tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556152524092234475.post8774064910910600167..comments2023-10-08T02:20:35.522-07:00Comments on CK Bradley: Quest Article: American Vacationsck bradleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03461547943497280922noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556152524092234475.post-34380546456982436722009-10-06T10:03:59.739-07:002009-10-06T10:03:59.739-07:00Really, really beautiful. You have a lovely way of...Really, really beautiful. You have a lovely way of capturing the adventure, romance and serenity of discovering the West driving across America. It reminds me of Charlie Daniels, "My Beautiful America":<br /><br />Have you ever spent the late afternoon<br />watching the purple shadows deepen in Arizona desert?<br />Or seen a herd of Elk plow their way<br />through waist deep snow on a cold Colorado dome?<br />Did you ever see the sun go down in Hawaii,<br />Or seen the stormy waves break over the rock bound coast of Maine?<br />Or have you ever see an eagle fly up out of the mists of Alaska?<br />Or a big October moon hanging full over the still Dakota badlands?<br /><br />Have you ever tasted the gumbo in New Orleans, Bar-B-Que in Carolina<br />Or the chicken wings in Buffalo?<br />Have you ever had Brunswick stew in Macon, or cornbread in Burmingham?<br />Or brisket slow cooked over hill country mesquite wood?<br /><br />Did you ever drink the water from a gurgling branch in Utah,<br />Or, stand on the mountain above El Paso Del Norte<br />And see the lights twinkling clear over into Mexico?<br />Did you ever jangle horses in the pre dawn stillness of a perfect Texas day<br />And watch their shodded hooves kicking up sparks on the volcanic rock?<br /><br />Or tended a trout line on a foggy Carolina morning,<br />Or heard the distant song of a lovesick whippoorwill<br />On a pristine Tenneesee late night?<br />Have you seen the faces on Mount Rushmore or stood at the Vietnam monument?<br /><br />Have you ever crossed the mighty Mississippi,<br />Or been to the daddy of them all in Cheyenne, Wyoming?<br />Or seen the mighty Vols run out on the football field on a chilly autumn afternoon?<br /><br />Did you ever see the Chicago skyline from Lake Shore Drive at night?<br />Or the New England follage in the fall,<br />Or the summer beauty of the Shenandoah valley,<br />Or Indiana covered with new snow?<br /><br />Did you ever seen a herd of wild horses running free<br />Across the empty spaces in Nevada?<br />Or, caught a walleyed pike out of a cold Wisconsin stream?<br />Or ,marveled at the tall ship docked in the harbor at Baltimore?<br /><br />Did you ever see the early morning dew sparkling on the blue grass,<br />Or, the wind stir the wheat fields on a hot Kansas afternoon?<br />Or, driven the lonely stretches of old Route 66?<br />Have you ever heard the church bells peal their call to worship<br />On an early Sunday, in some small town in the deep south?<br /><br />Or pass through the redwood forest just as the sun was going down?<br />Have you ever been to Boise or Batchlee or Beufort or Billings?<br />Have you ever passed through Sanford or Suffolk or San Angelo?<br />Have you ever seen the falls at Nigara?<br />The ice palace in Saint Paul?<br />Or the Gateway to the west?<br /><br />This then is America!<br />The land God blesses with everything<br />And no Effel Tower: no Taj Mahal;<br />No Alps; No Andes;<br />No native hut; nor Royal Palace -<br />Can rival her awesome beauty,<br />Her diverse poplulation, her monolithic majesty.<br />America the Free !<br />America the mighty!<br />America the beautiful !<br />I pledge alligence to the flag of the United States of America<br />And to the republic for which it stands<br />One Nation Under God indivisible<br />with liberty and justice for all!Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00635470275255661009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556152524092234475.post-90430819086737545512009-07-28T10:10:30.117-07:002009-07-28T10:10:30.117-07:00Alas, I will make it a priority one of these days ...Alas, I will make it a priority one of these days to get one of those big babies on and photographed for public consumption....ck bradleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03461547943497280922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3556152524092234475.post-13484769788249824352009-07-27T09:33:51.031-07:002009-07-27T09:33:51.031-07:00Ahh,formal request for belt buckles pic por favor....Ahh,formal request for belt buckles pic por favor...XXOOSummer is a Verbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11122787755561566562noreply@blogger.com