Sedona is a total stunner of a town – and I also couldn’t shake the feeling that it is a little silly. They take their woo-woo very seriously. You can get your aura read, or cleansed, or smudged, you can commune with the spirits or crystals or tarot or any number of things, all with…
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And Feather Canyons Everywhere – West Trip Part Five – Arches National Park
I settled in on the night of June 30 with a rough idea of where we would go the next day at Arches, but decided to do some google searching to make sure I had a decent mental image of the map, the scale, and the attainable hikes we could cover the next day. WHICH…
Clouds Illusions I Recall – West Trip Part Four
Rows and flows of angel hairAnd ice cream castles in the airAnd feather canyons everywhereI looked at clouds that way We woke to a brisk and beautiful Taos morning on June 30, ready to deliver our Boy Scouts to their trailhead and then begin our divided adventures. We packed up swiftly – the hikers wore…
The Place of Red Willows – West Trip – Part Three
We woke June 29 in Taos to a clear sky, 52 degrees. The air is different in the high desert of northern New Mexico, the light is different. What a contrast with the muggy mid-summer below-sea-level swamplands of southeast Louisiana. Each morning the Prof would leave the room before we all woke up, get himself…
West Trip – Part Two – Fort Worth to Taos
Our second day is not our most exciting on this trip – for me it is just a way-station in a corporate hotel to let me get in a full day’s work, and the Prof agrees to take the boys out and about in town to get them out of my hair. Our hotel room…