E Ldge Albuquerque

... did those many years ago (well, maybe a couple of pounds heavier!). So now I'm sitting here at the President's club relaxing as much as one can with a group of New Yokas having a screaming conversation a few feet away.

Not traveling business class so I'll miss the pampering and good food. Hope I can get a few hours of sleep so as to be ready to hit the ground running upon arrival. We shall see.

... the phone! All within a day.
Well, I didn't waste much time. There were some lemons to squeeze! I made up with Tami, the test results were negative by Monday, I recovered and spent a ton of time, while waiting on the car, to practice piano, guitar, and paint. We even took a drive through the mountains and had dinner in Santa Fe. By Tuesday night my car was ready and I spent one last evening hanging and ...

... cafe w/Lee & Emeral - had french toast, veggie omelets, apple fritters
Santa Fe - fiesta tours, cathedral basilica of st. Francis of Assisi, saw step buildings where it took ladders to get into the buildings from the roof tops as there were no other openings, san miguel mission which is the oldest church in the US, santa fe is the highest US city & oldest capital
Rooftop pizza - santa fe

DAY 5: Mon August 10
Had a heart to heart with Rosemary and the ...

... Unfortunately we were 3 days too late. The majority of the birds, thousands, had already taken off. There were a few still there and the sunrise was beautiful.
We then drove southwest to Silver City for a few days of exploring.

After takeoff from Creve Coeur, fuel burn indicated I could make Bartlesville, OK so I went there and landed. Walking into the office, some good old okie boy said you can't park that EAA biplane there, or is it a Smith Miniplane. Which is like calling some guy's Ferrari a Fiat. Then he introduced himself as Chuck Yeager and then I discovered it was really Charlie Harris pulling my leg, an old acquaintance. After BVO ...

... with other tribes, grew corn in the valley and raised their families on the top of the mesa. But their high sandstone walls turned out to be no match for the Spanish conquistadors who came seeking the city of gold, and conquered the Acoma in the process. The Acoma became Catholic and experienced the repression of the colonial rule. In December 1598, the Acoma learned that one of the conquistadors, Juan de Onate, intended to colonize the reqion. They ambushed Onate ...

I was in Times square in NY taking photos about the crowd crossing the street then i went straight to the airport, get a flight to Albuquerque, there, i picked up a rental car and drove 8 hours to Monument Valley in Arizona, so, exactly 24 hours after time square i was standing in a desert, with for only company a lost dog...actually i appreciated the difference.

I get to the airport in Albuquerque at 4.30pm. my flight is at 6:30pm..I quickly hit the mens room
and eat 8 gelatin capsules of dried, powdered ( fine), peyote. within an hour of consumption
I'm through security and sitting with my laptop and the peyote kicks in."...Woah Mescalito !!!!
..please let me maintain and not have a major freakout here in the airport....just let me maintain and get me on the plane!!!!".....once on board it's smooth sailing...lol

... know how many people support the immigrant cause! We are growing a second class society with our immigrant labor force. We won't give immigrants driver's licenses, a problem I often have to address when I represent these poor people in court. If we did give them licenses, we would have insured motorists on our road, a certain benefit to the public. We would also have positive I.D.'s as we all submit to fingerprinting when ...

... the safest thing to do would be to avoid using the walkway at all, I got past by sprinting up the middle of the road, leaving Jay to face the danger alone. He got through unscathed, but said that there had been a couple of people standing in there, and he had been ******** himself walking past them; a more likely story was that they had been frozen to the spot in fear of some huge bear-like shape approaching them, and were relieved to see it walk by without incident.