Hidden among a typical Southwestern landscape of mountains and desert wilderness is New Mexico's unique City of Rocks. In fact, until reaching the top of a rise in the access road, no one approaching the site for the first time would even have an idea that this...
The San Antonio River Walk is saving me from obesity. I've been eating my way across the city for four days now, enjoying the best of San Antonio's food during the annual Culinaria celebration. The events have included elaborate lunch and dinner affairs, a Mexican...
Today I donned an apron, toque and rubber gloves for an intense training session at the CIA. The mission: South American ceviche. I'm not at Langley, but in San Antonio, at the 'other' CIA — the Culinary Institute of America. The organization is recognized as one of...
Sometimes a good meal can take you places. Today, brunch transported me from Texas into the colonial heart of Mexico. I'm in San Antonio for a few days doing research for an upcoming magazine article. It just so happens that my trip coincides with Culinaria, a...
If you haven't been to Las Vegas recently, you may be unaware that the monumental traffic jams that formerly accumulated on U.S. 93 at Hoover Dam are now a thing of the past. In the fall of 2010, the extremely impressive Mike O'Callaghan-Pat Tillman Memorial Bridge...
One of the country's most "off-the-beaten-track" scenic treasures is Big Bend National Park in Texas. Unlike many park service units, Big Bend is not a place that one can just "stop by" along the way to another destination. It's just not "on the way" to anywhere...
In January, I decided to visit some of the lesser-known, but truly outstanding national parks in the Southwest. One of these is the world-famous Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico, via a scenic seven-mile spur road from U.S. 62/180 at White's City. By far, the most...
I decided to make an overnight stop at Texas' Guadalupe Mountains National Park, which, although authorized by Congress back in 1964, is still one of our least known parks. In fact, my motor home was the only one there that night, although a few more hardy souls than...
The next stop on my tour of back roads was also in southeastern Colorado. Bent's Old Fort National Historic Site is only a two-hour drive from Sand Creek and lies between Las Animas and La Junta. Here visitors have the opportunity to explore an excellent...
While traveling in December from St. Louis back to my current home in Southwestern Utah, I decided to take the "back roads" and visit four, lesser-known sites administered by our National Park Service, including one of the most recent additions to the over 390 parks...
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