May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 12 “Las Vegas was ruined when the corporations took over from the mafia. Everything’s now too expensive. They’re overwhelmed by the drug trade and gang related crime and shootings,” -ALA MAR’s resident manager (I share his feelings for Vegas’s early 70s version) A flight of pelicans headed south to […]

Fleurs Printanières Dans l’Empire We were sitting out in W’s garden with happy hour drink in hand as the work week’s final sunset approached amongst some very early blooming vines and flowers. See sampling above! -Marlow Copyright 2023 My Aisle Seat www.vicsocotra.com

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 11 “The Seed Collector of Oatman” Based upon a dirt biker’s advice during a Day 10 gas stop in Flagstaff, we continued from Kingman via Oatman en route Needles California as a prestage to crossing the Mojave desert on I40. We left Kingman at 0700 without breakfast as we […]

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 10 “Whoa” -English translations of German and French tourists’ reactions to the Grand Canyon Trip’s third and final breakfast waitress at Mike & Rhonda’s won the roadtrip’s snappy comeback award to Steve’s daily waitress/server baiting. We’ll really miss THE PLACE, the food and its folks. We entered the Grand […]

Gentle Readers, Marlow contributes a recollection of an America we knew in a place now ensnarled in new turmoil. It seems appropriate this morning to contrast with other events. Some here in the Writer’s Section had experience with air defense technical issues long ago. So the story of mysterious objects being blasted in the sky- […]

Editor’s Note: There is a confluence of interesting events today- a sporting event seemingly cast larger than those of the past, Add some uncertainty about the hemispheric air defense system and this morning has a distinct flush of energy. It is appropriate to channel some of it through Marlow’s view of the American Road. Installment […]

Editor’s Note: Morning! If this is your first venture into Marlow’s American Road, please join him this morning in a plunge into the American Southwest. This adventure was a couple decades ago. It reflects the change in our lives with drama. – Vic My bike, it no start. Damn. Damn. Triple Damn. Battery was barely […]

After a great breakfast at Harry’s Roadhouse — chili’d up burrito and a lemon buttered poppy seed Belgian waffle with raspberries and blackberries on top — we visited one last aunt on our way to Pagosa Springs Colorado via Taos New Mexico. She was a fountain of info, life, and family stories as she fed […]

Easy riding trip along the T2 (Turquoise Trail), up Sandia (Spanish for watermelon since it looks reddish with dark seed spots) Ridge for photos and back to Santa Fe via other great roads and scenes. The Ridge ride was full of challenging twistiness, switchbacks, no traffic to a 10,700 foot vista. A Steel Forest of […]

May 2001 Detour Version 1.0 Day 4 “No Livestock Unloading in the Pet Exercise Area. Corral at the End of the Rest Area.” -Sign at an eastern New Mexico I-40 rest stop At other Day 4 rest stops only “livestock feeding” was “prohibited on any concreted areas.” Revelation #2: Saw the earth’s curve today in […]