Wanderers in Wonder

I must go down to the seas again, to the vagrant gypsy life, To the gull’s way and the whale’s way where the wind’s like a whetted knife…                  From Sea Fever by John Masefield According to ‘International Beach Aficionados’, Galveston Island would be the lower Forty-Eight’s most popular beach area were it not for the…

‘The Rifle’ sculpture in Clifden, Ireland honors the courageous efforts of John Reilly and the San Patricios on behalf of Mexico during the Mexican American War (War of American Aggression to our friends south of the border). The city of Clifden in Ireland celebrates John Reilly, a native son, and the San Patricios annually on…

Leisurely motoring down Texas highway 16 between Fredericksburg and Kerrville today we came upon… Peace…Wanderers in Wonder.

Not really, Stonehenge II in Ingram, TX. Al Shepperd’s neighbor, Doug Hill, in Hunt, TX had a few large boulders left over from a landscaping project. Doug and Al talked about what to do with them. They decided to place them in a field behind Al’s house. They really liked the look of their ‘sculpture’.…

The ‘Treue der Union’ (Loyalty to the Union) Monument was dedicated in Comfort, Texas on 10 Aug 1866. The monument commemorates the murder of thirty-four ‘Union’ men at the Nueces Massacre in 1862. The state of Texas may have joined the traitors and the Confederacy, but the German Americans in the Texas Hill country did…

Peace…Wanderers in Wonder

Life in West Texas is not for the faint of heart and never has been . Water is scarce, the land not bountiful, heat oppressive, winds relentless, cold snaps brutal. Powerful Sioux and Arapahoe tribes pushed south from their ancestral lands in what is today Canada, beginning in the 1200’s. Smaller tribes, mostly Athabaskan speaking…

Out in the West Texas town of El Paso…my ‘new hip joint’ is off to a rousing start. The ‘new hip joint’ recommended by our El Paso friends, Sandra and Susie, Ardovino’s Pizza is also off to a rousing start. You fold one of their wonderful slices like pizza is supposed to be eaten and…

Once the largest town in the southern New Mexico Territory (present day Arizona and New Mexico), today Mesilla, or Old Mesilla as some prefer, is a peaceful little village popular with the tourist crowd. Mesilla sits in the Rio Grande Valley north of El Paso with the Organ Mountains to the East and El Rio…

The first of our kind arrived at Hueco Tanks in 7978 BC, I arrived in the Autumn of 1976. The early members of our race came for the perennial supply of water. I came for… Peacefully set in West Texas, thirty miles east of El Paso, Hueco Tanks consists of three ‘mountains’, more like three…