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Americans in Mazatlan Green is most everyone's favorite color
In the morning, before ten, the beaches are empty except for romantics, beachcombers, and elderly walking their dogs. Around this place, people stay up late, dance into the late hours, have a few too many drinks, keep everyone at the hotel awake as they...
Mazatlan, Mexico Gold Coast
The Mazatlan geography is flat and vegetation hugs the ground. The predominant building material in town is cement and tile is used prolifically because it is easy to wash, mop, clean, and maintain. Around us this afternoon are T-shirts aplenty...
Surprise Arizona at Sunset Dusk
At dusk, clouds congregate on the horizon and cars exit Highway 303 at Bell Rd. to go to Surprise, Arizona. It is quitting time for those who still have a job to go too. In Surprise, brother Alan and I are staying at the Happy Trails Resort but it could...
In the Air to Mexico Bright and early
Interstate 10 from Surprise to the Phoenix airport is slowed to six miles per hour at seven in the morning. Our clock is ticking and our plane departure time is absolute. Alan and I exit the freeway and head south to Buckhorn Avenue at 51st street, then...
Roy Rogers- Dale Evans/Chuckwagon Restaurant Cowboy culture
Surprise, Arizona didn't start where it is today. Back in the day there wasn't much here but tumbleweeds, cactus, rugged mountains, ranches, farms, a few dirt roads and lots of dreams. The Happy Trails Resort was once nothing but a set of plans for...
Oranges, Saquaro and Ducks Resort accoutrements
There is, at some point, a line whereby good taste moves into bad. There are value meters operating in everyone's head at any given time with rating needles moving from one to ten, good to bad, up or down simultaneously within many categories. The Happy...
Steins, Arizona Murder Pulling off the freeway
I-10 takes you to Los Angeles if you stay on it all the way. Out of Wilcox, Arizona the Interstate takes you along a steadily winding uphill road that goes from long flat expanses to foothills and into rugged mountains. Several miles before you get to...
White Tank Mountain Reserve, Arizona protected nature
Outside the Happy Trails Resort, to the southwest, is a nature preserve named the White Tank Mountains. Whereas Surprise is a continuation of development, an encroachment upon the desert, the White Tank Mountains are resolutely clinging to...
Golf Ball Man/Happy Trails Resort Ushering in a New Year (2015) at an Arizona RV Resort
Golf and sunshine walk hand in hand in Arizona in 2015 like a retired couple on a perpetual honeymoon. The Happy Trails RV Resort surrounds a golf course and its golf holes wind through the development like a snake doing a break dance. The greens...
California Soul Records Looking for a shirt
Victoria Gardens is a Rancho Cucamonga mall, one of many in the Los Angeles area where shopping ranks high on people's to do lists. The day before Christmas, late afternoon, crowds are thinning. By now, most have their shopping complete and are winding...
L.A. Car Repairs Check maintenance light blues
Your chariot has to be tuned up to keep you in the Los Angeles race. You aren't going to get anywhere in this L.A. burg without a good set of wheels, a team of rested and well fed horses, and enough time to get where you are going through a maze of...
California Shopping Mall Ontario, California
The shopping mall is not only a metaphor for the Christmas season, but a melody. Jingle bells ring from inside closed stores as a security pickup patrols and deliveries are made to the back door. Stores open at ten in the morning and stay open till ten...
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