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I have started to put in some pictures. The first 10 are in ‘South to the Border’, if you care to look. What you will see at first, are merely thumbnails. Click on the pic and you can see the full size pic. Be warned – they are BIG files (2 to 3 MB). Please […] http://www.tachras.com/press/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Bear2.m4v This video was taken in the Wildlife West Nature Park in New Mexico. If you click in the bottom right-hand corner, you can run this video full-screen. Please allow it a little time to download. I have no idea what the bear is up to. If he is scratching an itch, there must be […] While the lonely few strive to finish the Great USA Song Contest, I would just like to sum up the trip. The highs and the lows. The highs! The Museum of the Cherokee. Top notch museum, and a great story. When it comes to telling their own story, the Cherokee are magical. The narration is […] Here we are on our last day in the United States of America. After crossing this country from East to West, I can only think that the great distance separating the parts makes it possible to believe that this is a united country. The reality is very different. But that is what makes the […] I know that it says ‘Hollywood’ at the top. Patience – we’ll get there! Due to the dreadful WiFi service at our timeshare for the week, all these blogs are being written in the UK. I did mention that the Club de Soleil had dreadful WiFi, in a previous blog. It would appear that […] Flagstaff didn’t make much of an impression. The air was thin enough at 7,000 without clambering up to the observatory on a local mountain peak. The lowlight of the evening was dining out. Take my advice – don’t order the mashed potato, it comes with ‘country gravy’. That’s like ‘gravy’, but white. It is […] Two nights in Albuquerque. Surely we can do something … And we did! We headed for the old part of town. The original centre of town pre-dates the rest of the USA by some considerable degree. Way before 1776. Lots of adobe buildings, craft shops, jewellery and all sorts. You can watch the craftsmen […] So much for Amarillo. It was only an overnight stop, and we wanted to get moving west. We probably missed a lot (according to the Route 66 bumph) but we can only do so much. Pick the bits you fancy. Somehow, in the first write-up, I missed mentioning the Cadillac Ranch. Officially sanctioned vandalism. […] Apologies for the break in sending out the blogs. The Club de Soleil (like so many ‘classy’ resorts in the USA), has a crap WiFi arrangement. Cheap motels have fast (and often, free) WiFi, but the plush resorts have very limited facilities. And they cannot understand why anyone requires access to the Internet. They can’t […] Do you actually NEED a clue for this one? From the film. The city we have just visited. The next tune applies if we had come down the Mother Road from Chicago. But, to be strictly accurate, the person featured in the tune never managed to get there The higher-pitched version. We wandered off […] |
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