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Gun enthusiasts flock to Tucson’s annual expo

Gun enthusiasts flock to Tucson’s annual expo

April 30th 2023 in Tucson, Arizona. Between 80 and 100 gun dealers, gun makers, and sellers of anything and everything associated with firearms, old and new, laid out their wares inside Tucson's Expo Centre at the weekend for the Arizona city's annual Expo Gun Show...

El Paso’s metal fence a monument to Trump

El Paso’s metal fence a monument to Trump

April 25th 2023, El Paso. From a distance, it looks like a thin and very straight black line sitting on the horizon. On this side of it, the Texas side that is, the land is pancake flat farm land. On the other side, the Mexican side, the land is mostly scrub and rises...

A small town in Texas is at the center of a ‘book banning’ row

A small town in Texas is at the center of a ‘book banning’ row

April 21st 2023, Llano, Texas. Most everything you need to know about Llano can be found in Fuel Cafe on East Main Street. What is seen and unseen, what is spoken and what is not spoken about. The cafe's motto -- coffee + music + community -- sums up how it, and...

Texas lives up to its stereotype . . . so far

Texas lives up to its stereotype . . . so far

April 15th 2023, Bandera,Texas. It was such a relief to leave Mexico and enter the United States. Two nights before I departed Monterrey, a young woman spat at me in the street -- full force so that I felt her spittle hit the back of my neck and head. I can say with...

A trip to the brothel

A trip to the brothel

April 11th 2023, Monterrey, northern Mexico. I spent the night in a sort-of Jury's Inn type hotel in the middle of Cuidad Victoria, a city in north-eastern Mexico and a decent jumping off point for the Mexico/Texas border, if I decided to head straight for it. Not...

Viva Mezcal!

Viva Mezcal!

March 31st 2023, Santiago Matatlán. I suspect that Emelio Mato was catching 40 winks somewhere out back when I called into his roadside mazcal distillery on the edge of Santiago Matatlán. The distillery, a fairly ramshackle affair, was set back from the road by about...

Mexico doesn’t do small

Mexico doesn’t do small

March 30th 2023, Salinas Cruz, Mexico. It's not long after crossing the border from Guatemala into Mexico that it begins to dawn on me that this is a huge, like a massive, massive, country. No great revelation there seeing as Mexico has been more or less as it is now...

A big weekend in Antigua

A big weekend in Antigua

March 27th 2023, Antigua, Guatemala. The gods have blessed Antigua. Once the capital of Guatemala, they wrecked it in the late 18th century but in doing so, almost certainly stopped it turning into just another sprawling Latin American city, choking with people and...

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