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Joe-Jah

Joe-Jah

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“Joe-Jah” is how a friend of my parents, Hettie Bates, pronounced Georgia. She was a force of nature, loud and funny. I was told she was issued one of the first IBM Selectric typewriters because she could type so fast that she would jam the keys on a conventional electric
The Towing Museum

The Towing Museum

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Susan assured me that we would not want to miss the National Towing Museum during our visit to Chattanooga. She was right. Who wouldn’t like to see the very first tow truck or a collection of beautifully-restored examples?

Not to mention the Towing Hall of Fame, honoring members of

The Coker Museum

The Coker Museum

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Pardon me, boy

Is that the Chattanooga choo choo?

Track twenty-nine

Boy, you can gimme a shine

Glenn Miller and his Orchestra from Sun Valley Serenade

I bet you’ve seen lots of old cars. I’m not talking about a ten-year-old Corolla, I mean ones made before 1940. Did

Nashville Cats

Nashville Cats

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Nashville cats, play clean as country water

Nashville cats, play wild as mountain dew

Nashville cats, been playin’ since they’s babies

Nashville cats, get work before they’re two

–The Lovin’ Spoonfull

The lower end of Broadway Street in Nashville is a lot like Spring Break in Florida. Except

Bloomin’ Cactus

Bloomin’ Cactus

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Cor blimey! Lord love a duck! I’m gobsmacked, chuffed. I’m streets ahead and sitting up like Jackie!

Sorry for the British-isms. Once I started with “bloomin’” I couldn’t stop!

Unless you live year-round in the Southwest, it can be hard to see flowering cacti. In Scottsdale,

Overlooked

Overlooked

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After dinner at Barrio Queen in Old Town Scottsdale, we decided to walk along the Arizona Canal and over the Solstice Bridge. This is the only bridge designed by Paolo Soleri that was ever built. Paolo, you may recall, lived nearby at Cosanti and spent a lot of his time
A Home for the Homeless

A Home for the Homeless

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It’s hard to take good photos through a chain link fence. My apologies. I thought about not posting at all but wanted to introduce you to the Southwest Wildlife Conservation Center.

The center was founded in 1994 by Linda Searles whose vision was to provide a home for animals

My Pal Tony

My Pal Tony

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It’s been a while since we explored the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale. I agree with Tony Bennett, for a musician it’s the best museum in the world. With the temperature still in the upper nineties, it was time for another visit. 

When the MIM opened about a

VPNs Are Your Friends

VPNs Are Your Friends

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You’ve probably seen articles recently about how evildoers can scam, skim, and snoop your private information for their financial benefit. Besides encouraging you to wrap yourself in a cloak of paranoia once appropriate for a Cold War spy – “no one is who they seem to be” – these articles inevitably
Kung Hei Fat Choy

Kung Hei Fat Choy

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A visit to the Seattle Asian Art Museum on the day of the Chinese New Year.
Reprise: FLW

Reprise: FLW

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It’s so hard these days to gain sustained national notoriety.

Trump brags about grabbing pussies. Meh, locker room talk. Some screwed up boy (and they’re always boys) grabs a military grade weapon and takes a baker’s dozen lives. We are shocked and saddened. Then we move on.

More “This and That”

More “This and That”

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Above: four bikers recently arrived in Todos Santos pose for a photo outside of the Hotel California.

Mary Anne seems pleased with dessert during our Anniversary dinner at Lon’s at the Hermosa.

Arlene, on the left, is my running buddy from our days in Portland. She was in Phoenix

Granite Mountain

Granite Mountain

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What fun! Our friends Wayne and Jane came to visit for a few days. They’re the folks who sold us the condo a couple of years ago. Besides the pleasure of their company, we learned about a few new things to see.

One of those things was the Granite

Paper Dresses!

Paper Dresses!

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For people just a little older than I am, the Sixties had to be an absolute gas. You could hop into your VW bug with the stick-on flowers, slip the latest Moby Grape into the old eight track, light up a joint and head to your Sensitivity Training group. There
The O’Odham

The O’Odham

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Primitive tools and a lot of time can yield impressive results. To the Egyptian pyramids, the Great Wall of China and the dry stone fences of the United Kingdom and Ireland, add the O’Odham irrigation canals.

The O’Odham flourished for 1400 years in a collection of settlements near