I have to admit – if asked to name places in the US to spend a few days, Taos New Mexico may not immediately spring to mind. And yet, our short stay (3 days) surprised me with its arts, its enviro-greenie vibe and its laid-back charm – and most of all, it’s history. We stayed…
“The morning light teaches the most basic of truths: Light chases away darkness.” There’s much to be said for Jared Diamond’s environmental call-to-action, “The Collapse” .. it was a book that certainly shook up our views on how weather interacts with sociology. It considers how changes in the climate can lead to massive changes in human…
For most computer users around the world, Adobe is a software company that makes PDFs, and Photoshop, and Illustrator, and Lightroom, and Premiere, and for radio geeks like me Audition. But there’s another, much older Adobe. As you travel through the American south-west, you see a variety of architectural styles and building materials –…
If you will excuse the indulgence, today’s #Travelpic is, in many ways, a bit like the relationship between me and my lovely wife, Shirley. I have always loved sandstone, and the way that single grains of sand can bind together under pressure – to create something sold and strong, and yet malleable and shaped by…
As a child I idolised the US Cavalry in movies and TV shows – I wanted to be Rusty from Rin Tin Tin, ably assisting the heroic Lt Rip Masters … or even one of F-Troop – who were bumbling, but always good-hearted. Of course, as I grew older, I recognised that the “heroes” in…
I got to climb into the mouth of the ancestral enemy yesterday .. at least in a manner of speaking. As part of our road-trip across America’s western states, on Tuesday, we got to peer back into history – and beyond, to the lands of the people now known as the Ancestral Pueblo people. Until…
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