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Fri, 28 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Wed, 26 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [169]
FOLKS WHO KNOW—OR CARE—ABOUT such things consider Sedona to be a spiritual mecca and global metaphysical center. For them the red-orange of the rocks is one of the most neuro-stimulating of colors and the year-round greenery adds a sense ... Read more >
Tue, 25 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [171]
COTTONWOOD IS 300 MILES FROM BISBEE, north-by-northwest for you Hitchcock fans. It is a much better deal, AirBnB-wise, than Sedona where we wanted to stay. Officially a mother-in-law suite, “The Miller’s” has a separate bedroom, full ... Read more >
Mon, 24 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [175]
GOOGLE MAPS SAYS THE GRAND CANYON is 94-miles from Cottonwood. According to Gabbi, who relies on roads, it’s a bit over 150. Pas de problemme —no drive is too far for another chance to see one of Nature’s best efforts.
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Fri, 21 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [215]
We passed a guy on a bench once.
He was playing a kazoo partially dressed like a clown and wore ski goggles.
It was summer.
“That would have been you,” you said, smiling.
“If you hadn’t met me.... Read more >
Mon, 17 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [182]
“WARREN’S PLACE” IS A CUTE 1926 CRAFTSMAN house in the Mule Mountains, a mile-high and 25 miles from the Mexican border. When a search for AirBnBs in Sierra Vista came up empty we found this place in the old mining town of Bisbee. The ... Read more >
Sat, 15 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [178]
TOMBSTONE—THE NAME BRINGS VISIONS of gunfights on dusty streets, saloons with wooden sidewalks, whisky and whores, Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers and a cast of seedy characters from the old West.
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Fri, 14 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Fri, 7 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [347]
2022 IS GETTING OFF TO A SLOW START. Days are still 24-hours long and there are seven days in a week but we haven’t done much to fill them. The weather has been chilly with more rain than usual and, except for Connie, we’ve all been coughing ... Read more >
Wed, 22 Dec 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [322]
NIGHTS IN THE SAHARA CAN GET COLD but it hardly prepared us for the weather in Omaha. Even our arrival from Atlanta was in doubt—wind gusts topping 100 mph had been reported all day, tearing off roofs and rolling semi-trucks on the interstate. ... Read more >
Thu, 16 Dec 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [313]
MOSES’ EXODUS FROM EGYPT to the Promised Land took him forty years. We made the trip in 40-hours from Covid test in Cairo to touchdown in Omaha. Along the way Moses received the Ten Commandments. We got the message that we are not as young as we ... Read more >
Wed, 15 Dec 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 4 Sep 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [233]
WE WILL BE OUT OF TOUCH for the next week or so. We are taking a cruise to Aruba, Curacao and the Dominican Republic on the Carnival Horizon . One of the ways cruise lines remain profitable in spite of the low fares is the amount they charge for extras—... Read more >
Mon, 24 May 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [357]
WE'RE BACK FOR ONLY TWO WEEKS AND already are planning our escape. Most people travel to Colorado for the skiing and hiking—we come for our annual proddings and probings. Lest you think we’re masochists, Colorado is where our doctors are—... Read more >
Tue, 11 May 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [316]
LAST NIGHT’S SNOW WAS A BIT OF A SHOCK, probably more to the emergent cherry blossoms than it was to us. This isn’t our first taste of Springtime in the Rockies, after all. Just the same, it feels strange to be wearing long pants and shoes, ... Read more >
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