Take 50

Are you seriously gonna ask me why I had chile verde a second time in one day? It's like you don't know me. It's like you don't know...

Big Bend head been an aspirational park for me for 25 years: hard to get, worth the journey. Tracy was like that for me, too: hard to...

So maybe it wasn't a fair fight. But I won. On the one hand, he was going almost 80. I, on the other hand, was going faster. He...

Lizzy's Tortilleria in Van Horn, TX, has performed a miracle with its chile verde, raising me up with shouts of hallelujah! Beef,...

It is with great gustatory sadness I report the demise of Taco Cabana. While it still exists, its menu has been savaged by an accountant...

Yes, I just got finished decrying man's inhumanity to man. But the science! But the history! So if a word ever deserved an oxymoron to...

To my knowledge, Tracy never visited White Sands. She'd have found the general lack of shade daunting, but she'd have liked the craziness...

Sometimes even the best among us become agents of ignominy.

Is it rain if it never touches earth, suspended like a note in a song, unfinished. Just as well remain virga, floating, better than...

I'm in Albuquerque, home of Walter White, so it seemed appropriate to pun on his show name. But though it isn't a joyous journey to...

While delivering a car to my son is the ostensible purpose of this journey, I have a duty to the love I lost to do right by her ashes. We...

Turns out, my son needs a car. Also turns out, by virtue of a series of unfortunate events, I have a spare: Tracy's Mazda CX-5. SO WAS...

The last time Tracy and I were in Santa Fe, it hailed. Then rained. Then snowed. Maybe I'm overstating it, but we didn't care. It's...

The rolling green hills and snowy peaks of Colorado give way to the spare yellow grass and mesas of northern New Mexico. It looks like a...

Several years ago Tracy and I passed through Rocky Mountain National Park. I had only been on the edge of it before, and didn't have a...

In a rare moment of convenience intersecting road-trip, it turns out my path yielded access to a "bonus" national park. My brother...

Oh morning Crow where is it you are going? Such haste there is, oh yes let's hurry, in ones and twos, winging hard and straight (no time...

The cottonwoods, they huddle by the river, milling not looking too anxious for just a sip of the Arkansas come bubbling by. In these...

Canyonlands is one of those parks where the main actor is actually missing: we only have the artifacts left behind by the inexorable and...

While hiking in Canyonlands today,I encountered an oddity: permanent cairns. If you have no idea what I might mean, look at the photo...