Thinking about our holiday hotels in the States reminds me of the town of Durango and the Days Inn. With the exception of the peculiar Craig Motel, The Durango Days Inn was by far and away the worst motel in which I’ve ever stayed in all of our trips to the US.
Of course you might [...]
When a colleague, himself recently returned from Las Vegas, asked about my holiday plans for touring Colorado and Utah he said, “I suppose you’ve booked all your hotels“.
Well, no. My partner Helen always takes on the bulk of planning and she books in advance only the first night’s hotel, because we’re always late in from [...]
The Denver Art Museum has on display a poorly executed but anthropologically interesting painting called, ‘The Cutting Scene, Mandan O-kee-pa Ceremony‘, by George Catlin:
Interior of a Mandan timber medicine lodge depicting the limp bodies of two young Native American males hoisted in the air with ropes attached to wooden splints inserted through the muscles in [...]
I first visited the States in 2001, just before 9/11, and I’ve holidayed there every couple of years since. By the end of this summer I’ll have been to: Georgia; South Carolina; Alabama; Arkansas; Louisiana; California; Nevada; Arizona; Washington DC; Virginia; Tennessee; Mississippi; Kentucky; West Virginia; Colorado; New Mexico; and Utah.
I think I was most [...]
As we’re off to Denver shortly for a tour of the … what do you call the area … the Southwestern States? The Mountain States? Well, anyway, we’re probably going to be taking in bits of Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona.
A couple of years ago two black bears ran right past us [...]
On my first evening in California, I was stopped by a police car - or highway patrol car, or whatever - for shooting a stop sign. But as John Staddon observes in The Atlantic Monthly,
Consider the stop sign. It seems innocuous enough; we do need to stop from time to time. But think about [...]
Last year we went to southern Spain - I’d only been up north previously, around Barcelona, Pamplona and Bilbao and I was a little unsure about flying down too close the the Costas but it turned out to be a very interesting holiday. Here’s a map of our trip, with a few photos.
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