Jack Beers New York

I watched tonight on PBS (my favorite tv channel) a documentary on Jack Beers.The most respect!
     
Jack at seventeen years old and at ninety four years old.

Enjoy these videos. Fifi


Jack Beers, 94-Year-Old Strongman

As a kid growing up on the Lower East Side, Jack Beers became known on vaudeville as "New York City's Strongest Boy." Later, he worked as a dog trainer and had small roles in Tootsie and Ghost Busters. In this clip from the documentary on his life airing  on PBS, a 94-year-old Beers navigates GPS, takes a shower, and rips a phone book into thirds with his bare hands. "We did it in one take," director David Wachs says. .............. Jack  died July 14th 2009 at 99yrs old. What a life!

David Lynch interview project

Interview Project is directed by David Lynch's son, Austin Lynch, and Jason S. 
Over the course of a 20,000-mile road trip over 70 days, the duo filmed "typical Americans"  in their"natural habitats" telling their own stories.

The result of so much pavement pounding appear at interviewproject.davidlynch.com.  

Enjoyed this kind of road trip project. Fifi.     
Thank You Marie for the link.

"The Turtle Man" in Kentucky (USA).

Thank You Gilles for the link!

 


 

Halloween in New York City

Laramie in Wyoming

At the end of october, Thelma and me, we made a trip from Denver (Colorado) to Buffalo (Wyoming). In this amazing landscape, I remembered all the western movies I watched during my childhood.  Thank you for Amy, Debbie, Dawn, Chris, Bob, Dona, Mitch, Suzi,Tom...who were open-minded with us.

 The first video and the second one are about the begining of this trip we made from Denver (Colorado) to Laramie (Wyoming).

The third video was in Laramie. Each twenty minutes a train cross the town.

The fourth,  owner and  founder, Tom Mattimore of Civil War boots shop. 
His website: http://www.civilwarboots.com/

The town of Kaycee in Wyoming

We left Laramie to go to Kaycce. It's a small agricultural and ranching area with some oil production and mining. 240 people live there. During the late 1890s, this place was made famous as an outlaw hideout by Robert Leroy (Butch Cassidy), Kid Curry and other members of the Wild Bunch.



The road trip from Laramie to Kaycee was under the snow for three hours. I liked it!!!

When we arrived, during the evening, in Kaycee, Dona and Bob Brock received us in their welcoming house.
Dona 67 years old is in charge of the cafetaria of Kaycee's school.
And Bob 73 years old is still a driver of the school bus.




We spent a great time one evening in the "Hole in Wall Bar" one of the two bars of Kaycee.



We met Mitch, a great guy, in this bar.

 

Mitch enjoyed a part of Suzie's body, after drinking few beers.



The next day, the weather was so nice, some kids were playing football in this magnificent landscape.

These videos are about the trip we made from Laramie to Kaycee and the time we spent in a bar in Kaycee one night.

In a ranch In Kaycee (Wyoming)

We spent an afternoon in "the Brock Ranch". Dawn and Debbie, two sisters, who live in Buffalo invited us to visit this place. Their brother, Chris Brock, is the manager of this ranch in Kaycee. Chris is in charge of twenty two thousand acres and four hundred cows. Amazing!!!! Thank you for all of them to have a new experience like that.
To go to the ranch we needed to drive few miles on the Brock Road.

From Marie. Visit:http://msoub.canalblog.com/

 We met, Leif on the road. He is a cowboy who has a ranch in this area.

The cowboy, Chris, made a special whistle and his horses came to see us.

In a barn of the ranch, Chris showed us, an amazing scene. Some men after an hunting were cutting an elk in different pieces.
Chris told us than with the teeth of the elk, they make rings.

At the end, the meat is cutting in small slices and wrap up into paper. 

In the past, the Plains Indians were pushing the buffalos from the top of this moutain.



Video 1: The cowboy Leif.
Video 2: Chris Brock's horses.
Video 3: After an hunting in the hills of the ranh, some men, in a barn, were cutting a elk (wapiti) into slices. Bon appetit!
Video 4: "Good Ride Cowboy" is a single, released in 2005, by artist Garth Brooks The song is a tribute to Chris LeDoux, another country musician and friend of Brooks's. LeDoux spent his time off the road with his family at their ranch in Kaycee, Wyoming.

Garth brooks - good ride cowboy
Uploaded by rawestern.

Buffalo In Wyoming.

After driving 44 miles from Kaycee, on a flat road, we arrived in Buffalo. The population is less than 4000 residents. Buffalo is rich in the history of the Old West. Buffalo is in Johnson County, renegades and rustlers were active.

 
 The imposing Big Horn Mountains appeared on the horizon. They're there, they're huge, and you won't be able to stop staring at them for the rest of the drive into Buffalo.




We went in a diner restaurant for a lunch.What a big surprise inside!!!
 

 
 Hey guys, a fine catch ! 

An uncredible collection of pistols and pictures of  western notableslike Calamity Jane, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid and Buffalo Bill Cody.

After the diner restaurant, we stopped in a liquor store. At the back, there was a bar. The bartender told me than most of this people are regular customers. They spend the day to speak about gossips and of course they drink the different alcools of the liquor store!

New York City.

Pluméliau in Brittany (France)

At the end of july and begining of august, I was in Pluméliau, the village where I was born and I grew up, for a few weeks to visit my parents. During this time, I went to Saint Nicodeme chapel in the countryside. Each year, the first sunday of august, my mother and many people from Pluméliau are going to celebrate this Saint.

Merida in Yucatan (Mexico)

After Thulum , the trip continued to Merida, the capital of the Yucatan state in Mexico.