by Jeffery W. McKelroy Billed as the “Largest Ghost Town in America”, Jerome is just a short five-hour drive north and west from Bisbee and through Phoenix. If you don’t mind adding an hour to the trip you can take a detour through the scenic Tonto National Forrest. The town of Jerome is located at…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy Four hundred and sixty miles to the south of Madrid, New Mexico along Interstate 25 will take you almost to the border with Mexico and all the way to Bisbee, Arizona. If Bisbee sounds familiar, it is probably because it plays prominently in many Western movies and is at least frequently…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy In the summer of 2020 during the pandemic, I took a train from New Orleans to Chicago and then another train from Chicago to Elkhart, Indiana. I was for the most part alone. On the night that I arrived in Elkhart there was rain, and thunder and lightning. The train station…

by Jeffery W. McKelroy It was November 4th, 2015. It was 6 days before my birthday, and I was packed up and ready to go. I retired from the military on the 1st of September. I had moved all my furniture into a storage unit on Tchoupitoulas Street the day before and already returned the…