Author: Robert Kimberly

Summer Road Trip Sighting: Casa De Azucar – El Paso, TX

Drive to El Paso, Texas. Go here. See the House of Sugar. Marvel at its beauty and craft. In the mean time, read more about it here.

Roadtrip # 2: Turning Day into Nighttime, Turning Night into Daytime

“Viva Las Vegas, turning day into nighttime,
Turning night into daytime.
If you see it once
you’ll never be the same again”

This blog was created while living in Vegas, and the name reflects an infection I got while in the city.  Driving the desert or flying into the Vegas valley, if you see it at night there’s nothing like it.  It’s not a good city or a healthy one.  But I dig the place and was unscathed when we left.  Now we are going back again.  To see good friends, a wedding and some old haunts.

And finally, a game that the city deserves: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: The Board Game. A quote from Hunter S. Thompson’s book of the same name:

“The trunk of the car looked like a mobile police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls . . . Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.”

Roadtrip #1, Atlanta: Fun, But Thwarted

The first of two Summer roadtrips was just completed this evening. 

Atlanta was a success in the food and lovely-city departments, but a bust with the attractions.  We both noted how gorgeous the city was, something I had forgotten in the time since we left it.  But in that time, a favorite vintage antiques place went out of business and the Waffle House Museum was closed the day we rolled by.  So, I consoled myself when we went to the world’s largest aquarium. 

And Away We Go: One the Road

 

Like most trips, we were held up as scantily-clad women demanded to join us in our travels.  As any blogger knows, groupies can be a nusiance.  My wife shooed them away and we are now on our way.

Tales of the road to follow.

Best Photographs from the Federal Government: Eat and Sleep in a Wig Wam

Just in time for summer roadtrip season, the Library of Congress posted this lovely picture of a still-standing roadside attraction on their Flickr page.


village10, originally uploaded by Zapgun.

From the Wigwam Village No. 2 motel’s website…

“… Wigwam Village Inn #2 was completed in 1937 in Cave City, and five more were built over time in Alabama, Florida, New Orleans, California, and Arizona. From the beginning, the Wigwam Villages were gathering places with an atmosphere of old-time neighborliness. The community area at the center of the circle of wigwams seemed to invite people to come and talk. Nowadays, our playground at the center of the teepees invites young folks to play and our new 16’x16′ “Misting Deck” is a great way to cool off on a hot summer day – regardless of your age!…

…Of the seven original Wigwam Villages, only three remain: #2 in Cave City, Kentucky, #6 in Holbrook, Arizona. and #7 in Riallto, California…”

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Wigwam Village No. 2, Cave City, Kentucky
601 North Dixie Hwy
Cave City, Kentucky 42127
Google Map

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7 more Best Photographs from the Federal Government blog posts.

So, What's In Florence, Italy?

Because that’s where we’ll be spending a week this coming winter. I tend to like places where the creative impulses of the eccentric are encouraged. So is there anything weird or will I have to settle for stunning works of art and gorgeous, historic architecture?

My hit-or-miss research on the subject:

So far, not gleaning a whole lot from the above sites. Personal musings aside, I can’t find much about the actual city. I hoping to fire off some emails asking the folks mentioned about their fair city.