Wednesday, September 23, 2026

Four Corners

As mentioned in my previous post, I went to the northwest corner of New Mexico.  This is where it meets the northeast corner of Arizona, the southeast corner of Utah, and the southwest corner of Colorado.  The Four Corners Monument is reached by a road that connects to U.S. route 160 in New Mexico, and is run by the Navajo Nation.  As you walk in from the parking lot, which is south of the monument, here is what you might see.  The flags include one from each state.

Salmon Ruins

Today I ventured away from my temporary home base in Santa Fe to the northwest corner of New Mexico - quite literally.  On the way, I stopped at the Salmon Ruins, which I first visited on an archaeological tour in 2005.  This site was built around 1090 AD by people from the Chaco culture, occupied later by San Juan Puebloans, damaged by fire, subsequently abandoned, and later homesteaded by a family named Salmon.  I'm pretty sure that unlike the similar word for a fish, the "l" in their name is not silent.  Part of their homestead is still here, protected by a metal structure.

Tuesday, September 22, 2026

A Walk In Santa Fe

This morning, I decided to take a walk and get some exercise here in Santa Fe, Mexico, which is now my disclosed location.  I went to a place called Historic Fort Marcy, but it doesn't have anything that looked like a fort, or remnant thereof.  It has a walkway leading up from this street-side entrance.

Monday, September 21, 2026

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Abó

After visiting the Quarai and Gran Quivira units of the Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, I returned to the town of Mountainair and proceeded west on U.S. route 60 to the Abó unit.  The main structure of the unit is the ruins of a church and adjacent pueblo ruins.  This is a view from the unit's parking lot.

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Gran Quivira

After visiting the Quarai unit of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument, I got onto New Mexico route 55 and proceeded southward back to the town of Mountainair and then continued for about 25 more mile to the Gran Quivira unit of the monument.  A ramp leads from its parking up to a small visitor center and then to the large structure seen here.

Salinas Pueblo Missions - Quarai

Today I ventured out of my undisclosed location and visited all three units of Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument.  I started by going to the monument's visitor center in Mountainair, New Mexico, near the intersection of U.S. route 60 and New Mexico route 55.  Going north on NM 55 brought me to the small town of Punta de Agua and the Quarai unit.

I know that this post and others from this trip are very late in the day.  It's not just the time zone difference, but I took so many pictures that I had to recharge my camera before I could transfer them to my computer.  So please forgive me, or just go to bed and read these posts in the morning.  Anyway, here's the Quarai church, most likely built by the local natives under the direction of Spanish missionaries.

Sunday, September 20, 2026

Greetings From New Mexico

Earlier today I arrived at my latest undisclosed location in New Mexico.  Like I did when I visited Taos 10 years ago, I flew into Albakoykee and then toyned left to reach Interstate 25.  I know this post seems late, but out here it's only a few minutes before 8 p.m.  Naturally, I plan to see the sights and provide reports.  See all youz soon.

Saturday, September 19, 2026

Saturday Stories

On a warm and cloudy Saturday, here are some things going on:

From FrontpageMag, America does not need the Kennedy Center.

From Townhall, liberal media outlets lash out at President Trump's press crackdown.

From The Washington Free Beacon, "that's no moon".

From the Washington Examiner, according to CENTCOM, oil and gas shipments through the strait of Hormuz have hit a six-month high.

From American Thinker, Trump's new agreement with Denmark and Greenland checks all the right boxes.

From NewsBusters, PBS criticizes Trump's changes to the naturalization process, but omits how war criminals were previously allowed through.

From Snouts in the Trough, is Pakistani-educated Dr. Amir Bhatti improving the U.K.'s NHS?

From Gatestone Institute, U.S. President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu are trying to stop the takeover of Western civilization.

From The American Conservative, the Trump administration's use of paid influencers is nothing new.

From BizPac Review, why the Chief Twit, a.k.a. the world's richest man, is living in a motor home.

From the Daily Caller, Virginia Democrats want abortion in the state's constitution, but many of the state's Catholics could stand in the way.

From the New York Post, a federal judge temporarily blocks the University of California from enforcing parts of its policy about "misgendering".

From Breitbart, the chief executive of the Council of Fashion Designers of America resigns after being filmed restraining two PETA protesters.

From Newsmax, Denmark and Greenland are "cautiously optimistic" about the aforementioned agreement with Trump.

And from Fox News, a Virginia beauty queen becomes the first married woman and the first mother to win the Miss USA pageant.  (via Page Six)

Friday, September 18, 2026

Friday Phenomena

On a warm and rainy Friday, here are some things going on:

From National Review, one way or another, change will come to Cuba.

From FrontpageMag, CAIR imposes blasphemy rules on a school board member in my state.

From Townhall, why Senator Fake Cherokee (D-MA) objects to Fox News buying Roku.

From The Washington Free Beacon, Yale University President Laurie McInnis gets an F.

