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Our road trips through the USA.
Published in Travellady On Line Magazine Water drips off his wide-brimmed hat and from the hem of his long black coat, though there is not a cloud in the night sky. Seen through the wrought iron side-gate of the Alamo he stands motionless beside the old church, one of the few remaining original structures. Some say as they looked into his shadowy face their eyes fleetingly connected with his chilling black orbs before he vanished. During the last days of the legendary battle of 1836, in which all 189 defenders were killed, Commander William B. Travis reported relentless heavy...
Published in Travellady online Magazine Scouring a map for a southern vacation niche, my husband Rick pointed to a dot on the Gulf of Mexico saying, “Corpus Christi has a nice ring”. A bit of investigation revealed it had enough sand, surf and delightful amenities to fit our classification of “glorious”. Gaining its appellation from the Roman Catholic feast day on which Spanish explorer Alonzo Alverez de Pineda discovered the area, we arrived in the only city so named on the planet. On our very first morning, we headed out of the city proper and over the bridge to...
Published in The Surrey Now, The Coquitlam Now, Vancouver 24 Hour Magazine and Travellady Magazine For decades artists and artisans have been lured by the beauty of the Sangre de Christo Mountains and solitude of the high desert mesa. Since the early 1920′s painters and photographers were drawn to capture the monumental adobe multistoried dwellings of Taos Pueblo, resplendent in the ever changing hues of the area’s remarkable quality of light. Leaving the parched New Mexico lowlands, my husband Rick and I drove upward through dense pine forests to overnight at Taos city at an elevation of 6970 ft....
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