Mojave National Preserve IV
Trip Date: April 11, 2022
I believe this trip may have been born at a family gathering at the American River last Fall, although it seemed to be upon us all of a sudden. I was just coming off the ball joint failure on the Tundra so I was a little reluctant to drive down, so I hopped in with…
Indian Valley Reservoir, BLM; The Truck Goes Boom
Trip Date: March 7, 2022
Ken had put out the word that it was time to get away, even for a night or two at a nearby destination. As it was still early in the year, we went through our list of close by destinations and settled on Walker Ridge, off Highway 20, heading towards the South end of Indian…
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…
Mojave National Preserve I
Trip Date: January 9, 2017
A January Winter trip has become somewhat of a tradition these last few years. I believe it was perhaps January 0f 2014 Bob, Steve, and I wentto Carrizo Plain National Monument for our first big winter trip. The following year, Tom joined us to go to Red Rock Canyon State Park. January of 2016, Bob,…