Over the Shoulder

Thought I’d take the day off and just look back a little bit and be grateful of times past and those coming down the road. Of course, picking pictures to fit in this format was not easy. The one above is, obviously, the famous corner in Winslow, Arizona. Stopped there on a motorcycle trip on the W.G. The bike is named after the late Wade Goodwyn, a fine person and journalist for NPR, who the world lost to cancer. He insisted his wife get me his amazing motorcycle, and I find myself riding it. The drawing of it in a picture below was made by a highway department worker who asked me about the initials on the bike. I told him Wade’s story, and he looked at the bike, took a picture, and asked for my phone number so he could text me a drawing. It’s quite amazing and clearly an unanticipated experience. I’d have loved to hear Wade’s telling of it. His bike will keep generating stories worth telling, just as I believe Wade would have liked.

Just wanted to offer a big thanks to everyone who reads, shares, and subscribes to this newsletter. It has exceeded my expectations when I started two and a half years ago. I hope it continues to grow and will have even broader appeal. I’ve got a wealth of stories I am just now starting to tap.

I was the morning DJ, Burlington, Colorado, 1975

Eastern Colorado adobe where we first lived after getting married

First road trip on the WG, magic was afoot

Three of the best people I know; the little red-haired girl and Patrick and Cheryl Fries outside the Broadmoor, Colorado Springs

Ranch Road 170, looking toward Terlinga and Chisos Mountains

Santa Fe Trail, Colorado

Old friend, fellow journalist, and brother Ray Metoyer, our last time together in Louisiana with friends, before we lost Ray to cancer.

Glory days; that ectomorph on the right could fly.

Watching the Alpine Cowboys baseball team in the cathedral known as Kokernot Park, the best in all the land, with Deece Eckstein and David Marwitz

First trip to Alaska - Seward - with host Doug Wight in the middle, Shelle Elle, Mason Stotz, and the little red-haired girl

Trying to convince Danny Self it’s okay to be a liberal, Silver City, New Mexico

Reason to love Texas, ocotillo in the spring

Early Kristofferson phase, 1976, McAllen, Texas with the little red-haired girl

Sparky’s green chili cheeseburger, Hatch, New Mexico, unequalled between the coasts

My loves on their wedding day, daughter Amanda Noelle Moore Ogwuegbu and son-in-law Onyema Sylvanus Ogwuegbu

Riding the Mogollon Ranges with Chris Greta and Danny Self, me and the WG

Youth is wasted on the young, but not us! Mid 80s near Mansfield Dam, Ken and Sue Vest. He was as good a friend as I believe I’ve ever had. Lost him just over a year ago to complications after surgery. Still miss him.

World class photographer, adventurer, and restauranteur, Victor Cooper, Kanab, Utah, fall in there

Greta, Danny, and me, out on the road like some lowdown Joes

Yonder goes another year