Homer the Jackalope
Classic Title
Homer's Influence
Welcome to my travel blog about Homer the Jackalope, who has traveled with me since 2004, which now makes 22 years.
He has been photographed with Americans from all walks of life and foreign visitors from such countries as China, Mexico, the Netherlands, France, Kuwait, Germany, Wales, Argentina, France, Kenya and other countries.
Homer is from Little America in Wyoming and someday may travel to the Jackalope Days Festival in Douglas, Wyoming and the Jackalope Jamboree in Pendleton, Oregon and maybe attend an Odessa Jackalope Hockey game in Texas.
Now discover a Jackalope that has traveled across America, been in a biplane, traveled on trains, and was in a hot air balloon. Homer the Jackalope definitely gets around.
This is where curiosity meets folklore and leaves a trail of smiles across America.
Weed, New Mexico
Homer attended the famous 2025 Bluegrass Festival and the audience sang Happy Birthday to it's first Jackalope. Such an honor!
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Christmas in Rockport
Kidnapped!
Friends in Cloudcroft, NM
Homer's Return
Homer's first visit back to Little America, Wyoming since 2004, where I found him.
He was speechless in 2023 during our visit.
Plymouth Rock
Historic Ride
Homer made history when he rode in this biplane in Rockport, Texas 2025. It was a fantastic ride as we flew over Aransas Bay and Copano Bay, making a circle above the historic Fulton Mansion.
Hot Air Balloon Ride
Raton, New Mexico 2018. She was more than enthusiastic when she gave her first ride to a Jackalope, waving Homer down to the crowd below when we were airborne.
Fulton Mansion Snow!
Homer was there when snowed in 2017 and guess who showed up?
Silverton, Colorado
Homer visiting a cousin in Colorado, 2022
Halloween Characters
Homer's Second Home!
Mountain View, AR
A first visit to the Ozark Folk Center where we discovered fantastic bluegrass music.
Oyesterfest Parade 2025
rRockport, Texas near the Fulton Mansion
Cloudcroft, NM Theater
Jackalope Country
A great discovery in Dubois, Wyoming. Two giant jackalopes you can sit on.
Curiousity in a Parking Lot
Jackalope Tribe Members
Elegant Title
A Fine Tattoo
A camper in Mount Magazine State Park in Arkansas shared her tattoo with me. 2022
I met a woman at a gas station near Terlingua who raised up her dress and showed me her beautiful and unique Jackalope tattoo. 2022
Lincoln National Forest
I met a lot of people camping in New Mexico, many who posed with Homer over the years. I get a hoot out of introducing Homer to foreign visitor who send pictures of Homer back to their family and friends back in their home country.
Happy Terlingua Ladies
I shared Homer with these two beautiful women I met in Ghost Town in Terlingua, Texas. 2018
Brownwood, Texas
Cimarron, NM
Where's the Guinness Beer?
Jack London
I stopped by his home in California. He was quite the adventurer and writer.
Niagara Falls, NY
I Bucket list checkmark in 2022. Some Japanese tourists were totally surprised to see a Jackalope.
Community Service Photo Op
We paid a visit to a small fire station in North Carolina as I was traveling. Nice firemen!
Smokey Mountains
A great trip out of Bryson City, North Carolina
Port Isabel, Texas
Covid Masks, 2021
Silverton, Colorado
What a great carving in a hotel in Silverton.
Paris, Arkansas
Bucket List in NM
My grandfather drove an ambulance in World War I.
Oysterfest 2024, Fulton, TX
Santa Claus in Rockport 2025
Mountain View, Ark
Bigfoot culture is everywhere!
Galveston, TX 2024
Eureka Springs, AR 2025
An Andrew Carnegie Library that features a fireplace in a 115 year old building that was built in 1910
Kingsville, Texas
We toured on of America's historic ranches in America. I highly recommend it to everyone and go to the annual ranch breakfast in November.
Austin, Texas
Home of the University of Texas and the state capitol.
Whooping Cranes
The endangered whooping cranes fly from Canada to the Aransas Wildlife Refuge for the winter near Rockport. There is a new visitor center at the refuge. which is very impressive.
Hare Cut?
Sign of the Times, 2022
The End
Just kidding!!!
Home has traveled from Texas to Niagara Fall, to the Redwood Forest, to Plymouth Rock, to Eeyore's Birthday in Austin, to Terlingua and the Appalachian Trail and so many campgrounds and states over 22 years.
More pictures to come!
Happy Trails!
Richard and Homer
January 2026
