I’ve had a lot of fun hearing from people who saw my picture in AAA’s magazine Highroads. It was a feature article about first cars, and since I have all my pictures, I was armed and ready with one from 1976.
My favorite email came from my old Orme friend Robin Sprague, who remembers that car very well.
“I was leafing through my AAA magazine that I got yesterday. I check it for neat road trips before I recycle.
I flipped open to a page and said to my daughter – this car looks like my friend Dan’s car that we took cross country!!! And then… I looked closely and there you are – with tagline/caption about that 1976 cross country trip!!
What a hoot!!”
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Our daughter came home from college last weekend, and guess who was the first to know? Yep, our dog Alley.
It was almost like the move 101 Dalmatians where a bunch of dogs relay the message about the puppies. Somehow our dog got word out of California that Torrie was coming home and by golly she was there when the car pulled in the driveway.
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I took a rare sick day on Monday because I had the worst headache I’ve had since 1973. But by the afternoon, I was feeling bored and better, so I started digitizing some old photos. One of those is of my brother and nephew waiting on the observation deck at the Columbus airport.
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One of Warren Jeffs’ followers, a guy named Merrill Jessop, was recently quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune as saying that the actions of Texas law officers at the the YFZ Ranch during the last week are reminiscent of the kind of police activities one might expect in Stalinist Russia or Nazi German and in many ways I think that’s a great analogue.
I would, however, make one distinction.
Instead of tagging the “Russian” and “German” label on Texas cops, Merrill Jessop should really pin it on himself and his pals out at their YFZ pad.
Don’t take my word for it. Read the best selling book, “Escape” by Merrill’s ex-plural wife Carolyn Jessop. It’s powerful stuff!
The other night on CNN I did something that I don’t think I’ve ever done before. I called someone a “jerk” on the air. I called Merrill Jessop, Warren Jeffs’ lackey and the head honch over at the old YFZ, a jerk and a brute and a guy who should join his polygamous prophet in the pokie.
And today I would just like to say that I stand by that statement!
Mike Watkiss
I’m back on the road, shooting more stories for the May road trip, and yes I still loved every minute of it.
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You gotta love a morning show that not only broadcasts live from a saloon, but has fans already sucking down beer at six in the morning. But that’s why we love Crown King. It’s unique.
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I did a little driving around after out show in Camp Verde today, and I saw one of the strangest things I’ve ever seen. A sheep, staying step to step with a horse as the horse was grazing. (Click the picture for a better look.)
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I was back on the dirt roads this morning, but this time I took a road that actually went somewhere. After packing up in Payson, I headed north to Strawberry, then cut down to the Fossil Creek Road….45 miles of dirt with almost no other traffice. Beautiful.
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