Randoms From The Road

Is it time to go road tripping yet? The weather forgot to take its medication again and now it can't make up its mind whether it's spring or not. Couple days of spring, a day of winter, and then it's early summer. Lather, rinse, repeat. Every time the mercury gets to rising, I get to thinking about adventuring. Then the weather has other plans.

Better fire up the wanderlust. Got an adventure planned here in a few days to catch the eclipse, anybody else going to catch the totality next Monday? That'll be a good start, assuming the weather is cooperative. Gonna take more than that though. To tide me over until we head for Hoosier National Forest in Indiana, had to revisit my photos from the last road trip out in New Mexico last fall.

Can somebody who grew up west of the Mississippi please explain why y'all have car graveyards of your successive generations of vehicles? Really first noticed it in Wyoming, would be driving by and realize I was looking at four generations of houses, trucks, RVs, and tractors. It's not that it doesn't happen out this way but it's never that tidy. Plus, rust never sleeps in the good old southern humidity.

One of the most interesting parts of my last road trip was seeing all the different cultures and peoples and how they overlapped and interacted. Sometimes it got a bit surreal, in Albuquerque you could listen to this band of true locals while you waited for your Breaking Bad RV Tour to pick you up.

Or walk a block and catch a flamenco performance. Damnit, now I just want to go back to New Mexico. Need to do some road tripping on the east coast though. Never been to New Orleans, that should be new enough.

Despite the name, they're still keeping the old ways alive in 'New' Mexico. We were there on Indigenous Peoples Day, which was quite an experience. Would go on more but this post has run out of road.