Regular Life

The difference between pea-size and dime-size shouldn’t be discounted.
To start our Tuesday, Dad drives us on a truck-only road to one open only for hikers and horsemen. I mean horsepeople. No, that makes this sound like Chronicles of Narnia. Horse riders?
Although Mom enjoys a good walk and natural scenery, rigorous hiking isn’t her bag. She [...]

(Click here to read about the first day of our trip to Red River, New Mexico.)
A thick stench fills my nose when I open our room to the morning air.
Cattle feed lots and their resulting dung dunes surround Amarillo. For the uninitiated, a feed lot crams all the beef cattle it can into the smallest [...]

Our ingenious plan to pack almost nothing the night before our trip worked like a charm. We left at 5:25 p.m. a week ago Saturday instead of our target two o’clock. Before you ask, we can’t teach anyone how to do this. It just flows out of us naturally.
At a mere six hours, we still [...]