More photos from San Felipe >> The purpose of this journey of ours is to exploreew places and makeew friends with people from all over. Our recent trip to the baja served both of these purposes perfectly. Sharon wanted to visit an old friend of hers, Liza in San...
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Palms Springs area, California: The heat is on!
Well it seemed to be hotter here than in Phoenix, but that may be just because summer is closing in. It was hovering around 100-105 range under clear skies for the entire time we spent there. Which sounds really hot, which it was, but it was bareable compared to the...
Ehrenberg, Arizona: Another Desert Oasis.
When we crested over the hill we saw the small town of Eherenberg sitting in a valley of green along side a beautiful clear river surrounded by the dry, rugged landscape of the Sonoran Desert. We were so happy to see green and water, the desert has started taking tis...
Scottsdale, Arizona: Second stop on the “tour” 🙂
Our first outing to Scottsdale was to scout out the Mandala Tearoom which was to serve as our venue for the upcoming One Shoe Diaries exhibition. It was a great little tearoom/cafe that served an organic vegan menu selection so Sharon was in heaven. It was also had...
East Valley of Phoenix, Arizona: A sea of brown, beige, sand, toupe, adobe…etc.
More photos from Arizona >> The second we got into our Destination of Mesa we were greeted with unwelcomeness. It could have been our older motorhome (1998) or the puggles, or the fact were under 55 years old, or all of the above. Whichever it was it wasot right. The...
Las Cruces, New Mexico: Everyone in the desert is running from something.
More photos from Las Cruces >> Where to begin? I guess from the first arrival into the Coachlight Bob’s Inn and RV Park. Upon first site we were a littleervous to say the lest. It looked like a glorified truck stop with a lot of transient people staying there. Not a...
Balmorhea, Texas: A desert oasis.
More pics from Balmorhea, TX >> Driving from San Antonio we seemed to be passing into another world, the desert. Upon pulling into the tiny west Texas town of Balmorhea we were taken back a bit. It seemed like aice place, small town feel but a little on the...
San Antonio, Texas: Remember the Alamo!
We didot actually stay in San Antonio but rather 30 miles or so west of it, at Medina Lake set deep in Texas Hill Country. This was our first true taste of being out west. Bandera a small townearby hails itself as “the Cowboy Capital of the World”. We were...
Austin, Texas: So many pubs, so little time
More photos from Austin >> Arriving at the road leading to McKinney Falls State Park , Sharon and I witnessed something awful. We saw a pit pull kill a small dog on the side of the road in a matter of seconds. We saw a guy break them up but we really couldot tell what...
Shiner, Texas: Where there’llever be a drought.
More photos from Shiner and Columbus, TX >> We visited the Spoetzl Brewery that produces the Shiner Beer lineamed after the town it is headquartered in. Oddly enough the Spoetzel Brewery brews in the German Tradition of beer making because...come to find out this Hill...