Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Video

Killing Axel Foley.

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This is me (wearing my old dork glasses which I do not wear in public but evidently see fit to wear for the world on You Tube) and Naomi playing duets on Christmas Day evening while the others talked loudly in the background so they could hear above the piano. The song was "Axel F" and I cracked.

Sorry, Axel.

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Highway 281 road trip with Nome and Bine.

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Sabine, Naomi and I piled into a Dodge Neon with a leaky cooler and fought over things like riding shotgun and money from the Peace Gardens down to Brownsville, Texas.

At some point, my camera died in the extreme August heat and I found myself huddled beneath a blanket in the searing sun somewhere in Nebraska yelling obscenities as I tried to get the film out, unruined, without the aid of a real dark room.

There was an explosion at a campground near where we stayed on the return trip, near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

A scorpion in a camera case.

A bad visual incident with an old man wearing a Speedo on South Padre Island.

Lots of swimming in outdoor pools at night with buzzing locusts somewhere in Kansas. An invasion of French students in the pool in San Antonio which made Bine leave because "the French don't like Germans."

The smell of smoke from acres of burning New Mexico wildfires near Santa Fe.

An ugly planning mishap in Denver that resulted in the unfortunate stay in Longmont. An awesome cabin up near Estes Park by Rocky Mountain National Park.

The alien museum in Roswell. Dairy Queen after Dairy Queen. Smashing into armadillos. The cowboy museum in Hico, Texas.

And it was pretty cheap, too.

Yep.