Brown Motion

Capital of New Mexico state is a 1,000 year old city founded by the Puebloans and located geographically in north central part of the state at an average altitude of 7,500 feet above sea level.  Mostly considered high desert it has recently been a bohemian hang out with artists and the like making home. Old town Santa Fe is architecturally reminiscent of both ancient Indian style adobe homes along with Spanish influenced places of worship. Below are some scenes - Loretto's chapel - stained glass Holy Water As if suspended in air this spiral staircase made of unknown wood is a wonder in the chapel Church of the famous Friar Francis of Assisi

Natural caves - Carlsbad Caverns in Carlsbad NM Home of ancient civilizations - Bandelier National Park north of Santa Fe Petroglyphs - Native art done in rock 500 years ago - just outside Albuquerque

Title for this narrative is a take off of my favorite food and travel show called 'No Reservations' where a NY based chef turned documentarian travels the planet in search of culture through food, sampling life through the eyes of the locals between delicious camera worthy bites after bites. We made a lot of reservations - as in the ones to stay in a hotel and then some - a week spent in the high desert country of New Mexico (NM).  A land of enchantment; scientific curiosity and mystery and reservations - lots of.  As in those tracts or acres of land that is designated Indian territory, the native kinds,  those that lived on said land for hundreds of years before white man set foot. So betwixt the reservations we drove across the mile high landscape (while Denver CO might boast the title for mile high city - most of NM state is at similar or higher elevations) undulating all the time with high peaks and canyons and caves and dunes, where we found old memories, those from f

I had to.  Sucker.  Yes - Went and caught Daniel Craig take on another installment of playing the famed Fleming character, the British Secret Service agent with a double O handle. 'Spectre' as in ghost of something in the past - is what Bond ends up chasing as he tries to find out his nemesis in the newest Sam Mendes directed movie.  Coming off the last edition called 'Skyfall' the director, actor pair are at it again - this time through streets of Roma, Tangier, Mexico City. The female cast is blah at best, not sure what is going on there - except I guess Naomie Harris, the British actress playing Moneypenny.  I think she is just getting started. The gadgets are getting less screen time but having Craig on screen is not a bad deal - I am sure people have variety of opinion on that. Plot lines are not quite exciting anymore either and some of the sequences appear predictable.  I suppose it is hard to keep topping off past adventures within and without the franc

I was perplexed by how many things were being sold next to nothing.  That I thought was something. It was also quite baffling to happen on nothing in the store.  Especially in America where you are guaranteed to find at least something. It appeared that aisle after aisle there was nothing of value yet nothing that one could not live without.  But the things right next to nothing were quite something. So some stores were selling their things next to nothing to drive foot traffic and possibly more sales.  They were perplexed when a lot of handicap traffic showed up without using their feet.  They just rolled right in to the aisles with next to nothing and went to town. They were visibly upset at being duped into a sale announcing items selling next to nothing only to find out that it is in fact hard locating said items given nothing is certain. Certainly they could have waited till something was actually advertised as being next to anything but not nothing.

If only people could invest in a vast array of poignant topics and questions like - 1. What does Puget Sound like?  Who is Puget? 2. Who Camps at David now?  Why David? 3. What was Hose Nee Mubarak's first name? 4.  Why is Jose pronounced Hose?  As in Hozay? 5.  Why is Hermes not pronounced like Germs?  And why does a grotesque bag that spells this name cost as much as a small car? 6. If a copier makes copies, why does a Coffier not make Coffee? 7. What is the difference between Men's and Women's perfume?  Who decides which is which?