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Highway 62
In October of 2001, I flew from London to Los Angeles and drove a rental car through the desert states of the Southwest to Marfa, Texas, and back again. I slept in cheap motels and took photographs of what I saw along the way.
A Small Affair
This spring marked the one hundred and eighty-third anniversary of the Battle of the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas. That grisly event saw the demise of some six hundred Mexican troops and two hundred Texians, including one David Crockett, forty-nine-year-old backwoodsman and former congressman from Tennessee.
Transubstantiation at El Patio Cantina
And then there was creosote in the urinals. Maybe they had used urinal cakes before but now the pissers in El Patio Cantina were full of fresh cut scrub, pokey stems and so many tiny leaves and sometimes little yellow flowers as targets for your stream.