Saturday, October 24, 2020

 

The Test of the Machine


Britt and I ride 400 miles into the Davis Mountains of West Texas to take a single photograph and I use the trip as an opportunity to wax poetic in self-important philosophization.


Thursday, October 01, 2020

 

Boomtown Relic: The Yates Hotel in Rankin, Texas


Clif and I take advantage of a late Indian Summer day to investigate an oil boomtown relic from the early 20th Century, the Yates Hotel in Rankin. Lawrence Welk, Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong and others all played here when the hotel was in its heyday. You never know what abandoned historical gem you'll find next out in the vast expanses of West Texas: