R.I.P. Porter Waggoner |
When I was a junior in high school a friend called me up one night to go out to the county fair (Hawkins County, Tennessee) to see Porter Waggoner and the Wagon Wheels. They also had some young ...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 21:06:00 GMT |
Chihualoa |
ChihualoaThe rainy season, and Hurricane Henriette in particular, hadn't done the roads any good. And they weren't much good to start with.We had left the paved road 5 hours and a boat ride ago in Ch...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Sep 2007 20:23:00 GMT |
Ambrose Bierce |
If you are like me you read Ambrose Bierce's short story "Incident at Owl Creek Bridge" in high school. It made more of an impression on me, more than "Beowulf" and painful 19th century poetry....
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:18:00 GMT |
A Plaza |
I've been working near a very small village eastern Sonora, call it Los Corrales. Its kind of nice little village, but very small and without many "basics". The nearest gas station is 30 m...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 20:12:00 GMT |
Dispatch from Aguajito Canyon |
I was running out of time and my client was running out of money. Either I found a significant water source in the next two weeks, or the project was going to go belly up and I would land high a...
Posted by on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 23:00:00 GMT |
Dispatch from Coahuila |
Northern Coahuila, near the Chihuahua Border.
I spent last week and weekend working with a drill rig near Quemicas el Rey Coahuila, trying to find water in a really dry place. I always say that a go...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:22:00 GMT |
