jim owens
What a long strange trip it has been. The original plan was for a quick in-and-out for two people over three days to catch a ball game and use up some airline credits that were in need of being used up by a certain date. Simple right. Not so much. The trip had evolved. In […]
A quick down and back put me in Southern Nevada for ten days. On the day I arrived it was topping out somewhere in the 90’s. On the day we left it was 106, had just been 112, and was going to be bouncing around in that difficult 106 to 112 range for the foreseeable […]
It was around ten years ago. Madera Canyon. Arizona. Just south of Tucson. We tent-camped in the small high-elevation campground near the end of the road. Early in the morning, shortly after sunrise, we drove down the canyon for coffee at a fast-food drive-through and then right back up again. A wonderful spot to photograph […]
Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]
All of my teams are bad. The Chicago Cubs, Syracuse Men’s basketball, Paris Saint Germain, Barcelona, the Las Vegas Raiders and the Utah Jazz. Such a weird hodgepodge. Well perhaps they aren’t all bad, but none of them have much of a chance of allowing their fans to bask in the sweet warm sunshine of […]