We have released our lovely calendar for the year 2015.  As in previous years, the calendar features images from the previous year’s travels, plus a list of holidays from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, and the U.K. As with previous years, I make no money from this.  I just do this to share my life with […]

On Christmas Eve the Los Altos neighborhood on the west side of Albuquerque turns  off its street lights and returns for one evening to the 19th Century.  The only illumination is the soft golden glow of luminarias, which are basically a candle in a brown paper bag, with a bit of dirt or kitty litter in […]

We are now in Amarillo, Tx.  After two days of crossing the Great Plains, I’m beginning to grow a bit nostalgic for those Pennsylvania mountains.  Variety has its virtues. But tomorrow we’ll be in New Mexico, where there are plenty of mountains.  Though alas, the entire drive there will be boring. The Joadmobile continues to […]

I write from a motel near Dayton, Oh., after a long second day of our Cross-Country Odyssey. The plan was to load the car of Kathy’s late Aunt Dolores with such of Dolores’ things as we wanted to bring west, then drive cross-country in the middle of winter in an underpowered, overloaded 1995 Ford Escort […]