Taos, New Mexico is a amazing place. Somehow the flat-topped mesa mountains outside Taos have become a mecca for off-the-grid lifestyles with hundreds of people living off-the-grid in Taos Mesa. These people are not just hippies, there are all kinds of people from veterans to people preparing for the end of the world and others who are trying to escape society.
The 15th century Catalan poem, “Scachs d’Amor,” describes a game of chess played between Venus and Mars. The game which accompanies this text is believed to be the earliest recorded game under the modern rules of chess. The English translation of the poem below is available through the generosity of the late Dr. Josep Miquel Sobrer of Indiana University.
Capt. Bill Cannan’s offshore boat is a 36′ Yellowfin powered by triple Yamaha F250’s named “BIDNEZ”.