by Deonne Kahler | Mar 11, 2014 | Travel
Midpoint Café (in Adrian on Route 66, at the west edge of town) sits, not surprisingly, at the midpoint of Old Route 66 between Chicago and L.A., 1139 miles to each. Adrian is small (pop. 150), and so is the café menu, pretty much just sandwiches and dessert. The...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 11, 2014 | Travel
Tucumcari, New Mexico is named after the mountain that sits nearby. It’s a town of about 6,000 people, on old Route 66. I stay at the Flying J truck stop for free in the parking lot. I don’t even unhitch. I make sure everything’s okay with Sadie, then settle into a...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 9, 2014 | Travel
I’d rate my maiden voyage with Sadie a success, since a) I did not blow myself up lighting the stove, b) I did not run over animals or small children while pulling into a campsite, and c) Sadie did not come unhitched and go sailing by me on the highway. (Thanks for...
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 9, 2014 | Travel
Nuts and goth – how can you go wrong? (P.S. Points if you can name the celebrity in this video.) Save
by Deonne Kahler | Mar 9, 2014 | Travel
When I was at the Deming Luna Mimbres Museum, I had chatted with two women at the reception desk, one in her 20s and one probably in her 70s. When I said I lived in Taos and was on my way to Silver City, the young woman said, “Silver’s funky, like Taos. You’ll love...
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 9, 2014 | Travel
Some of you had asked to see Sadie the Scamp’s interior, so here you go, my very first iMovie project. Totally unscripted. Obviously.
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...
