The Twilight Report - albuquerque

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Sun, 28 Oct 2007 10:38:00 GMT

Sunday 28 October 2007 10:38AM

from the 2007 New Mexican expedition

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tags: 66, 66 diner, albuquerque, new mexico, photo, route 66

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Wed, 29 Aug 2007 09:55:00 GMT

Wednesday 29 August 2007 9:55AM

Pecos

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First place I took my intrepid party to was Pecos. It isn’t really a full fledged hike, but a nice meander through the ruins. There is a lot of history wrapped up in the place and you get to see the early blending and confrontation of Spanish and native cultures. There are mountains around that always look to me as though they had a giant bear claw scratches in them. It was here that the party noticed that there are a lot of juniper trees in New Mexico, and I learned the Russian word for that tree.

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P.S. I am back in Australia now.

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tags: albuquerque, arena, chaco, coyote trail, falls trail, famous rocks, gorn, hike, kirk, los alamos, mountains, native, new mexico, north mesa, pecos, rio grande, sadia, south mesa loop, spanish, star trek, tsankawi, valle grande, vasquez rocks

Princess Bride

Wed, 8 Dec 2004 07:25:00 GMT

Wednesday 8 December 2004 7:25AM

The one time someone told me that I looked like somebody famous, the someone was a girl I met on the LAX to ABQ leg of a solo return from Australia trip about a couple of years before I graduated from High School. She said that I reminded her of Cary Elwes, who played the hero from The Princess Bride. I think that is a pretty good endorsement, don't you? I mean Westley gets the girl in the end and he has a wicked sense of humor.

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tags: abq, albuquerque, australia, cary elwes, lax, movie, princess bride