"Looks like we'll be renting an apartment," says Travis. "Interest rates are mighty high right now."

Water can carry ships, flood a city and, when pressurized, cut through stone like a child's finger through a piece of cake.

The elderly woman praying a rosary in the front pew of church? Her daughter is married to Ernest Hemingway’s son. The district judge who serves on the pastoral council? He was General Schwarzkopf’s driver during the first Iraq war.