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Riding the Border: Lajitas Trails in Big Bend, Texas
From Horsehead Crossing on the Pecos River, the Comanche Trail runs south to Fort Stockton / Comanche Springs and there, if you veer...
Horsehead Crossing, Pecos River, TX - Oct '24
Sometimes you must ride through the bones of the past to see the pure sparkling brilliance of the future. It seems such a simple thing,...
Book excerpt: Lake Arrowhead State Park, Texas - Dec 2020
I dreamt of a coyote last night - trotting along beside me. As oblivious to my presence as I am enamored with hers. A big, scruffy,...
Oh Mesa de Anguila, you slippery, slidey thing you
I swing the saddle up, lean into the horse and gaze toward Mesa de Anguila - one of the least visited areas of Big Bend National Park -...
This ride's for you
Big Bend National Park, Texas The first thing that changed was my hands. Short but clean nails are now dirty and ragged. Rings no longer...
Lake Amistad, Texas
We drive through the valles and arroyos of west Texas, the flatlands and mesas, the ridges and mountains climbing tall into clear blue...
Christmas Mountains & The Bad Rabbit of Terlingua Ranch
(as published in the Winter 2024 Cenizo Journal) This is the country they call life. A place where you can be yourself - unencumbered by...
El Capitan, Guadalupe Mountains Nat'l Park
Sometimes I drive until I find myself anew. Casing the southwest as if the dirt will scrub me clean. To the desert and mountains of New...
Book Excerpt: Shaffer Bend Recreation Area – LCRA Park, Marble Falls, TX
We follow the dusty, white caliche toward water downshifting along the way, driving slowly through the bends and curves of the road. The...
Lost and Found in Monahans
(as published in the Fall 2023 Cenizo Journal) This is a story of a horse and the girl who loves him. I lie back on the picnic bench and...
Fort Richardson State Park, Texas
At night the ghosts come out. They roam the corridors of my mind and wander the graveyard of my soul - the parts I thought I’d put to bed...
Lake Meredith National Recreation Area
I saw a shooting star last night against the canvas of the night sky. One brief flash among a backdrop of many as it was trying hard to...
Sea Rim State Park, Texas
The beach lies perpetually in motion. A stretch wide and long as a striped asphalt runway. Sun glistens off the wet sand and with each...
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