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Passport Travel Essential

Passport Travel Essential

    This passport takes me to 2021, well past end of the world forecasts. Closing in on Belize, an airline steward passes out forms to be completed in ink for Customs and Immigration Officers in Belize City. These days all travelers need a Passport and are...

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Window Seat way way up in the sky

Window Seat way way up in the sky

    This trip the window seat is mine. It is most difficult to be in the middle seat with a window passenger on one side and an aisle passenger on the other.  Invariably those seat passengers are overweight, have to use the lavatory, don't speak your...

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Belize Bound Unsecurity

Belize Bound Unsecurity

    Sunday morning the Albuquerque, New Mexico International Sun port is a grocery cart rolling down a hill. Jets jockey to gates as ticket agents fire up their computers, troubleshoot, load passengers and baggage. This time through security there is a...

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Headless Horseman Shopping

Headless Horseman Shopping

    It isn't here yet but Halloween is galloping down the road and the headless horseman will soon be here. New Mexico and Mexico have much in common this time of year as our town celebrates both Halloween and Dia De Los Muertos or " Day of the Dead. " There...

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” The Hammer “ Thrills and Chills

” The Hammer “ Thrills and Chills

    There aren't many rides on this Midway but those that are here give kids a thrill. Precious children are flung through space, turned upside down, and hold on screaming for dear life. This circus has an old time Ferris Wheel. There is the Hammer and the...

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Shooting Pumpkins Country folk Diversions

Shooting Pumpkins Country folk Diversions

    In the distance, ATV's and pickup trucks wait for this year's contest to begin, looking themselves like small tin cans hung on a fence post for target practice. They scurry around after each shot, mark where pumpkins come back to Earth and send back GPS...

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Lichens In Albuquerque Foothills

Lichens In Albuquerque Foothills

    Granite boulders are common along this foothill trail. They are spread like giant marbles dumped out of a cloth bag onto the school playground at recess. Some of the boulders are clumped together, others stand alone in a patch of cactus or in the shade...

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Dancing Girl On the Plaza

Dancing Girl On the Plaza

    Music is accessible. You can be wearing a tuxedo and tails, coveralls, golf shorts, uniforms, diapers, or your birthday suit, and it sounds great. You can be wearing a wedding dress, a pearl necklace, spiked heels, a flimsy cocktail party dress, cowboy...

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Sax Therapy Music Video -Old Town-Albuquerque

Sax Therapy Music Video -Old Town-Albuquerque

    In the saxophone family you have a number of siblings. The shortest boys, who sing the highest, are the C Melody and Soprano saxes. Then you move to Alto and Tenor Saxes who are the most common kids on jazz bandstands. At the back of the parade you have...

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Chadd’s Band Sadies Bar and Grill

Chadd’s Band Sadies Bar and Grill

    Once the sun drops below the Albuquerque city limits, street lights switch on, programmed by computers. The man made lights aren't strong enough to make everything visible so, at night, you move from one pocket of light to another and guess what is down...

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Shopping at  ” 99″ Chinese shopping

Shopping at ” 99″ Chinese shopping

    If it crawls, slides, slips, flips,slithers, climbs, it is not safe. At "99", in Albuquerque, there are selections to fit Chinese tastes. Today, Ruby  has a taste for seafood, and, lifting up a black cloth, she goes after blue and white colored...

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McDonalds Washing Windows

McDonalds Washing Windows

    Sitting in this Albuquerque McDonalds feels like sitting inside the Diner in the 1942 Edward Hopper oil painting - " Nighthawks. " Early this morning, Javier is busy cleaning this fast food franchise made of glass, plastic, tile, low voltage lights,...

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