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Accomplished Mission
Next to San Antonio’s Riverwalk, at the end of Wavy Crockett Street, this mission may be guarded more closely—but not as fierce—as it was in 1836. I dropped a rental car off here, but they turned me away, so I … Read More
Have An Agave
Anchoring San Antonio’s Market Square, Mi Tierra makes Mariachi music and Mexican food 24 hours a day. They’re proud of their margaritas, and why not? Margaritas cure ricketts, wealth and marriage.
Pumped In For Your Pleasure
The desert flower waits for months to bloom. Forgive me, great spirit of agua: We rolled into a desert oasis grimy with the soot of snow removal after sliding sideways out of a Flagstaff snowstorm at 7,000 feet. Through a … Read More
Patron Saint of Your Kitchen
I spied San Pasquale through a chile shop window in Santa Fe. He smiles from a wooden retablo painted by David Ross. A bon Sante. Ta failte. Bon appetit.
Tread Lightly
I slowed. What could this be? The sign was at the end of a seldom-traveled blacktop…no reason to use caution, out here on the edge of a thick stand of trees that marked the fringe of a mountain forest. Maybe … Read More
Snowed in.
Earthquake? Maybe later. This morning Southern California was snowed in. Mountain passes closed. Snowing in Las Vegas, Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson. 40 inches of snow in Flagstaff. bb-sized hail in Temecula (on blanket).