Day 524 – (Desert Roadtrip Part 1) – Driving the Mojave Desert to Las Vegas

3 years ago

  "We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I…

Day 464 – The city of Joshua Tree, CA, and the high desert.

3 years ago

  We stayed in the Joshua Tree area for two months, the first month in a house in Yucca Valley,…

Day 464 – Joshua Tree National Park

4 years ago

  Two hours east of San Bernardino through Cabazon (where the concrete dinosaurs in Pee-Wee's Big Adventure live), past Palm…

Day 444 – Tucson, AZ – Discovering the ancient saguaro cactus.

4 years ago

  Tucson sits about 60 miles north of the Mexico boarder in Arizona between California and New Mexico. This area…

Day 411 – South Padre Island, TX – Gulf Coast Paradise

4 years ago

  After several long spurts of driving and active sight seeing, we were ready for a brief repose. I had…

Day 405 – San Antonio, Texas – Looking for the basement of the Alamo.

4 years ago

  It wasn't until 1691 that Spanish explorers first met the Payaya Indians of the San Antonio River Valley. It…

Day 394 – Austin, Texas – In search of TPS reports and high weirdness

4 years ago

  Austin is a city I've always wanted to visit. I kind of thought I might have waited too long…

Day 393 – Driving from Arkansas to Texas

4 years ago

  Our next stop was Austin, Texas, a 7.5 hour drive from Hot Springs, so we decided to break the…

Day 394 – Hot Springs National Park

4 years ago

  For more than 8000 years, native people had been visiting the area for the healing powers of the springs…

Day 393 – Graceland – The Home of Elvis Presley

4 years ago

"I'm going to Graceland For reasons I cannot explain There's some part of me wants to see Graceland" - Paul…

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Where am I now?

Eugene, OR

(We’ve reached the end of our trip.  Time to settle down for a bit and recharge our batteries and our bank accounts.  It’s been a good run.  Eugene had the right kind of vibe we were looking for.  Good people.  A good size.  Affordable.  We’re going to give it a go here.  But we’re open to what comes.)

 

Next up:

Nowhere for the moment

(For the first time in three years we don’t have the next adventure planned out.  That’s going to be a strange reality to adjust to.)