Tag: national-parks
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Perfect World
Okay, I probably could have used this title almost any week along this trip, in all fairness. This was the last song on the A side of the Talking Heads’ best selling album, Little Creatures. For those of you who don’t know what an A side is, you’re too young to be reading this blog.…
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Moon Rocks
Okay… let’s go with kind of a ‘deep cut’ for this week’s post title. “Moon Rocks” was on the Talking Heads’ wonderful ‘Speaking in Tongues’ album. By why name this post ‘Moon Rocks’? Well to answer that, let’s start with another question…. “where’s Nico?” Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument! Since we last chatted about our travels,…
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Wild Wild Life
Okay… so when the Talking Heads were kind of at their peak, David Byrne decided to make a movie called ‘True Stories’, and the whole band shows up in the film at one point or another. Wild Wild Life was kind of the hit single from the soundtrack. Here’s an odd bit of trivia –…
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Nico Nico in Coconino!
Okay, we’re going to put the Talking Heads song titles away for a post here, because we enjoyed the word play around Nico and our current location. Credit to Kristen for coming up with the post title. I was trying to think of a way to change up “Copa Cabana” to “Coconino”, but to no…
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This Must Be The Place
Okay… This may be the last Talking Heads song I go with for a title. I love this little tune off “Speaking in Tongues”, but I realize we’re well past where anyone outside of pretty big fans will know what the heck I’m referring to. Anyway, I’m sure you’re curious what “must be the place”?…
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
I mentioned before that Kristen and I have hit a couple dozen national parks together, and Nico is rapidly building up his collection of parks too. It’s cliche, but we often take a picture of the park sign near the entrance. You can see from Nico’s face above, that he thinks it’s kind of a…
Where’s Nico? 