CITY OF DUST

A few weeks ago we visited an unusual house on a hillside nestled deep in the barren wilderness of Socorro County, New Mexico. A hippy pa...

I first started City of Dust in August 2004 specifically to share some of the few hundred photos I'd taken over the previous two years w...

It’s been awhile since I’ve posted about a place that I know absolutely nothing about. But I used to do it all the time. Back in 2004, I w...

Don’t worry, with the next post we’ll be heading back out to the desert. Even in the searing heat I’ve managed to check out a few new loc...

While southwestern New Mexico burns, covering much of the state in dingy smoke, I think we’ll stay overseas and visit Beelitz Heilstätten,...

City of Dust is pretty much always on the road and occasionally we even manage to go international. Awhile back we visited the Chong Kneas ...

This afternoon I came across a rattlesnake by the side of the house. A big one. Western diamondback. I reached for my pistol, like alw...

 Last post we visited Chloride, wwaayy down the road. Pretty much at the end of the road, actually. But a little nearer to I-25 is Cuch...

I’ll admit that many of the places I visit are run-down and lonesome and the tales tend to get a little dark . Sure, I guess I like it th...

NOVEMBER 2022 UPDATE: This post was written just over a decade ago, and a couple years back I posted an introductory caveat about the vera...

There’s nothing quite like a night in an old hotel. Last year we stopped by the St. James Hotel up in Cimarron and now we’ll check out t...