Monument Valley
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011
The centerpiece of our entire road trip had been Bob’s desire to visit Monument Valley. When I last left you hanging, we were in the midst of an open-air jeep tour of the region on the morning of Tuesday, March 29, 2011, but we had yet to cross from Mystery Valley into the very familiar terrain of Monument Valley. This posting will complete the tour – along with sharing a few screen captures from some of the films that made Monument Valley famous. The following locations are all located just over the border of Arizona, whereas the previous ones were all in the southernmost part of Utah. Read the rest of this entry »
I can’t honestly say that I’ve ever seen a single episode of the TV sitcom Family Affair, but it’s on my current ‘want list’. It was quite popular during its five-year run, being nominated for numerous Emmy awards. The actress who played Uncle Bill’s eldest niece Cissy Davis was Kathy Garver, and I had the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show on Saturday, October 9, 2010. 
I’m sorry, I just didn’t like him. In Alex Haley’s TV mini-series Roots, he played the central character Kunta Kinte, an African who was stripped away from his homeland and brought to the United States in slavery. He was amazing in the role and to coin a pun, I was rooting for him every step of the way. Later on, Levar Burton was the presenter of the children’s series Reading Rainbow. I’m all about rooting for helping kids read. It was probably when he graduated to the Star Trek series- playing Geordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation – that he became a jerk. Star Trek tends to do that to actors sometimes. Am I complaining too much?