I have to keep changing WordPress themes if I want to have certain features that the old theme doesn’t support—except that the new theme doesn’t support them either.
Highway 90
If you are driving from Marfa to Valentine, TX, and thinking that you could use a new Prada bag, you’re in luck! Just stop by the Prada store on Highway 90.
Except that it’s closed. Except that it was never open. The building is an art installation that was inaugurated on October 1, 2005—and then vandalized and robbed the same evening. (The building was repaired, and a security system installed.)
Next: New Mexico.
The Marfa Lights
The Marfa lights, or Marfa ghost lights, are “most often reported as distant spots of brightness, distinguishable from ranch lights and automobile headlights on Highway 67 (between Marfa and Presidio, to the south) primarily by their aberrant movements,” per Wikipedia. While some may claim that the lights are caused by cars or houses, or are somehow connected to a nearby airfield, people have reported seeing them since 1883. They are marked by their strange behavior: changing color, disappearing and reappearing, splitting into two and then merging back, and moving erratically. My videos weren’t steady—it’s the camera bobbing up and down, not the lights—but all the other movements were the lights themselves.
Next: one more Marfa post.