From the Washington Examiner, the E.U. floats more "associate members" besides Canada, which one of its diplomats calls "bull[bleep]".

From The Federalist, the backlash to actress Sydney Sweeney's ad for the sports trading market Novig exposes the hypocrisy of liberal feminists.

From American History, a long history of doomsday predictions that did not become true, but there's one which will.

From NewsBusters, CNN's inconsistency about women showing skin.

From Canada Free Press, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gives Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney a participation trophy.

From TeleSUR, the current El Niño could reduce the Panama Canal's revenue by up to $400 million in 2027.

From Snouts in the Trough, why to some businesses never learn when going woke makes them broke?

From EuroNews, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy launches the "Carpathian Eight" alliance, pledging cooperation on security, energy and trade.

From Free West Media, how Morocco became Israel's most important security and defense partner in Africa.

From ReMix, a French military chaplain disparages leftists, to which soldiers applaud.  (If you read French, read the story at L'Indépendant.)

From Balkan Insight, protesters demonstrate in Pristina, Kosovo over the verdicts against four former Kosovo Liberation Army leaders.

From The North Africa Post, Morocco is reportedly planning to acquire Israeli LORA missiles.

From The New Arab, is change coming to Tunisia?

From The Jerusalem Post, President Ahmed al-Sharaa is "secretly" building up Syria's military.

From Gatestone Institute, three things about which Israelis are concerned, which are not Iran, Hamas or Hezbollah.

From The Daily Signal, Democrats go to the left coast to seek campaign cash.

From The American Conservative, can President Trump alone fix the upcoming midterm elections?

From The Western Journal, European leaders reportedly panic over U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth's plans to withdraw some U.S. troops from the region.

From BizPac Review, a Democratic operative shares a "shady as [bleep]" for senatorial candidate James Talarico (D-TX) in an undercover video.

From the Daily Caller, Democratic congresscritters demand a federal investigation into "modern-day lynchings" that really aren't.

From Breitbart, director Greta Gerwig and Netflix get blasted for casting actress Meryl Streep as the voice of Aslan the Lion in the Chronicles of Narnia movie The Magician's Nephew.

From Newsmax, an ICE officer pleads not guilty to charges that he lied to the FBI about a nonfatal shooting in Minneapolis.

And from the New York Post and the "you're fired!" department, Trump kicks CNN, MS NOW and Politico reporters out of the White House press booth.

Thursday, September 17, 2026

Thursday Things For Constitution Day

On a warm and cloudy Thursday, on the anniversary of the creation of the U.S. Constitution, here are some things going on:

From National Review, no, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. did not make your food dangerous.

From FrontpageMag, the collapse of feminism has begun.

From Townhall, the rule of law should not be based on "feelings".

From The Washington Free Beacon, a Palestinian journalist group manipulates Western organizations "to pass off terrorists as journalists".

From the Washington Examiner, the aerospace company Lockheed Martin boasts of faster production of interceptor missiles.

From The Federalist, a law firm files a suit against Dearborn, Michigan alleging religious discrimination in favor of Islam.

From American Thinker, "in praise of constitutions" on Constitution Day.

From NewsBusters, seven new crimes allegedly committed by illegal aliens that ABC, CBS and NBC are ignoring.

From Canada Free Press, the hypocrisy of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney's quest for foreign investment.

From TeleSUR, Brazil leads the overall medal count at the Santa Fe 2026 South American Games.

From EuroNews, Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman warns that AI could create a "silicon species" that could rival humans.

From ReMix, 74 percent of sex-crime suspects in Spain's Basque Country are not Spanish.  (If you read Spanish, read the story at The Objective, which despite the English name, is in Spanish.)

From Balkan Insight, Romanian President Nicuşor Dan nominates europarliamentcritter Siegfried Mureşan to form a new government.

From The North Africa Post, the Moroccan company OCP Group and the Mohammed VI Polytechnic University honor female farmers at an international gathering in the city of Benguerir.

From The New Arab, Saudi Arabia plans to mine uranium from a recently discovered deposit.

From Gatestone Institute, why allowing Hamas to participate in upcoming Palestinian elections would be a horrible mistake.

From The Daily Signal, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins responds to concerns about AI from rural Americans.

From The American Conservative, Secretary of State Marco Rubio shores up U.S. allies in South America.

From The Western Journal, headlines like "hottest summer ever" are not science.

From BizPac Review, former Vice President Harris plans to stump for senatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D-Mich).

From the Daily Caller, the University of Washington reportedly scrubbed a Pentagon-funded professors ties to a Chinese company.

From the New York Post, the top 20 baby names during the 1990s have plummeted in popularity since then.

From Breitbart, as the aforementioned Mark Carney addresses the European Parliament, chants of "USA!" break out.

From Newsmax, Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) blocks Senator John Kennedy's (R-LA) proposed legislation that would require tech companies to develop a "kill switch" for AI.

And from SFGate, fans at San Francisco Giants games are perturbed about mysteriously shrinking chicken tenders.