Before arriving at the next week’s camping location, I dropped into Tonto National Monument (my 62nd National Park) which houses two Salado-style cliff dwellings from 700 years ago. It took a half-mile paved hike up the side if the hillside before getting the dwelling but once there the cool air...
We spent this past week boondocking not far outside of Bowie, Arizona at Indian Bread Rocks which has turned out to be another great addition to my list of boondocking locations here in the south west. This area is simply large rock formations within the Dos Cabezas Mountains Wilderness and...
A few years back I visited the Chiricahua National Monument for a hike while staying at a RV park in Wilcox, AZ. Also planned that day was to visit Fort Bowie just up the mountain but the 8 miles of washboard dirt road scared me away. I had even purchased...
I have spent this past week boondocking not far out of Tombstone, Arizona. Even though I have been in this area multiple times in recent years, it has become something of a tradition to pop in here for at least one week when I am in Southern Arizona. This year...
I have visited the San Pedro National Conservation Area once before in 2011 during my first adventures in boondocking thanks to the McCarrell’s offering up their land to me back then. Since then I have been in the area just about every winter, but have only just decided to revisit...
I must preface this post with the truth that I left my camera back at camp, so I am using the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Instagram pictures in place of my lack there of. On my final full day in the Tucson area I visited the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum which is...
Even though I have already visited Saguaro National Park in early 2011 I tend to visit a National Park when camped nearby one, no matter if I already have . This week my “home” is in Gilbert Ray Campground just outside the National Park boundary. Yep, you heard right, paid camping...
Searching for some information online about Darby Wells turned up little other than blog posts from other’s who have camped here. One thing that did pop up as out of the ordinary was the Find A Grave website which mentioned a cemetery just down the road from where I am...
It is funny how I go into an area with huge misconceptions of what it will be. I had always figured that Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument had one (alright, maybe a few) massive Organ Pipe Cactus and some land around it. I was hoping to gawk at this one...
Ajo (Ah-Hoe) Arizona – or just outside of Ajo – at Darby Wells BLM, is where I have moved since Mittry Lake. The 160+ mile drive is the furthest I have moved in a single day since January 1st when I made the drive from Northern California to Borrego Springs...
