com’s music stream on my iPhone while on a moving Amtrak train as I compose and post this entry. I know that technology cannot solve all of the problems we face as a species. I have to admit though, that I think our scientific and technological capabilities, not …
Tomorrow I am leaving Las Cruces and heading up to Roswell, NM. Considering my love of science fiction and interest in space and aliens and conspiracies, it seemed a shame to leave NM without visiting, even though I know it will be cheesy and tourist-y. Still, it should be fun. After I spend a couple …
I need solitude like I need air. That is to say, solitude is necessary for me to be me and to center myself. However, just as breathing is necessary but not enough for a full and productive life, solitude is a basic need, one that I have to create regularly for myself, but in itself, …
There are a number of reasons why I’m leaving Las Cruces, and I’ve shared some of those reasons in a previous post before I had actually made up my mind to go. In the end, my decision was based on a number of factors that include short term financial needs, longer term financial goals, a …
I arrived in New Mexico at high noon yesterday and pulled over and took this picture. Northern New Mexico is very green, lots of cattle ranches, and I must say I was glad to start seeing ridges and mountains in the distance and driving over hills after the flatness that was Kansas. I stopped, briefly, …
Maybe it’s the New Englander in me, but yeah, Kansas is a bit spooky with the flatness thing especially when dark, lightning-strewn clouds are rising out of the southern horizon like some giant solid wall of darkness and the light to the west & north is still quite lovely and full of sunlight. Where I …
A long day of driving – not quite as long as I’d hoped, and not nearly as far as I wanted to get, (I was hoping to make St. Louis, but ups and downs of the Appalachian mountains in a car without a tremendous amount of pickup slowed me down quite a bit. In addition, …