The time has come around again, the drive back to see family for the Christmas holiday. How repetitive life is sometimes…. Kanab, Utah is my halfway point. The ominous clouds dump rain, making my plan for an early morning hike before finishing the last five hours of the drive a little more treacherous. The rain…
Tag: a day in the life
The Tucson Barn
The barn was located inside a walled property, reminding me of a set up that people living in isolation would use. Anti-government folk and religious zealots, you know the type of people I am referring to. I enter the quiet community and find my barn accomodations quite comfortable, very Southwestern. Books on Native American history…
Back to Sabino for a 20 mile adventure
It’s a couple of weeks before Christmas. The morning air in Tucson has a definite desert chill to it. I turn up the heat in my truck as I make my way back to Sabino Canyon. Initially I wanted to just walk up the canyon road, then see how I felt before wagering about continuing…
The Mini Time Machine Museum of Miniatures
In times of uncertainty it is refreshing to have a place one can go to and escape your reality, if only for a fleeting moment. Surprisingly, the place for me is Tucson’s Mini Time Machine museum of Miniatures. Many probably think this is mainly for children, but the attention to detail, the time and patience…
Airstream Tucson
I leave work a little earlier than usual for a Friday, and get on the road that leads to Tucson. Two weeks before Christmas, and I love the winter desert vibe around the holidays. I find my Airstream for the weekend stored in the back lot of a stranger’s home. It’s my new favorite travel…
Hidden Valley
“I plan to finally go check out the Hidden Valley area.” “One of my favorite places in the park my friend.” It seems that only strangers call me “my friend” ironically. Out here in the high desert of Joshua Tree, I find that most people are solitary and isolated….all strangers yet everyone is friendly, just…
Taliesin West
and now for something I think you’ll really enjoy…. Home after the Thanksgiving holidays for a few weeks before heading back up to Utah again for Christmas. Time to enjoy chilly nights in the Sonoran desert, and sublime winter days of hiking and exploring the cities and towns of Arizona. I get started by doing…
The East Rim trail
It’s not quite 7 a.m. on this cold November day. The trailhead parking lot only has a park ranger vehicle with a gent smoking a cigarette inside the cab. I politely ask him if this is the start of the East Rim trail. He smiles and points to a marker a few feet away and…
ZMR
Driving through Zion National Park for the final time last year, exiting out through the East Entrance to the Park. Easily the least common way to get to the heart of Zion. Just after you pass the gates, a cluster of cabins sit perched on the edge of a hill overlooking a greenish pasture full…
Split Rock
I find myself back in my own little utopia of the world, Joshua Tree. I believe this to be my fourth consecutive trip out here. Time to hike, meditate and immerse my soul in the cold, high desert. I let the randomness of thought guide my body towards new explorations. The Split Rock trail is…
Passage 41
I awake to freezing temperatures and a cloudless blue sky. Jacob’s Lake opens to serve horrid gas station coffee, but I take what fuel I can get as I head back out onto the Arizona Trail. Today I will walk Passage 41. More reminders of last year’s forest fire are to be found along this…
The Edgewater
I decide to return to my birth State for my birthday, which will mark the second time I’ve taken a flight in 2021. I was looking forward to a weekend in Seattle at the Edgewater Hotel. Who wouldn’t want to stay at the place infamous for the “mudshark incident” involving Led Zeppelin, as well as…