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Bob Hazy
Mar 6, 20221 min read
Tracy @ Denver
Today would have been Tracy's 60th birthday had cancer not intervened. Our plan was to move to Denver just before it all went sideways. ...
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Bob Hazy
Nov 7, 20211 min read
Spotted Wolf Canyon, UT
So perhaps I was a little bit hasty with the directionality thing. After all, in my last eastward transit of Utah, about hall of it was...
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Bob Hazy
Nov 4, 20211 min read
Bassackwards
You wouldn't think, necessarily, that it would matter what direction you travel a road, the scenery would be the same. Turns out, that's...
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Bob Hazy
Nov 4, 20211 min read
She's Gone Now
I've visited three sites now where I deposited Tracys ashes, and the rains have done their work. No trace of Tracy. There's some relief...
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Bob Hazy
Nov 4, 20211 min read
US-50: Re-Redux
You read that right: this is my third transit of the CA to CO section of US-50. To celebrate, mother nature gave me a rainbow over Lake...
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Bob Hazy
Oct 9, 20211 min read
Denver, CO
I've been in Colorado a couple weeks now, settling in. It's s lovely fall day and my brother and I spent it biking along Cherry Creek in...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
Rawlins Cemetery, Rawlins, WY
Rawlins Cemetery is where the fictional Les McGhee is laid to rest. It's exactly as I pictured it with cottonwoods and willows all over....
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Bob Hazy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
Rawlins, Wyoming
Rawlins looks like any small midwest town, only with western scrub dotting the landscape, and a relentless 25 mile an hour wind that...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
Wyoming of Trains
Of all the states, and I've been through all of them, Wyoming seems to have more train work than any other. It's constant and in all...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 19, 20211 min read
Green River, WY
I usually try to get "crap" out of my landscape pictures, but sometimes it actually makes the picture. Case in point, the image below. As...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 18, 20211 min read
When Earl's is A Denny's
About six years ago while I was writing McGhee in the Gloaming, I had my protagonist stop in a town in Utah named Toole (pronounced Too -...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 18, 20211 min read
Smoke over Nevada
East of Battle Mountain on I-80 there's a thick blanket of smoke from the California fires. Once again goodbye California.
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Bob Hazy
Sep 18, 20211 min read
A Shell
Sometimes a shell is just a shell. Sometimes it's a symbol. Sometimes, it's a reminder. Sometimes a portent. But every time, it is more...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Memories of CA: From Home to House
I'll be having my last moments tomorrow morning in a house that had been my home for 27 years. I've spent the last three months removing...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 16, 20211 min read
Memories of CA: On His Rocker
I wrote at least 80% of McGhee in the Gloaming sitting in this rocking chair in this exact spot. To date, it has been the highlight of my...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 15, 20211 min read
Memories of CA: The View
Traveling east from El Dorado Hills on US-50 one climbs a large hill before descending into the valley. As one crests that saddle they...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 15, 20211 min read
Memories of CA: KP International Market
What a crazy place this is: sprawling over the face of an entire strip mall, this single store contains endless bounties of Asian and...
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Bob Hazy
Sep 15, 20211 min read
Memories of CA:The Perfect Salad
Dos Coyotes in Folsom, California, has performed salad alchemy with its Yucatan Chicken Salad. It's warm (black beans) and cold...
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