Colorado

Southern Colorado is Very Weird

Monte Vista NWR

A portion of Monte Vista NWR in Rio Grande County, Colorado

One supposes the people who live here (?) don’t feel that way, of course. You should have seen the route we took to get to this spot, too. Oh my God. A dirt road wide enough to land two 747s side-by-side, the kind of place where no one has water to spare for trees or [...]

Conejos River Valley in Colorado

Conejos River Valley from Rt. 17 between Chama, NM and Antonito, CO

“Look! Look! There they are!” The llamas were grazing the green grass and scrub close to the road. I didn’t have time to slow down and we whizzed right by, but at least we saw them. (Tony’s llamas, by the way. A guy named Tony owns the ranch there on the other side of the [...]

Colorado Beans

weird truck seen in Taos, NM

Shot one-handed with a DSLR while driving (don’t try this at home)…

You have to admit, you don’t see something like this very often. I’ve been around quite a long time, and I can safely say I’ve never gone down the road behind a Colorado beans truck. For that matter, I don’t know if I’ve ever eaten any Colorado beans or why I’d want to, but now [...]

Road Report: Rocky Ford, CO

cool old guy in electric wheelchair

I like this guy a lot. Ride on, dude.

A good place for someone I know, I thought, as we went driving through. Lots of cheap housing, plenty of meth and cantaloupes, and when you get old, you can motor back and forth across the street in your electric wheelchair until you’re run down by a teenaged idiot in a big 4WD talking on [...]

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