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Breaking Bad Albuquerque's Claim to Fame
Los Angeles has Forest Lawn and Beverly Hills. Memphis has Graceland. Florida has Cape Canaveral. Texas has the Alamo. Albuquerque has the hit television series " Breaking Bad. " This television show is a crime drama and crime and Albuquerque have...
New Mexico Vistas Albuquerque Museum
The Albuquerque Museum is in Albuquerque's Old Town. Old Town is not far from the Rio Grande river and train tracks that spurred growth in western communities in the nineteen hundreds. Old Town is a part of Albuquerque that is older than the city itself,...
Buzzards waiting for death isn't always a long wait
This morning the clean up crew is roosting in a tall dead tree across the bridge that gets you over Percha Creek into Hillsboro, New Mexico. This tree is dead as their breakfast and gives the buzzards a good place to open their wings and catch the sun's...
Hillsboro General Store The old west in a new century
The General Store and Cafe is not really a General Store. You can't buy barbed wire, bullets, hard candies scooped from an oak barrel. There aren't bags of flour to load into wagons, fishing hooks or Doctor Edward's best elixer to cure aches and pains in...
Treasure Hunt Hillsboro, New Mexico
Hillsboro is a hard scrawny town on the way from Truth or Consequences, where I used to live, to Silver City, New Mexico.. In the old days Hillsboro was a gold and silver mining collage of wood shacks, shovels, dynamite, barbed wire but today it has lost...
Word to the Wise fortune cookies
Some got advice from Oprah and when she retired they lost their advice fountainhead. Some find guidance at church. Cable channels are replete with soothsayers, doom mongers, all around screwy prophets who have kind words out of one side of their mouth...
4925 Idlewilde S.E. rental business
This 800 square foot frame stucco two bedroom one bath single car garage house has been in the family since the fifties. It has been a residence for dozens of renters, some good, some bad. Through time, much property maintenance was done that is...
Where’s the Cops? Chocolate glazed or Boston Cream?
There is an old joke about having to look for a cop at the doughnut shop when you need one. I haven't seen a man or woman in blue at my Albuquerque Donut stop, but I haven't needed one either. While Donut Mart is not Wal Mart, they do have...
Texas Turkey’s Lunch in Palo Duro Canyon
Driving back roads through flat dry West Texas prairie, one comes upon mule deer grazing among mesquite trees. They look at you as you pass with dark intense eyes. They are always aware, can turn quick and be gone even quicker, leap over barbed wire...
Fishing/Palo Duro Canyon Trout fishing in March
Palo Duro Canyon cuts through Texas like a big spoon in a tub of ice cream at a church social. We load three poles, a tackle box, frozen corn, rubber worms and salmon eggs, and navigate three locked gates to get down to the prime fishing holes. There are...
Big Tex/ Canyon,Texas As big a guy as they come
In Canyon, Texas there is a relic from the fifties that overlooks the freeway that plows through town. This giant statue of a cowboy is known as "Big Tex". He has been here as long as townspeople can remember and civic leaders have started a fundraising...
Lady Buffs/ West Texas A&M Regional Championships
Buffalo's are not small, short, slender animals. In fact, they have a reputation for hardiness, tolerance for adverse circumstances, and supported Indian's on the Great Plains for hundreds of years. The Lady Buff''s of Texas A&M College in...
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