On a bear hunt in Idaho on the “River Of no Return”. The string of guest “rides “ were all mules. The wrangler road a mare. He told us a mule would follow a mare forever as their only real friend in life had bern a mare. Their mother. Very well mannered group of mounts. Very sure footed going up and down the canyon walls every day. Omnitel a mule man, but, we were told by the wrangler that the chest strap and butt strap are necessary as a mule has no withers. The withers of a horse keep the saddle from sliding forward.

FaceBook recently sentenced me to Jail for violating their terms and bullying. And just what was my "crime"? Friends had posted a photo of them that I had taken 19 years ago. I commented that it might be time to update that photo and they agreed. Now here is what got me into trouble with FaceBook: My response was "Would love to shoot you anytime." Photographers use the term "Shoot" all the time. But apparently FaceBook's algorithm only picks up on works that they deem are offensive and abusive. I tried to object - since this was taken totally out of context - however only got a notice that there was a shortage of reviewers and that they could not review my objection in a timely manner. So the "offense" stays on my account. One would think that FaceBook would have a algorithm that can review the entire context of the online exchange rather than just focuses on keywords - which have multiple meanings. Also, with all the money that FaceBook and Mark Zuckerberg have, that many just maybe they could afford to hire more reviewers. Also, there is no way to physically speak to a person at FaceBook. Just be warned that your common everyday language as a photographer could get you sentenced to FaceBook Jail for a day or more.

The Imperial Palace Hotel in Las Vegas used to have one of the best collection of automobiles I have seen outside of the Harrah's collection in Reno and I always took time out to visit it whenever I was in town. There was an admission charge but if you entered through the front door of the casino there was usually someone handing out free tickets. The collection had one whole room devoted to Dusenbergs and had some truly remarkable automobiles. The last time I was in Las Vegas (2017) for a convention the Imperial Palace was no more but there was still an automobile museum but one that was much different than the original one. First of all, the entire collection of Duseys had been sold and almost all of the remaining cars were for sale. Here are a few of the better ones they had along with a full description of each with the asking price.

I've already posted some of Zion, but here's a few others.
Before we got to Zion, we stopped at St. George for supplies. We asked a lady in the visitor centre where the bottle shop (Liquor store) was, and she said "You can't buy alcohol here, this is Utah." Gulp... Then we asked directions to Walmart, and she looked down at Paul's brightly coloured board-shorts and said "Do you need to buy some clothes?"
Our first Walmart experience, we saw some FLDS sister-wives doing their shopping, and we saw guns for sale. We thought - what? We can buy a gun but not a beer? They did sell Budweiser, so we were happy. Love a cold beer after a hard day's driving.