Twelve hours alone in your car gives one plenty of time to reflect. HC takes his first extended holiday in 2025 with a road trip from the sonoran desert to the mojave desert along the scenic route 395. Going along at a leisurely pace, HC day dreams of the future when his whole life will…
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The Elk of Christopher Creek
Below the Mogollon Rim lies the sleepy cabin community of Christopher Creek. After a day of fishing and exploring, H.C. returns to his creekside cabin to enjoy the cooler summertime temperatures and slow nature of life that is to be found here. He had heard about the elk that wander around here, trimming people’s grass…
Back to Greer, time at Lost Resorts
The sun should wake up soon, but for now the man works in the darkness as he prepares to head up to the White Mountains for the Holiday weekend. Fishing gear and beer are carefully packed into the car, and the long drive begins. Nothing changes in Greer. It’s the reason the man finds such…
more of Bryce Canyon hiking after a snowstorm, part 2
The twinkling of snow on a bare branch. A bird rests, then flutters away, and a smattering of snow falls to the ground. I listen intently to the silence. Fire in my lungs, spasms up and down the legs. Out here is where I need to lay down, rest, forever. I keep on walking until…
The Mirror Overlook
A few years ago I first passed the East Zion Resort and thought it would be a fun place to have a base camp while exploring new areas of Southern Utah. The small town of Orderville really has nothing else. Last year on my trek to see family for Thanksgiving, I booked a tiny mirror…
The Airplane Graveyard in Tucson
Ominous skies all around us, storms dropping massive amounts of rain in desert valleys. CBug and I going to the Pima Air & Space museum in Tucson to hopefully see the history of airplanes around the world, both commercial and military, as long as the weather doesn’t shut our trip down. This is my second…
Fish Creek
In the year of 2013 I flew to Phoenix to see Eddie Vedder. Before the concert I took a drive into the Sonoran desert without really knowing where I was going. This was my first time exploring the Fish Creek area, but I had only dipped my toe into all the spectacle and wonder this…
Dragoon
Along the I-10, between Tucson and the New Mexico border is a unique formation of boulders called Dragoon. Over the years I’ve passed this place while going to other destinations, but on the first weekend of November decided to explore this area with CBug. We started from our stay at the Triangle T ranch, and…
Tombstone
Took my nephew out to Tombstone for a weekend to show him the “real” Wild West. Although there are plenty of cheesy and touristy things to see and do in town, it is also a very realistic depiction of life in The West a century or so ago. Complete with street gunfights, whores gambling and…
Alien presence in Joshua Tree
After so many years of going to Joshua Tree for a few days of relaxation and a reset of my mind, I had an alien encounter from the skies above. I start with a sound bath at the Integratron, which always puts me in an extra-terrestrial frame of mind. I pull up to my homestead…
Ryan Mountain
It has now been eight consecutive years that I have been returning to Joshua Tree. The magic of the area has not diminished, only my energy has decreased. I now try to just do one hike in the Park, with Ryan Mountain being what I selected this time around. High clouds and cool Fall temperatures…
Crown King
Over twenty plus years have I driven past the exit sign for Crown King without giving it much thought, as there is nothing in the surrounding area but a vast desert with mountains in the distance. Recently I learned that there actually is an unincorporated community that lives in the mountains, if one is willing…