by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 31, 2017 | Travel
From the outset, I confess that I’m not what you’d call ‘savvy’ when it comes to artificial intelligence. In fact, the first time I saw the acronym ‘AI’ in a BBC report about robots, I wondered how artificial ‘insemination’ had crept into the message as, being...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 19, 2017 | Travel
Phew! Phew! Phew! Breathe! Relax! Finally – over 5,000 kms, seven US states, two border crossings, a few hiccups along the way – a GPS system that failed us miserably with only 60 kms to go… But, we’ve arrived safe and sound. Didn’t rush out of bed today after five...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 19, 2017 | Travel
So near, yet so far! A rather eventful day, in one way or another. Alarm at 5:30 am, car reloaded, grabbed two coffees, muffins and bananas from the hotel and crossed International Bridge II at 6:30 to Nuevo Laredo. Passed through the first customs check-point –...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 19, 2017 | Travel
Well – not a long day, but extremely hot and monotonous! Immediately after leaving Artesia, New Mexico, this morning, we hit pancake-flat desert lands with sagebrush to the far horizons. A completely featureless landscape if you discount the hundreds (or thousands) of...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 19, 2017 | Travel
Well, I confess that today’s landscape lacked the spectacular vistas of yesterday’s Arches and Canyonlands NPs – although the high desert through the southern half of Utah, south-western corner of Colorado and into New Mexico was… interesting. Many hours driving at...
