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…
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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…
Unincorporated Greer
Memorial Day weekend is upon us. Time to get out of the heat and up into the White Mountains of Eastern Arizona. I head back to my new favorite summer location, the unincorporated township of Greer. I have only one hiking goal for the long weekend. Other than that, I just enjoy sitting in the…
Wyoming Winter Time Lapses
In the air of night, breathing is the only sound of life as snow falls from above. Time pulls down my spirit. My Body. My will to live. One foot in front of the other. I have no choice, pre-determined I keep walking towards an unknown goal.
Time with quails & coyotes in Joshua Tree
As 2021 comes closer to its inevitable end, I find myself back in Joshua Tree. Halloween weekend it is as I rumble up to the door of the homestead I’ll be staying in over the next couple of days. A wave of calm rushes over me. No set schedule out here. I wander into the…
Sabino views
Monsoon season has arrived in a glorious, tumultuous rage here in the desert Southwest. Epic thunderstorms have turned brown landscapes into a lush sanctuary, but they have also destroyed towns and taken lives of both man and beast. I find a place where I can hopefully try to manipulate time to witness the raw power…
Colossal Cave Mountain Park
Time to get down in the dirt, as some like to say. Camping in January in the Sonoran desert. Most creatures are still deep within their burrows waiting for warmer temperatures to arrive, and the ones that stay topside during these cooler times are the ones you hope to see. The skies are full of…
Magic on the Rim
Winter was knocking on the door in late October. I knew that my opportunities to camp on the Rim before the snow flies were diminishing. Over the past few weeks as I have been exploring the Mogollon Rim area, one particular spot called to my soul. An outcropping of stones that jutted outward over the…
Cliff dwellers
I’ve been home from Alaska for almost a whole week. Having successfully survived traveling extensively during a pandemic, I felt more confident trying to resume my normal exploratory routine going forward, and so I scrambled trying to find something to do last minute for the upcoming Labor Day weekend. After some blood, sweat and tears…
Losing time around Sasabe
You lose the structure of time out here on the ranch. The horses don’t recognize 6 a.m. as time for breakfast, nor do the owls start hunting at 8 p.m. Time is replaced with a more intimate feeling, one that requires you to listen intently to your body, and your soul if you believe in…
Borrego Springs
I step out of the vintage trailer and over to the tiki bar, grab a cold Guinness and marvel at the sky. Two different cloud formations are in battle above me, creating an end of the world aura out here in Borrego Springs. I sit and feel the world turn.Stillness is almost palpable out here….