Posts from ‘November, 2009’

A brand new contest for our blog readers! Everyone is invited to participate. No popular knowledge required. No common sense needed. No savvy necessary. Just one creative brain cell will do the trick! The contest question is: What is this woman doing? Send us your best guess by leaving a Comment to this post (see [...]

We’re staying in room 210 at the motel-that-shant-be-named in Tucson, Arizona. The same night we moved in, two gruff looking dudes moved in next door: room 208. I only accidently happened to see them at the front desk when I went downstairs to demand a coffeemaker. And then we never saw them again…. We did, [...]

It’s day 67 of the Great American Roadtrip! Here’s a collection of recent quotables from the road: At Hippie Hollow Park: “This here’s an adult park. Basically, there’s a bunch of naked people on the beach.” (Lucky for us, the nude dog park was only 1 more mile down the road) On a t-shirt in [...]

Constructed to mimic the Earth, which they call Biosphere 1. $200 million bucks spent. 2 and a half football fields big. 8 people locked in for 2 years. Second batch: 7 more people locked in but they didn’t make it for 2 years. And they weren’t even scientists. Trees fell over. Animals died. Current monthly [...]

Tombstone, Arizona. The Wild West! Or better yet, the wealthy west. Here, in the late 1800s, a couple evening hours spent with the lady of your choice at the Birdcage Theater cost $25 (the equivalent of about $800 today). If you wanted a bit more luxury and privacy you could take one of the higher [...]

We slept at Catalina State Park last night, back in our trusty tent Hubba Hubba. We’re just about 20 miles from Tucson but the sun sets rapidly here, around 6 pm, so we stopped and camped. If there were photos they would look something like this: Me: mummified in my sleeping bag. I looked like [...]

Strange events have befallen us here in Arizona. Leah has been incarcerated in a rural jailhouse just east of Phoenix. Let me rewind and tell you the tale. The story begins a couple weeks ago as we were leaving Memphis, Tennessee. Suddenly Leah was seized by the spirit. She started to twitch her lips, wiggle [...]

Last night has to be the oddest Hallowe’en I have ever experienced. Between the two of us, we manage to scrounge together a costume for me – the perfection of the Keith Richards’ love child look. But unfortunately Keith Richards was doomed to a solitary existence. No one else was dressed up! The Fiddler’s Dream, [...]

Now how many of you faithful blog readers get to eat ice cream on Hallowe’en? Those who are cuddled up in 5 blankets eating Ben & Jerry’s from the tub don’t count! I mean how many get to stand outside in the sunshine, looking at sparkling motorcycles while licking a Prickly Pear ice cream cone? [...]