Following my two month stint at Chaco we spent a day in Albuquerque and I proceeded to drive east on I-40 to join family and friends at MerleFest (which will have it's own posting). The square in "Old Town" Albuquerque was alive as they we celebrating Founder's Day weekend. Bands were playing, people dancing and some were celebrating their marriages.
I never miss an opportunity for kitsch as the tourist trinket shops were alive and well for the season. A personal favorite is the "Deerslayer Boomerang made by folks from the Cherokee Tribe" - hard for me to imagine anything more out of place in the Southwest but...there you are : ) an eBay review indicates
- Two common example of junk boomerangs are the ubiquitous Bullseye/Rothco traditional-shaped, natural-color plywood boomerang with red painted tips but little or no wing shaping, and the traditional-shaped blue and red Cherokee/Niagara Falls/Ninja/Deerslayer/Florida (or other state name) boomerang: They absolutely will not return, unless you throw them straight up.
