(from Cenizo Journal, 2nd Quarter 2017) I remember clearly the first time I crossed from Texas to Mexico. It was 1994, and I had just arrived in Alpine and opened a Bed & Breakfast called The Corner House. I was also writing a travel guidebook to the region. David Busey, who was director of the […]
Copper Canyon – Batopilas, November 1-7, 2017
Copper Canyon – Batopilas Visit Chihuahua City, take the train to Creel, and then by van to the bottom of Batopilas Canyon $1,380 November 1 – November 7, 2017 Wednesday, November 1. Car pool from Alpine to Presidio. Breakfast at El Patio restaurant. Taxi to Ojinaga, collecting a tourist via (free) en route.. Express bus […]
The Rio Grande: where did the water go?
Anyone standing on the banks of the Rio Grande upstream of Presidio might be excused for asking what is great or wild (Mexicans call it the “Wild River of the North”) about the sluggish stream of brown water flowing by. Fortunately, the brown stream is joined at this point by the fast-flowing Rio Conchos, three […]
Trinity Village, Newfoundland
Located on the Bonavista Peninsula, 3 hours drive from St. John’s, is the community of Trinity. Founded in the 17th Century, with a history of fishing, the settlement has a population of 191 residents. The beautifully restored houses are called salt box houses, with a two-story front and a one-story rear, and a […]
New-found-land
Newfoundland, coupled with Labrador, is the most easterly of Canada’s 10 provinces. St. John’s, the capital, is closer to Dublin, Ireland than to Houston. The province an island, reachable by ferry from the Canadian mainland. It has long winters and short summers. We don’t hear much about Canada in mainstream US news. Canadians, who […]
Going home? A reflection.
For the past 12 years, every third year or so, I have gotten a group together, mainly folks living in the Big Bend, and taken them on the 10-day tour of Scotland, my country of birth. This summer, due to the added interest of the Referendum on Scottish independence, I took two groups, one […]