Only in New Mexico

Here is a good story on the Desert Rock Coal fired Generating Plant in Northwestern New Mexico.

Okay, you have done something to make the oil and gas industry happy.  It may have been necessary to lease off shore federal holdings.  Ther...

I think Mayor Berry is right in calling the state Transportation Commission on their ban of the use of traffic light cameras on state roads....

It is always nice to get home and take up a routine again.  Especially after a high energy vacation.  We pretty much lazed around all weeken...

Did you ever get invited somewhere and then be forced to sit through a slide show of a vacation?  It would be nice if there were an easy way...

We had a great time after entering the harbor in Rio De Janeiro.  We did not stay in the city to see the regular sites, like the Christ the ...

This is our last stop before disembarking the Veendam in the morning.  We were on one of the first tenders off the ship this morning since i...

We spent the day in Ilhabela, one of the larger islands off the coast of Brazil.   It is a getaway for residents of Sao Palo and its flor...

Shipping Containers.   Let me tell you about shipping containers.   After five cruises around the world we have decided there is one or t...

We spent today in Paranagua, Morrettes, and Antonino in coastal Brazil.    This is real jungle around here and we lucked out by having v...

This is a Sea Day on the Veendam.   It is about as calm as I have ever seen the open ocean.   We are about forty miles off the coast of   ...

Stewart Udall was a guy that should be imitated by a lot of conservationists today.  He always found a way to get things done and our countr...

We had a really pleasant day in Punta del Este, Uruguay.   I think this may be the main playground for the obscenely rich in the world, ...

We spent our second day in Buenos Aires bumming around with Rachel Sanderoff.   She took us down a secluded alleyway near the Congresso t...

Rachel Sanderoff showed us the town last night.  We started a famous bar "AFederal" and then went to a steak  house for Argentini...

I think the taxi drivers here are really unemployed nuclear physicists.   They manage to get their cabs in between the molecules of the ...

We just pulled into port in Buenos Aires and will leave the ship soon.  We have two full days here so we can see the sights.  My friend Bria...

We spent St. Patrick’s day in Montevideo just walking around the old area of town which is just a few hundred feet from where we docked.  ...

Very high winds last night and big waves.  Like a roller coaster.  I am lucky it doesn't affect me.  Today we have another day at sea.  ...

walk around the ship.....eat....do three cross words.....walk around....read....eat.....drink....get a facial.....eat.