by Deonne Kahler | Mar 9, 2014 | Travel
The day I went to Carlsbad Caverns, I missed two towns on my list. One was White’s City, which I’d heard good things about – something about a restaurant. And I thought, Hey, I’m white, so why not? But I ran out of time, what with all the lateness and scary cave...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 9, 2014 | Travel
I’m claustrophobic. So when I was younger and considering careers, rejected options included astronaut, deep-sea diver, Houdini-like escape artist, coal miner, and competitive spelunker. In college I had an experience with caves involving a punctured gas tank and a...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 8, 2014 | General
Know what I found in Deming? Death and terror. That sounds worse than it was. I started the day in Mountain View Cemetery, which has to be better than ending it there. (Ba da bum.) I love cemeteries, all those lives memorialized, so much history to wonder about –...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 8, 2014 | Travel
Not only is Roswell the Dairy Capital of the Southwest (not the world, as reader Scooter LaHooter helpfully pointed out), it’s also home to a pocket of fine art goodness, with not an ET in sight.The Roswell Museum and Art Center has a good collection of Indian...