The Ghosts of Texas History
I met a Davy Crockett devotee at the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. He made me remember.
Travel
Travel adventures
Nothing Doing on Kaua’i
The woman at Yumi’s smiled, a lot, and she was so welcoming. I was thinking I’d take my breakfast to go, but the room was lime green and orange and even though it was too hot in there, I wanted to stay. I got coffee, which was better than I’d expected it to be given …
Morning, Hanalei
There were seven of them, two women, five guys, total. They poured out of the big white pickup truck and ran down the beach. The guys were all wearing those funny fishing socks, the ones with the toes in them, and some of them were carrying masks and snorkels. One of the guys had a …
Three from Girona
You’re going to ask: Shot with a Panasonic Lumix.
Revising 1492
1492. For Americans, this date is common knowledge, we know it from a school rhyme. In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. Funded by Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain, Columbus sailed to the West Indies. A chain of exploration and exploitation followed, and the colonization of the Americas. What’s less common …