“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive. …” And suddenly there was a terrible…
Day 464 – The city of Joshua Tree, CA, and the high desert.
April 22, 2021
We stayed in the Joshua Tree area for two months, the first month in a house in Yucca Valley, the larger town to the west, and a month in a small house a couple of blocks from the heart…
Day 464 – Joshua Tree National Park
April 15, 2021
Two hours east of San Bernardino through Cabazon (where the concrete dinosaurs in Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure live), past Palm Springs and a series of steep climbs up into the Mojave desert you arrive in a magical landscape that’s as…
Day 444 – Tucson, AZ – Discovering the ancient saguaro cactus.
January 16, 2021
Tucson sits about 60 miles north of the Mexico boarder in Arizona between California and New Mexico. This area has been populated by native people for over 12,000 years. The first European settlement happened in 1700 when the Spanish…
Day 411 – South Padre Island, TX – Gulf Coast Paradise
December 15, 2020
After several long spurts of driving and active sight seeing, we were ready for a brief repose. I had packed for a beach adventure a year and a half earlier and had been carrying it with me without ever…
Day 405 – San Antonio, Texas – Looking for the basement of the Alamo.
November 20, 2020
It wasn’t until 1691 that Spanish explorers first met the Payaya Indians of the San Antonio River Valley. It was June 13, the feast day of Saint Anthony, and so they named the area San Antonio. In 1716, to…
Day 394 – Austin, Texas – In search of TPS reports and high weirdness
November 17, 2020
Austin is a city I’ve always wanted to visit. I kind of thought I might have waited too long and all the tech hipsters might have drove the prices up and all the cool places might be replaced by…
Day 393 – Driving from Arkansas to Texas
November 13, 2020
Our next stop was Austin, Texas, a 7.5 hour drive from Hot Springs, so we decided to break the drive up into two days and head through Shreveport, Louisiana which added another hour to the drive. We wanted some…
Day 394 – Hot Springs National Park
November 12, 2020
For more than 8000 years, native people had been visiting the area for the healing powers of the springs located in present day Hot Springs, Arkansas. Many tribes had come together to share the springs agreeing to put aside…
Day 393 – Graceland – The Home of Elvis Presley
November 9, 2020
“I’m going to Graceland For reasons I cannot explain There’s some part of me wants to see Graceland” – Paul Simon Graceland After Elvis Presley’s first house purchased in 1956 became too overrun with fans outside, he gave his…