Monthly Archives: December 2013

Elephant Butte VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL Bad news first? ATVs (non-licensed vehicles) are not allowed to play in the huge near-abandoned sand pit known as Elephant Butte Lake State Park. The next-to-the-last picture in the series above might give … Continue reading →

Remember these things? My parents always had one and the story was always the same. The weak link, usually the phono turntable, would fail after a year or two. If you hauled the whole mess to a repair shop, you … Continue reading →

One of the less-admitted aspects of getting information in the internet is that almost nothing from that source is unbiased. There are homers and haters and everything in-between and many of the people providing assistance—technical or emotional—have a vested interest … Continue reading →

My wife is a big fan or horoscopes, particularly Rob Brezsny’s column, “Free Will Astrology.” Whenever I trip over a free magazine that has his column, I bring it home for her. Because I’m a habitual reader, I usually look … Continue reading →

We’ve been camped in the vicinity of the world’s fastest vanishing lake, Elephant Butte Lake, near Truth or Consequences, NM, since last Wednesday. It’s hard to comprehend the level of drought this state has experienced in the last twenty years, … Continue reading →

A good bit of my career was spent in Customer/Technical Service. For all of that, I always tried to imagine myself on the other side of the phone, even when the other side of the phone was attached to an … Continue reading →

We’re mobile, sort of, again. I’m writing this from Campsite 66 at Elephant Butte State Park about 200 miles south of Albuquerque.  As you can see, at left, the view from our “home” is pretty spectacular. We got here about … Continue reading →

New Mexico is an amazing place. It’s one of the least educated, poorest, most diverse, least economically equitable states in the US and I have spent the last week going from one insane situation to another. The local Volkswagen dealers … Continue reading →

When I was 19, I owned a little Opel station wagon. That was 46 years ago, so I don’t remember much about that little wagon, except that it was my first real car. It could have been anything from 1958-1965. … Continue reading →