It's Life Jim, But Not As We Know It

Getting back into the swing, man. Blogger.com seems to be too... working like a champ this morning.

On another note, what can possibly be the antidote for traffic in Los Angeles? It just can't be healthy to repeat "You F*cking A*shole" over and over again in your head and out loud. SOL! (swearing out loud, and shit out of luck)

But I digress...

So here are some pics from New Mexico. After driving through Texas, I went to the Carlsbad Caverns. Really unbelievable. You take an elevator 75 STORIES down into the desert. Once you're down there, you explore parts of the the 35 miles of caverns where hundreds of thousands of bats live (part time - they had migrated to Mexico for the winter).

Guadalupe Mountains on the long desert to the caves:


Cactus, cactus, scrub brush, coyote, mouse, cactus... surprise! giant hole in the desert:


The Pit of Despair:


Stalagtites (hold on tite), Stalagmites (mite poke you in the butt):


The mega-column:


Stay tuned (or subscribe to the RSS feed, if you don't want to check in here for weeks, I'm sorry!).. FOR my review of the Roswell UFO Museum!

Weather Report Suite

In San Francisco, it's 55 and cloudy.

In Portland, it's 58 and partly cloudy.

In Seattle, it's 55, cloudy.

In Anchorage, it's 11 degrees. Cloudy.

In Fairbanks, it's -8. Cloudy.

In La Crosse, it's 23. Snowing.

In Baton Rouge, it's 62 and sunny.

Greenville, MS is 60 and sunny.

Houston is partly cloudy, 63.

I'm back in California. It's sunny and around 70.

From Alaska in September to Louisiana in November, I followed Autumn's arrival and watched the wave of change, that blaze of color that burned up the leaves and left them dangling until the winds came and stripped the trees bare. Nothing subtle about it. I loved seeing it.

They say California doesn't have seasons, which may relatively be true. But the Santa Ana winds are on their way.

That picture above is in Mississippi on the Natchez Trace near Vicksburg, November 12, 2007.