Snow on Pensacola Beach

Kat and I usually try to spend the coldest month anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere on Pensacola Beach. In old Pensacola stands one of the world’s great seafood markets, Joe Patti’s. Normal winters here include at least a dozen sunny days fit for beachcombing, with a few warm enough to charbroil shrimp. But this year […]

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Chiricahua National Monument

You will see boulders big as a house, mostly already out of the side of the mountain, and while you know it’s been there forever, you get a sense that someday gravity’s pull will tire out the mountain’s grip and 50 tons of trouble will come tumbling down to crush everything in its path. We saw many cars drive by those big rocks, but we saw no one posing beneath one to create an image for his website.

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