Sports & Recreation
Crab Races Number 16 Wins
On Tuesday nights, at 6:30 pm, featured entertainment at Crazy Canuck's is crab races. The races are a fundraiser for local schools and charitable groups and give locals and visitors another reason to drink, dance, socialize, relax. Number 57 is halfway...
Captain Shark’s Going Fishing
The ocean is a grocery store. At the end of piers, the tips of jutting land, on bridges or banks, in small boats and large, men shop for dinner. Early today three men are casting from the end of a pier at sunrise. They have been up all night and one...
Martial Arts Morning Lesson 101
Martial arts has moved forward since Bruce Lee dazzled with new fighting styles and choreographed movie fight scenes that are classics. Now, real fighting happens on cable TV and the ancient " Friday night at the fights" has been trounced by MMA cage...
Walkaholics Not authorized by AA
It turns out to be a good hike. There are less than 10 walkers this morning but numbers will grow to over twenty five as tourist season picks up. One of the most difficult tasks is learning names of the group so I make myself crutches. Dean has a...
Crazy Canuck’s Beach Bar One of many watering holes
I'm not a Canadian but this bar sounds crazy and who wants to sit in a bar that isn't crazy? As spirits flow, you want to be carried along in a stream of conviviality, experience bursts of laughter, hear jokes you never heard before that are really...
” 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...
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...
Roswell Football New Mexico Military Institute
Saturday night football has pulled into the station. Leaves are turning, temps dip into the forties at night, football practice consumes players, and especially coaches. This Saturdays game matches the Arizona Western Matadors and the New Mexico Military...
1990 Toyota SunRader Gypsy Tendencies
1990 was one of the last years Toyota made these mini-motor homes. This little baby has a 6 cylinder 3.0 EFI engine, gets sixteen miles per gallon depending on terrain and weather and road conditions. She has air conditioning, a refrigerator that runs on...
Tram talk Going Up
The Sandia Peak Tram has been with us fifty years. According to our tram operator there are 600,000 patrons each year and the only time the tram shuts down is when the wind blows over fifty miles per hour or threatening lightning storms are close. The...
Cochiti Golf Close to Golfer's Paradise
In all four corners of our state, as well as the middle, we have sovereign Indian nations who have land,an ancient culture, designer golf courses, hotels, and casinos. The Pueblo of Cochiti is a thirty minute drive from Albuquerque along I- 25 to...
Rock Climbing Family Outing
This Memorial Day weekend boatloads of city folk are out and about. On a usual hike up the Embudo Canyon trail in the Sandia Mountains Alex the architect and I encounter only a few bipeds. Today, two parking lots are full of cars and dogs scamper across...
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