H Paul Garland

There's no point in living if you can't feel alive. - James Bond

Sunday, February 04, 2007

Cathedral of Guadalupe

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- Close walking distance to my house in Holland there was a church built in 1,000 AD on top of some much older Roman ruins. - And about a mi...

Juarez Mexico

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- I used to have a friend who liked to say, "Its better to be lucky than smart." Sounds like the story of my life. - I got lucky t...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

Franklin Mountains

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- - The Franklin mountains in El Paso, Texas are the southernmost part of the Rocky mountains in America. The Franklins run North/South and ...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

Lordsburg, New Mexico

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I drove up to Safford, Arizona today. About 5 hours each way. - - Golly the desert is beautiful North of Lordsburg! - - - They have a great ...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Truth or Consequences

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- The other day I was up in Sierra County, New Mexico. I was visiting the town of Truth or Consequences. My French friend Christophe Guillam...
Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Hueco Tanks

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There are many thousands of rock art sites in the desert southwest. There are 7,564 rock art sites known to exist only in the state of Utah....

Pat Garrett

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Patrick Floyd Garrett was born in Alabama on June 5, 1850 and grew up in Louisiana. At the age of 17 he left home to move west to Texas beco...
Monday, January 15, 2007

Adobe

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Before the railroads reached the area around El Paso, Texas in the late 1800’s the options in construction building materials were fairly li...

Keeping Things In Perspective

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Many times in life things are not what they appear. Sometimes they are actually just the exact opposite of what they initially appear. Sales...

The Mighty Rio Grande

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The mighty Rio Grande river is the third longest river in the United States. It starts high up in the Rocky Mountains of North America and r...
Thursday, January 11, 2007

Dorris van Doren

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- I had an experience yesterday afternoon that was so special and spiritual that I actually got a little choked up. I didn’t quite start sni...
Sunday, January 07, 2007

Self Confessed Tree Hugger

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For years my conservative friends called me a Tree Hugger meaning it as a mild but good humored put-down. I saw this picture in the latest S...
Wednesday, January 03, 2007

Happiness Is.....

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- If you Goggle the above phrase you will get an amazing array of views. To Aristotle it was Self Sufficiency. To some it is seeing ?????? i...
Sunday, December 31, 2006

Unedited Video of Saddam Hanging

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- This is a link to the unedited video taken on a cellphone showing the worst dictator and war criminal in the last 100 years being hanged. ...
Saturday, December 30, 2006

Happy Hogmanay!

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the following is in part from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Hogmanay, which is pronounced with the main stress on the last syllable (ho...

Its A Run On Old Men Dying

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- It is now several years since the doctors diagnosed me with an incurable form of malignant cancer which affects the bone marrow, blood, an...

Uffington White Horse

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In the southern part of Britain, just a little bit north of Stonehenge and northeast of the massive Avebury stone circles just off Dragon Hi...
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Like the Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor, I went to Austin High in El Paso, Texas. I moved to California right after high school. Graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso in 1971 with honors. Worked on a master's degree, then to avoid going to Vietnam I joined the U.S. Army to be at 3rd Armored Div HQ in Frankfurt, Germany. I was there for almost 3 years. Bicycled and backpacked a lot in the Swiss Alps. Had some good times, saw some of the world, and grew up a little. I went to law school at U.T. Austin for a while, raised a family, got elected to a minor political position in El Paso, had 3 great wives, owned a Corvette then later a Prius, became a scuba diver, got my private pilot's license including multi-engine and instrument ratings, and lived in the Cajun country of Louisiana for a few years. For 15 years I was the general manager for a food procesing company in Europe. I really enjoyed living in Europe. I'm now retired, and to quote from Martin Luther King, I'm finally "free at last, free at last." I've moved out to the wonderful high desert in the Southwestern city of El Paso, Texas USA.
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