Animals

Last night I stayed in Ogallala, Nebraska. I’m about three hours from my destination. The Ogallala Aquifer has its site locality here and runs under eight states in the Great Plains (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer). The aquifer is being depleted at ever-increasing rates. I learned about it in a college environmental-issues class and was shocked at how much…

The other day, a pet chimpanzee attacked a woman and severely disfigured her face. The victim was a friend of the woman who owned the chimp. Travis, the chimp, wanted to go for a drive and took the keys to the car. The owner and her friend tried to lure him back into his cage.…

Yesterday, we went on a three-hour horseback ride, and there was plenty to see. The landscape looks as if someone painted it with a brush. I took a few pictures from the back of my horse, Lollipop. Lollipop, is not a very good looking horse. He has allergies, so his eyes run and he’s getting…