If you like Irish literature and/or Flann O’Brien, you will like this news:

Tonight begins the first evening of the Republican National Convention, starring the reality-TV star Donny Trump. Expect hyperbolic claims, lies, and astounding quantities of bovine fecal matter–really, the greatest, the most everest in the history of the universe. Mounds and mounds of it. There will be misinformation, disinformation, and infomercials. It will be a phantasmagoria…

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Last Stretch to Gallup, NM.

A little advice, Amigos: avoid all roads in Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas. We’re in Shawnee, Oklahoma right now. Stayed the night. Last night we stayed in Birmingham, Alabama. Pretty country, but bad roads in the Deep South. Luckily, the typewriters seem to be safe. Several are strapped in seatbelts in the Corolla I’m hauling behind…

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Cibola National Forest

Today we decided to take a thirty-minute drive to our area of Cibola National Forest. Waiting for COVID-19 test results is for the birds. We needed to get out. Route 66 is a straight shot from the RV park to the forest. Most of what surrounds me are red rock mesas–which are beautiful–but I’m a…

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Planets, Winds, and Pandemics – Gallup, New Mexico

Tomorrow we’ll head to Walmart for COVID testing. We were able to schedule appointments in the morning. I am doing rather well, and her brother is also on the mend. She is experiencing some labored breathing and is getting bedrest. I wish I could take her symptoms from her. She is well, but unaccustomed to…

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