I arrived in the Slab City area just before noon, after jumping my van over some odd part of the road that acted as a launching pad. I figured, in that split second, that the van was a goner when it touched ground again. Though everything flew around the back...
Holy cow, this body of water is huge! I don’t know what I was expecting, but not a real sea in the middle of the desert… you could not see the other side unless it was the mountains to the north. To all other sides, it appeared as if it...
Just south of Holloman Air Force Base (between the base and White Sands Ntnl Monument), are a few small lagoons which the AFB allow the public to come and bird-watch and/or camp. This is where I happened to pull into last night about an hour before the sun set, and...
I rolled into Alamogordo, NM late this morning looking for access the the Lincoln National Forest so I could setup camp. The first road that I thought would allow me access was fenced and locked. Though I could hike or bike in I could not drive. I then accessed the...
The days are getting more and more gratifying the longer I am out. This morning i woke from my hot-springs camping and got moving south soon after a eggs and toast breakfast. I figured that I could make it to my next scheduled stop (Manzanar War Relocation Center) and hang...
Since I am ahead of schedule, last night I decided to turn my alarm off and sleep in as I was not going to leave this spot on the side of the road until after my afternoon workload is complete. So I got going around 9am with coffee, breakfast, and...
We learned something new today, and that was that just down the road, less than 40 miles, is the oldest and largest nonprofit Sanctuary in the US dedicated exclusively to rescuing captive exotic and endangered large carnivores and it is open to the public! Even better, they are open until...
After the 12 hours of driving, arriving in the park well after sunset, we found a place to park for the night. At 5:30am the alarm woke us just before the sun began to peak over and shine onto the Tetons. We all jumped out to snap some photos before...
I have hiked into the Homestead Meadows a few times, usually by the Lion’s Gultch trail. This past Monday, Conor and I chose to hike in from the Northern side following a short trail and the dirt access roads to the homesteads. On paper, this appeared to be an easier...
