June 2, 2005
Ambassador Hotel
Amarillo, Texas

Good visit to Amarillo. Spent some quality time with Heathers family, finally met her brother and his family.
Amarillo surprised me with great photo opportunities both people and places. Could spend a few weeks here working.
Did a good portrait of Lighting McDuff, a local sculptor, very interesting man and very great work.

Getting a bit crazy thinking about the Polish Show.

Photos have to wait until we return…….. have to catch a Plane

June 28,2005
Back Lot Tom’s RV Service
Albuquerque, NM

Spent the last eternity sitting in Santa Fe trying to get the remodel done. It just would not work and I finally left Santa Fe with much less than I had hoped for. In many ways it an improvement and we sure tried hard but it no way solves the space issues. Along the way :
The box separated from the trailer
The brake controller broke
I found the stabilizer chains were wearing out
The truck needed new tires
Oh and the gas burner pilot light thingy for the ice box broke. So I how have no gas.
And Heather left on vacation with her Parents.

Randy and Vanessa, of Action RV drop everything to come over and install a new break controller. In my search to find someone to refasten the box back on the frame I discovered Tom’s RV Service in Alb. So after many disappointments in Santa Fe the old airstream and I limped off into the sunset toward Tom’s RV and the hope that some of my dreams would be fulfilled.

Now Tom is quite a man. As I sit in the office waiting for it all to come together I hear him on the phone. Folks call in from the road and if he can’t help them he gets their number and makes call to find the help they need then calls them back. Says it’s easier for him to do it then the out of towners. This while his shop is super busy and he dose not have the time, yet he makes it all with a smile.

Tom’s address is:
136 Moon St
Albquerque, NM 87123
Cell: 505-401-3407
tomsrvservice@yahoo.com

Tom was able to get a welder to stop all he was doing and re connect the box. As well as fixing the links on the stabilizer bars, as he was doing this I got the new tires. The welder had to cut up the belly pan to accomplish this and Irish was right there at Toms to patch all the holes the welder had to make as well as a few we’d acquired along the road. Tom could not fix the gas problems but found a salvage yard in Denver that thought they had the part I needed. Next stop is Boulder to pick up Jesse for the trek back to Connecticut so it was perfect and off I went. Looks like the solution is near at hand and I want the trailer to be together for Jesse and my trip east. The benches still have blue tape as I have not finished the staining and nothing is put away but all that is okay cause we’ll have gas!
Tomorrow morning I head off.

Tom and Irish

Santa Fe Skies

Santa Fe Skies 2

Santa Fe Skies 3

June 30, 2005
Deserted RV Park
Somewhere in Nebraska

Finally got back on the road today. Could not find gas fixture and by noon said to hell with it, the rest of the repairs and responsibility- it’s time to travel again. Picked up Jesse in Boulder and we had lunch with his buddy Milton then on to interstate 70 for a fast 70 mile getaway before slowing down as we turned off onto route 34 to start exploring. Found great clouds all across eastern Colorado and they, as well as the landscape just got better as we neared Nebraska. Diner was dairy queen, as we have no gas, so no stove nor icebox. Tonight is a dry camp at a remote out of service rv park. Tomorrow onward to Omaha and then meander toward mom and dad’s after some minor reorganizing in the morning
Hokahey ain’t life grand, as hunter Thompson was fond of saying “when the going gets weird the weird turn pro”…or something weird like that. It’s getting hard to remember such things.

Home sweet Home

Only in Nebraska

East of Yuma Colorado

Still East of Yuma

Downtown Akron Colorado

Jesse east of Yuma

Jesse and Helicoptor east of Yuma

July 4,2005
KOA Kampground
Granger Indiana

Happy independence day!
Drove the most awesome FLX Bus yesterday in Minnesota. Power steering and automatic transmission. Must be getting old cause those two things really impressed me. Spent a wonderful afternoon with Rick and his wife in Jenifer They own the bus and really don’t want to sell her but…. I would of liked to have stayed a day or two and worked out the detail of the bus but I’m running down the road to Connecticut and Mom and Dads so it will have to wait.
After a peaceful day in the Minnesota hills we hit Chicago and the world went to hell. Do not run I-90 through Chicago, just about the time you get a bit use to the traffic and totally rude people the tolls start. Seemed like every two miles another $2.50. Must of cost us close to $25.00 to do about 30 miles of the poorest slowest roads in the country.
Someone asked me about my doing urban landscapes. I don’t think so, fer sure not in Chicago!
Had planned to stop and see Scott and his friends in a small town outside Detroit but due to the bus stop will not be able to do that. Spoke to him this am and his friend Stephan is in a rock-a-billy band and they are on their way to play at the local country fair. Sounds like a great day and a great photo op.
And I opened the computer this morning to the message
“Continuing Failure”
“hit any key to continue”
Happy independence day.

DMK Henry Rick Jenifer and Jesse