Thoughts from Life – Brian Kirwan has thoughts, and these are them.

Thoughts from Life

Route 66, the Bagdad Cafe, and Tourists – Thoughts from September 21, 2024 – Last Day Part 1

Patti and I woke up for the last time in our hotel room in Lake Havasu City, Arizona. Tonight, we would be home and sleep in our own bed. The end of our vacation was hours and not days away. We drive back today but we still have a few more places to visit. The…

Brian Kirwan

September 30, 2025

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2024, Arizona, Bagdad Cafe, Bagdad Cafe movie, bring crowds with us, bus fulls of tourists, California, Calling You, food service, French tourists, Historic Bagdad Cafe, in the desert, Japanese tourists, Jevetta Steele, Lake Havasu City, Newberry Springs, no internet, off-ramps, Patti, restroom, restroom walls, Route 66, Route 66 historical destination, Route 66 shield, thoughts, tourist pictures, US flags
Route 66, Historic Stops, and Roadkill Burgers – Thoughts from September 20, 2024

Patti and I woke up in the Jack Oakie room of the El Rancho hotel in Gallop, New Mexico. We got a late checkout, so we didn’t have to be out until noon. We took showers in the awkward bathroom and collected our luggage, large snack bag, cooler, and other assorted items back into the…

Brian Kirwan

September 23, 2025

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2024, Arizona, awkward bathroom, beer, being stuffed, bikers, Bird That Smacked the Curb, buffalo meat, cooler, El Rancho hotel, elk meat, face mask in bed, Farm Burger, Gallop New Mexico, Gateway to the Grand Canyon, heading home, in bed with cats, Jack Oakie room, Lake Havasu City, large snack bag, late checkout, locals, luggage, menu of stories, natural history museum, OK Saloon, Patti, posing dead animals, Reuben sandwich, Roadkill Cafe, Route 66, science, Seligman Arizona, sit anywhere, sit anywhere motto, Swirl of Squirrel, taxidermy animals, Texas toast, thoughts, throat and sinus problems, throat problems, time change, tourists, traveling the highway, vegans, wasn’t out kind of place, Williams Arizona, You Kill It We Grill It
Route 66, Dreams, and Second Breakfast – Thoughts from September 19, 2024

My last morning in the Roswell hotel began with a dream. I was walking up a cluttered stairwell with my mom and a cousin of ours. The cousin and I were kids. My mom was younger and could walk up and down the stairs easily. This was not the reality for my mom, especially in…

Brian Kirwan

September 16, 2025

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1938, 2024, albuquerque, bad dream, box of Lego, breakfast, businessperson, Californian, collecting Lego, cowboy hat and lasso, dad, defying expectations, desert lizard, dream mom, dream yelling, dreams, El Rancho hotel, eye mask, finding a channel to sleep to, freeway, Gallop New Mexico, home of the movie stars, Jack Oakie, Lego, Lego pieces, Lucille Ball, mom, New Mexico, old Hollywood, old-fashioned metal key, Patti, Petrified Forest, petrified tree, Roswell New Mexico, Route 66, second breakfast, sit anywhere, sleeping in hotels, stairs, state motto, steakhouse, tepee hotel, The Affairs of Annabel, thoughts, toys, travels, vacation foods, Waffle House, waffles butter and syrup, writing, yelling
Route 66, Alien Cats, and Donuts – Thoughts from September 18, 2024 – Roswell Part 2

We bought several alien and Roswell-related things from the various shops we traveled through. The best one was an alien ship driven by an alien cat who is attempting to beam up a mouse. There were several other things I wanted to get, but I’m realizing I have too much stuff from past vacations, so…

Brian Kirwan

September 9, 2025

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2024, alien cat, alien ship, alien themed, Arizona, authentic Mexican food, Baskin Robbins, beam up, California, deliciously authentic, donkey and squirrel sidekicks, donuts, Dunkin, endlessly fascinated, giant alien, good Mexican food, half dozen donuts, heading back, humorous videos, ice cream, McDonald's, Mexican TV show, New Mexico, only acceptable flavor, OUT OF THIS WORLD FRIES, Patti, restaurant, Ronald McDonald, Roswell New Mexico, Roswell-related things, Route 66, shaped like an alien ship, shops, sit anywhere, soft serve, spacecraft, spontaneous part of the trip, Tagueria Jalisco, thoughts, too much stuff, understanding Spanish, wait to be seated, wooden alien
Route 66, Aliens, and Spacewalks – Thoughts from September 18, 2024 – Roswell Part 1

Patti and I woke up in Roswell, New Mexico. This was the location she was most excited about visiting. We would be here two nights. She didn’t plan it this way, but we needed another day just to make up for arriving so late on the first night. At 3:00 pm, we were visiting the…

Brian Kirwan

September 2, 2025

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1947 UFO crash, 1994, 2024, a blacklight adventure, Alien Attack, alien autopsy, alien capital of the galaxy, alien creatures, alien lore, alien-related items, aliens, aliens from another planet, bigfoot, Bricktown, California, cheesy car salesman, cheesy fun, credibility, documentaries, examine another time in history, extreme weather, haunted house, Kyle McLaughlin, Land of the Lost, Lego, light-up ray gun, Martin Sheen, NASA, over-selling, Patti, putting on a show, re-creations, Roswell movie, Roswell New Mexico, Roswell UFO Spacewalk, Roswell Visitor Center, Route 66, Sleestak, small towns, space aliens, thoughts, top-secret documents, tourists, UFO, UFO Museum and International Research Center, unconfirmed assertions, zapping noises