The Maverick

In search of the Rio County Courthouse and the Buddy Deeds Memorial in Frontera, Texas from John Sayle's motion picture 'Lone Star'.

We left Del Rio, Texas early in the morning due to a 6 - 7 hour drive. Our drive to Maverick Ranch RV Park was a beautiful drive through mountain ranges and flat lands. Maverick Ranch RV Park is located on the outskirts of Big Bend National Park ...

... Bysshe Shelley's portrayal of the spirit- as one that animates the Poet's imagination.  For me, the traveller (a.k.a. the Maverick Ranger) inspires the poet (a.k.a. Hana Li, my creative writing identity).  Take what you will from this.  ...

(I got a new pair of "ray-ban" aviators, hence the title) so here we are, finally in Asia. KL is busy, grimy, high-tech and backwards all at the same time; this feels like Asia. we arrived to our nice guesthouse and jumped right into the fun, hitting ...

... I was not expecting everything to be closed Thursday through Tuesday.  You know it is a serious holiday when the Maverick's, our favorite across-the-street strip joint, is closed.  Although our number of restaurants and activities were limited ...

... (even though we’d firmly established Rob was in fact from California and had only been to Vegas once).   Unperturbed, Maverick bought back in and after a couple of rounds again decided to go “all-in”.  However this time ...

... 's character in the movie Top Gun. Three pilots and me. Okay....this might be interesting. We clambered in the plane, Maverick and I squeezing into the two back seats and Barry excitedly inspecting the gauges from the co-pilots spot. With music ...

... to ride...well one of them was named Maverick, yes like in Top Gun. One of the English blokes decided he HAD to have Maverick and someone else would name their horse Goose... Maverick was a good looking horse. Tall and muscular. One of our guides, who ...

... a wide variety of exposed rock strata.  When I reached the Santa Elena Canyon I was planning on heading north along the Old Maverick Road so I'd be able to take sunset shots of the Chisos Mountains to the east.  It seemed like a good plan until ...

... .  Behind me was Alan, the instructor who had been gliding since 1971.  After John and I made the obvious Iceman-Maverick jokes (i.e "Tower, this is GhostRider requesting a flyby") we were ready to roll.    As the Tug pulled us ...