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Mon, 17 Jan 2022 | By graynomadsusa | Views [161]
“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 [161]
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 [322]
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 [306]
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 [291]
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 [214]
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 [338]
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 [301]
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 >
Mon, 10 May 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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Sat, 1 May 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [332]
THE ACTION IN VARANASI TAKES PLACE along the ghats, long stretches of concrete stairs leading from the maze of alleys to the river itself. Stairways, as it were, down to heaven. Beginning in the early morning, hoards of devoted Hindus descend ... Read more >
Sun, 25 Apr 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [321]
WE HAD PLANNED A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY DINNER for Saturday. Twenty-seven years is worthy of celebration, after all, and Myrtle Beach has a plethora of fine dining. With the social-distanced seating restrictions, the only table we could book at the Cork ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Apr 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [257]
TEN YEARS AGO TODAY WE LOCKED THE DOORS for the last time and set off to see the whole, wide world. The sale of the house was “under contract” in realtor-speak and most of our worldly possessions—everything that wouldn’t fit in ... Read more >
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 | By graynomadsusa | Views [250]
IF YOU ARE NOT SPEAKING RUSSIAN you might want to thank Connie and Steve. Back in the old Cold War days when the entire USSR—not just Vladimir—was out to get us, Connie and Steve, her boss at one of those “ABC” agencies, were ... Read more >
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