Back from Chi-town!

And while it was great to visit, it’s better to get back to sunny southern New Mexico.

The trip going was fine but coming back it took us 24 hours because our connecting flight was cancelled in Dallas.  They’re going through one of their worst droughts ever but it rained enough on Friday night to wreak havoc on incoming and outgoing planes.

This is the way Mike spent the overnight hours before catching a flight back on Saturday morning.   Even UTEP basketball coach Tim Floyd got hung up but he was on the 10:40 pm flight that left around 1 am.

Hard to tell but he’s the second guy from the left.

1960: The entourage of Cuban premier Fidel Castro was kicked out of a New York hotel for cooking chickens in their rooms.

1981: Some 400-thousand watched two former partners reunite in concert at New York City’s Central Park. They had split in 1970. Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel.

The 101 number one song of the day was recorded by two brothers from Brooklyn, N.Y. who got to the top with an instrument much more at home in Nashville than in New York City.

Santo Farina learned how to play the steel guitar when he was only nine years old. His brother Johnny mastered the rhythm guitar when he was twelve. The two were popular in school where they played for dances and parties. And they lived around the corner from where I grew up. On September 19, 1959 there’s was the number one song in the land: Santo and Johnny (Sleepwalk)

Listen for the replay and win!