Bobcats Meet You at the Entrance Station: Part 2 of Heading Out West

Out of Monahans, West Texas we dipped due south, across the Pecos River and up the Stockton Plateau. Past the Glass Mountains, the Wood Hollows, and, beyond Marathon, we followed the old Great Comanche Trail toward the “big bend”, that portion of the Texas/Mexico border where the Rio Grande’s flow abruptly changes direction from southwest [...]

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Heading Out West: Part 1

I grew up back east. I accept no responsibility for that fact. It was an accident of birth.   But after nearly three decades of Manhattan-centric living, my soon-to-be husband, a native Los Angelino, and I fell victims to President Ronald Reagan’s 1981 Great Recession. Stripped of our jobs, we loaded our worldly goods into [...]

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