Robin McLean

THEY ALL SAY THEY LIKE IT

MORE SOON.

ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, COLORADO:

On the last morning in Boulder I followed
a raccoon
it waddled down Pearl.
I though she would run into the street.
She dropped into the sewer.

The car was a tight squeeze - Read More 

1. Take close up shots of the Cosmonaut.

2. Eat sweet potato and pineapple pancakes with the Cosmonaut.

3. Walk around lakes and pet dogs, wonder if your dog will remember you or accept the Cosmonaut.

4. Discuss Cajun food with sales clerk in shoe store who does not ask about the Cosmonaut.

5. Answer questions about the Cosmonaut asked by eager strangers at Tea Rooms with 103 teas on the menu.

7. Drink water to fend of elevation sickness since Boulder is at 5363 feet, which is nothing for Cosmonauts.

8. Discuss the gender of the Cosmonaut with trusted companions, and how the gender of the Cosmonaut was discovered with same.

9. Tour the area, assess recent flood damage, waves at friendly people in cottages, pass shops called "The Fit Shall Inherit" which will include any Cosmonaut.

10. Cruise up to the Continental Divide with the Cosmonaut.

10. Get out of the big city, go Louisville in the rain for brussel sprout salad and meet with small children interested in jet packs, Darth Vader and Cosmonauts.

10. 10. Pick up teenage relatives at the airport who are happy to accept with the Cosmonaut and the illegal AirB&B we're camped out in.

See the Cosmonaut in person at the BOULDER BOOK STORE tonight, June 25 @ 7:30. Read More 

Gloria: "That moose is ok, but I prefer them with big horns."

Robin: "Don't be sexist."

Gloria: "I just like those big horns."

Robin: "They are not horns. They're antlers.

Gloria: "Whatever."

Robin: "What do you think of Boulder?"

Gloria: "Spectacular mountains, much cooler than El Paso."

Robin says: "The air!"

Gloria: "The green! The Trader Joe's!"

Robin: "Let's go."

Gloria: "Let's see this  Read More 

The departure from EL PASO was pushed back and back. Hot. 101.

I 10 to I 25, though Las Cruses, Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Lamy, Las Vegas, Raton.

Pink lightning in the far off distance.

A few sprinkles rain.

Hummus on Triskets.

Fruit stabbed with a toothpick.

I think I can. I think I can.

FIXED. Mystery problem remained a mystery but was worth $168.53.

BOULDER, COLORADO HERE WE COME.

June 23, 2015, Reading INNISFREE POETRY BOOKSTORE AND CAFE , 6 pm, and June 25, 2015, Reading, BOULDER BOOK STORE, 7:30 pm.

Break down in El Paso:

"The trip is a piece of cake, unless the car breaks down."

The repair shop is one mile away

not full stop in the New Mexico desert.

This is Drama. They write books about such things. Read More 

Welcome aboard to my newest travel partner, Gloria Barragan, as she prepares for the Sidewind Across America Tour -- shopping in a local camping section. She claims she had never slept in a tent.

She pretty much blew the minds of the Barnes and Nobel staff in El Paso.

"How did you do the publicity?" they asked after the standing-room only crowd on Wedneday night.

"They're my friends," GB said. "I've got lots of them."

The B & N sold out and had to reorder!

GO GLO! SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY FRIEND WITH ME ON THE SIDEWIND.

GB has been to Alaska with me before. She will do it again now after we pick up my nephew Marshall and niece Carlyn in Denver. We will hang in Denver / Boulder with Carol Keeley, Jodi Hoke, and hopefully catch a glimpse of BK Loren.

Then this dream team will cross the Rockies heading straight for the Pacific.

Departing El Paso Monday for points north: Boulder, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Anchorage and on...

Next stop Boulder Colorado on June 23 at the Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe @ 6 and then on June 25 at the Boulder Book Store at 7.30. Read More 

Friends for Life for real.

Thank you Barnes & Nobel El Paso.

Thank you Gloria, Cristina, and Richie and Ivette Barragan.

Thank you all Gloria's wonderful friends.

Thank you for Melissa Guerra who has been with right there with me (near or far) for 30 years.

xoxo.

SAN ANTONIO to EL PASO:

At The Twig we had to swim from the parking lot.

Ok, waded.

Ok, we just ran really fast.

It had been hot early on the river walk,

Turtles floating in the sun, turtles swimming fast, turtles sunbathing.

The river winds through town with a tunnel under the  Read More