Mojave National Preserve III, National Park Service
Trip Date: March 20, 2019
This was the 3rd consecutive year we would venture into the Mojave. Bob and I had explored quite a bit the first trip and I was able to connect the dots to some of the places I had seen decades earlier when Ingrid, Gabe, and the kids celebrated, or “survived”, New Year’s Eve at Afton…
Saline Valley, Death Valley National Park
Trip Date: January 28, 2019
2019 it is; holy fuck. This is perhaps our fourth consecutive January trip; first heading out to Carrizo Plain, then the Panamints, a bit South of Saline, then 2 consecutive jaunts into the Mojave. We will return to the Mojave in a couple months but we want to get up into the New York Mountains…
Pinnacles National Park (Tom’s Retirement Party)
Trip Date: November 7, 2018
This was another in a series of retirement party trips; this one being for Tommy Two Tone. Tom was already back in his home town of San Luis Obispo so we wanted to camp somewhere sort of in between us and him. It was fun to search for options, although there were not that many…
Blue Lake, Modoc National Forest
Trip Date: November 1, 2018
My brother Mike and I have been dreaming of buying property (and a boat for that matter) for decades now. We came close to buying a very nice small, but modern, cabin outside Taylorsville off North Arm Road. It was a lot of money in about 2006 when we sat in the hot tub in…
Oregon Coast II
Trip Date: October 7, 2018
This was our second year working our way up the Oregon Coast, however, it technically was the first time we actually were on the Oregon coast. Last year, maybe because of nostalgia or just because you can never get enough California coast, or just to extend the whole process, we never left California, seeing Trinidad…
Obsidian Trip; Inyo National Forest
Above 7000 Feet, Forest, Hot Springs, Mountains, National Forest land, National Monument, National Park, River, Star Gazing, Wild Flowers, Wildlife
Trip Date: September 20, 2018
I don’t know why this is called the Obsidian trip and I am writing this story 4 years after the trip so all I have to go on are the photos. I don’t see any Obsidian in them and I don’t know why we wouldn’t have camped closer to the Obsidian, or right at it…