Cliff's Barbershop
The town I had just rolled into had an air about it. In a dry and parched land near the Manzana Mountains, Mountainair, New Mexico...
A Mission in Ruins
If ancient ruins have anything to tell it might ought to be the lessons of failed societies. How they came to be, their practices and how...
Mountains on Fire
All day long I was seeing billowing smoke in the far distance after starting my journey from Cloudcroft, New Mexico. Nothing to worry...
An Angel With a Mission
Golden light was playing upon the Sacred Heart Mission, a beautiful church building here in Cloudcroft located high in the Lincoln...
Beneath the Surface of Things
I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve been blind and ignorant of one of the worlds wonders. How could such a thing as this escape my...
Texas Oil Patch
Oil was first detected in Texas in 1543 when Spanish explorer Luis de Moscoso of the DeSoto expedition saw oil floating on the water in...
A Burning, Seething Cauldron
Texas sports a grand canyon of its own, the Palo Duro Canyon near Amarillo. As the second-largest canyon in the United States, it is...
The Whispers
On a proper road trip the wheels keep moving whichever way the wind blows. And so it is on my journey. But not everything I come across...
High Plains Drifter
From east to west, the High Plains rise in elevation from around 1,160 feet (350 m) to over 7,800 feet (2,400 m). My path takes me to...
A Disaster Blows Into Town
First a little background: At 9:45 p.m. CDT on May 4, 2007, during a deadly tornado outbreak, Greensburg, Kansas was hit by an EF5...