It’s so hard these days to gain sustained national notoriety. Trump brags about grabbing pussies. Meh, locker room talk. Some screwed up boy (and they’re always boys) grabs a military grade weapon and takes a baker’s dozen lives. We are shocked and saddened. Then we move on.
Above: four bikers recently arrived in Todos Santos pose for a photo outside of the Hotel California. Mary Anne seems pleased with dessert during our Anniversary dinner at Lon’s at the Hermosa. Arlene, on the left, is my running buddy from our days in Portland. She was in Phoenix
What fun! Our friends Wayne and Jane came to visit for a few days. They’re the folks who sold us the condo a couple of years ago. Besides the pleasure of their company, we learned about a few new things to see. One of those things was the Granite
For people just a little older than I am, the Sixties had to be an absolute gas. You could hop into your VW bug with the stick-on flowers, slip the latest Moby Grape into the old eight track, light up a joint and head to your Sensitivity Training group. There
Primitive tools and a lot of time can yield impressive results. To the Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China and the dry stone fences of the United Kingdom and Ireland, add the O’Odham irrigation canals. The O’Odham flourished for 1400 years in a collection of settlements near
Cabo San Lucas, were Gringos flock to flirt with alcohol poisoning and each other, lies at the southern tip of the Baja. I find it fun for a while, but not for days on end. Not that I’m against Mexicans earning a living. Those all-you-can-drink sightseeing cruises aren’t
Todos Santos (“All Saints”) sits near the Tropic of Cancer on the Baja’s western shore. At one time it was a major sugar cane processing center, but that was over by 1950. Thanks in part to the government paving the highway, the town is today thriving as an agricultural
Paolo Soleri, an Italian born architect, died in Arizona about a decade ago. He came to the States to study under Frank Lloyd Wright who had residences in both Wisconsin and Arizona. Soleri designed and built his home in Paradise Valley, Arizona. He called it Cosanti. It’s an odd