The Sanderson

... held this weekend. The motels are full, and there are lots of people around. One has to wonder why anyone would pick Sanderson, Texas for this event. Dinner tonight was pork chops, mashed potatoes, salad, and apple crisp. When I found out we were ...

Day 24: Sanderson, Texas to Amistad (Del Rio), Texas (111 miles; 6:46; 1 exploding tire!) We awoke early this morning and after a hearty breakfast in the dark, hit the road just as the first glow of dawn was appearing in the eastern sky. Whoever ...

... a good 4 or 5 hours sleep as well so arrived fresh. Met at the airport by a typically noticable Todd, 30 min back to the Sanderson nakamal where the kids were welcomed over a smol shell of Kava each before being put to bed, enabling the "adults" ...

Hello everyone! I managed to connect wi-fi in Heathrow. Yesterday we went to Sanderson (the hotel is projected by Phillipe Stark); to Spoon restaurant (which was also created by famous chef Alain Ducasse). But it was not the restaurant that made the ...

... took the Gatwick express to get into Victoria station, which was all very easy to do. From Victoria, we took a cab to Sanderson's Hotel, which was an amazing hotel. We loved the clean modern esthetics of the room. Everything was bright white, from the ...

... twin questions "Why would anybody build a town out here?" and "What could all these people possibly do to earn a living?". Sanderson bears a striking resemblance to the fictional town of Anarene in the movie The Last Picture Show. I half expected to see ...

... up. We broke out the lap blankets. Prickly pear growing along the road looked out of place in the cold. South of Sanderson traffic increased a bit with a number of RVs headed north. We passed several border patrols on a frontage road examining tracks in ...

... Texans sure enjoyed a good hangin' even back then.  Other than that there was really not much to the half horse town of Sanderson.   We finally arrived at Big Bend that evening, our second National Park in the US where we ended up staying for 10 ...

... farms the Sanderson ancestors used to own. Visited the site where the largest gold nugget was discovered and a cemetery where a new Sanderson memorial stone was laid. Before we went out this morning we laid a couple of nets to entice some yabbies.  ...

... where no bank machines worked so had to fork out for a taxi to the hotel where Monkey 'Moonbeam' Matt and Kristian 'Tessa' Sanderson were waiting for us. After spending a month or so in the wilderness of New Zealand the metropolis of Rio ...

After leaving Marathon, we stopped in Sanderson to top off our fuel because we didn't know how far we could get with our 30 gal gas tank, and it was a long way between gas stations.  We went on from Sanderson to Del Rio, then on through San Antonio ...

... Ysbyty Gwynedd Nurses Photo: clockwise from left: Alan Fineran, Nic Moore, Rhys Jones, Alvin Cortuna and Glenn Sanderson. A group of nurses and physiotherapists from Ysbyty Gwynedd are set tackle one of Britain's toughest mountaineering challenges ...

... Lakes for the next day, though my friends-all Midwesterners: Mark and Lauren Feldman (Chicago), Katie Taylor (Chicago) and Sarah Sanderson (Holland, Michigan)-planned to relax and take a tour to Moon Valley, the area's biggest tourist pull. More on that ...

... desk clerk, a disembodied voice on a walkie-talkie and 2 train attendants to figure out the Mystery of the Missing Train. Turns out Mr Sanderson did it and he would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for us meddling kids. So Liam and I were stuck ...