Desert Views
It was either November or December, I can't recall for sure, but the temperature was twenty degrees and snow was...
hiking
Lenox Crater. Cinder Hills. Alone.
I barely remember the Cinder Hills or Lenox Crater. I think I was outside of Flagstaff. Yes, that sounds familiar....
Inspiration Point
I haven't seen California this lush and green in....forever. I think the plane has taken a detour and I've been...
Organ Pipe’s Desert view under Jedi steps
Darkness is quickly enveloping the desert landscape as the old Jedi pours the last of the moonshine down his parched...
Soldiers trail
I rise in the woods of a September morning to the sounds of crackling fires and bluegrass banjo's being tuned....
leaving despair in Sycamore Canyon
4.18.17 I had just returned to work after a few days in Mexico City, and I was excited to...
The Mickelson Trail
It was a beautiful Autumn morning as I woke up in Deadwood, on the day of the 46th year since...
Saguaro bones along the Palo Verde trail
Scattered Saguaro cacti bones are strewn along the Palo Verde trail. The wanderer slowly steps over the sacred remains of...
Mount Rushmore
It was October, still a little over a month before the USA Presidential election, and I was foolishly thinking that...
Scheurman mountain trail in the Sedona Vortex
Sedona is affectionately called "The Vortex", due to many people believing it is the center of the Universe, or at...
shuffling through the volcanic ash of Sunset Crater
Just outside of Flagstaff, Arizona, there is a protected area known as Sunset Crater. The ground is covered in soft...
alone on Ajo Mountain
Across the desolate highway is a dirt road with a faded sign that leads to Ajo Mountain. The wanderer...