Blog revival
Time to revive this blog. I have done quite a bit of moving since the trip to Ethiopia in late 2007 – Singapore – Scotland – England – Australia – and home to NZ in between times of course. Nowhere on these travels have I felt the urge to tell tales to the three (plus/minus) watchers I know set up an rss from this site. But who could resist writing the story that follows from this email from my mate Tom in Santa Fe, NM?
"The car's tuned up. I have reserved places to stay -- a private house in Truth or Consequences, a country lodge in Fort Davis, Texas, near an astronomical observatory, and then the Hotel Paisano in Marfa, Texas, where Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Rock Hudson stayed while making "Giant" in the early 1950s. We have a tour lined up in Marfa of an over-the-top, avant garde, conceptual art exhibit in two large Quonset structures that once housed an ammunitions depository. Then to Austin on the 22nd. We will make at least one stop to run across the border for lunch, either at El Paso/Juarez or Del Rio/Piedras Negras.
If we can get away from the Albuquerque airport quickly on the 17th, we can make it down to the Owl Cafe (at least an hour to the south) on the edge of the vast Jornada del Muerto badlands in time for a dinner of green chile hamburgers (arguably the world's best) before they close at 8:30 p.m. Then it's another hour and a half to Truth or Consequences where we can soak in the horse trough and get massages the following day. I suppose you'll be pretty jet lagged, but don't worry, relax, we'll take care of you. This is going to be so much fun."
YEE HAH! I WANT TO STAY IN THE HORSE TROUGH!!!!!!!!!!
The wonderful man (Tom) who arranged all this is the very same one I picked up hitch hiking just south of Aberdeen Scotland in 1977, lost touch with for 25 years then camped out with in sub-zero temperatures in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. He managed to persuade me and Stacy this was a good idea. Doubtful we were, dead right he was! I will not doubt him again. Not when it comes to travel plans anyway.
So this time we are ‘chasin the blues’ from Albuquerque New Mexico to Austin and San Antonio Texas.
‘We’ being Mr Gary Harvey himself & Ian Thompson of Gary Harvey Band fame and Ian's wife Lorraine.
Photos and travel stories to follow soon.
"The car's tuned up. I have reserved places to stay -- a private house in Truth or Consequences, a country lodge in Fort Davis, Texas, near an astronomical observatory, and then the Hotel Paisano in Marfa, Texas, where Elizabeth Taylor, James Dean and Rock Hudson stayed while making "Giant" in the early 1950s. We have a tour lined up in Marfa of an over-the-top, avant garde, conceptual art exhibit in two large Quonset structures that once housed an ammunitions depository. Then to Austin on the 22nd. We will make at least one stop to run across the border for lunch, either at El Paso/Juarez or Del Rio/Piedras Negras.
If we can get away from the Albuquerque airport quickly on the 17th, we can make it down to the Owl Cafe (at least an hour to the south) on the edge of the vast Jornada del Muerto badlands in time for a dinner of green chile hamburgers (arguably the world's best) before they close at 8:30 p.m. Then it's another hour and a half to Truth or Consequences where we can soak in the horse trough and get massages the following day. I suppose you'll be pretty jet lagged, but don't worry, relax, we'll take care of you. This is going to be so much fun."
YEE HAH! I WANT TO STAY IN THE HORSE TROUGH!!!!!!!!!!
The wonderful man (Tom) who arranged all this is the very same one I picked up hitch hiking just south of Aberdeen Scotland in 1977, lost touch with for 25 years then camped out with in sub-zero temperatures in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. He managed to persuade me and Stacy this was a good idea. Doubtful we were, dead right he was! I will not doubt him again. Not when it comes to travel plans anyway.
So this time we are ‘chasin the blues’ from Albuquerque New Mexico to Austin and San Antonio Texas.
‘We’ being Mr Gary Harvey himself & Ian Thompson of Gary Harvey Band fame and Ian's wife Lorraine.
Photos and travel stories to follow soon.
posted by Cathy Gunn at
May 13, 2008
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