THE VIEW FROM EL MORRO

Much to our national disgrace, the current administration continues to fail Puerto Rico when it comes to recovery efforts from Hurricane Maria. Six months after 15% of Puerto Riquenos - who are American citizens - don't have power.

Meanwhile the administration had fallen over backwards to help when Texas was hit a month earlier.

It's humiliating and wrong. We used to be better than this.

This is the view from El Morro.

Pic of the Day: The Guadalupe Mountains

One of the lesser known parks in the US National Park system is the beautiful and rugged Guadalupe Mountains National Park in West Texas. It's adjacent to Carlsbad Caverns National Park, sitting roughly equidistant between the cities of Carlsbad, NM, and El Paso.

What makes this area unique is that unlike most mountain ranges this was not created by tectonics -- it's the result of a reef formation in a shallow sea that used to cover much of the southwestern US.

This is the southwesternmost and tallest peak in the park -- the 8ooo foot El Capitan as seen from Highway 62.

Pic of the Day: Along the Mother Road