Author: Phillip

When I was a kid, I remember fondly a video we watched in science class about Niagara Falls. The idea of 700,000 gallons of water passing through those falls every second was mind blowing. The sheer scale of those falls seemed great, even from my chair at the back of the classroom. There are three […]

Before moving to New Mexico, I lived in the northeast for a number of years in an old steel milling town. It was hard living with few job prospects and lots of generational poverty. There were scam artists operating as building contractors and they would target some of the most desperate and vulnerable people around. […]

I am planning a trip with my fiance. I looked all over the place within the United States that we could go. I settled on California and now I am struggling on where to go exactly. California is such a big state. Do I want to go north or south? I could go north and […]

It hit me suddenly that we would not have any snow on Christmas Day My boyfriend and I moved to Florida, because he was stationed there for the military. I certainly didn’t want to move to Florida. I knew it was going to be extremely hot and humid. Some friends of mine move to Florida […]

My wife and I were only a couple of hours away from San Francisco, so my wife thought it would be fun to take a 2 day trip to the city. I was nervous about leaving the kids home alone for two days, but it sounded like a great getaway for the two of us. […]

I know that we aren’t exactly Hollywood, or New York, but Albuquerque has more than it’s fair share of stars that call it home. One of my favorite writers and directors is a man named Mike Judge, who you probably know from either Beavis and Butthead, King of the Hill, Silicon Valley, or Idiocracy. For […]

One of my first memories as a child was visiting the Seattle Space Needle. I do not remember any other part of the trip, nor a single thing about the city, but with horrific precision I can recall the feeling of terror I got by peering over the edge and seeing how high up I […]

When I was a kid, the best football team in the world was the Denver Broncos. My parents were large fans of the football team. Even though our family did not have a huge amount of currency, Seasons tickets were always purchased to see the Denver Broncos play. My dad and addition to my mom […]

The weather in Denver can be unusual. Denver enjoys moderate warm seasons in addition to cold Winters with very little humidity. The problem is really due to the intense altitude. There isn’t really much precipitation in the city of Denver either, although more than two people think the section has snow all year. Denver has […]

My associate in addition to myself live in a place with multiple family rooms. It is multiple miles from my job however the two of us can get there actually entirely using the subway station. My roomie were close to our apartment. He is a budtender at a marijuana dispensary. Legal weed is a very […]