View Article  Two Travelers, Two Different Trails
They used to dismiss the full time RV lifestyle with a condescending smirk--I was their licensed lunatic, you know.   more »
View Article  Advice to Bicycle Tourers
As he pedalled away I wondered if he would actually do it. My advice would have cost him an entire day. Vacationers haven't the foggiest notion how to really travel.    more »
View Article  A Photographic Deficiency
It's not a pretty photo, but I don't understand why everything in nature is supposed to be pretty.   more »
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View Article  A Windmill from Argentina
I believe that to intensify an aesthetic experience we must take something away, because we can not focus on too many things at once.    more »
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View Article  Idyll (ic) Days in Patagonia
I don't know how Patagonia got its name. The only time I've ever paid any attention to the name was a book mentioned in William James's "Varieties of Religious Experience."   more »
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View Article  Pilgrimage to Patagonia
Why do I love Patagonia when it is of full of... For some reason I overlook all of that.   more »
View Article  A Trail of RV Detritus, Part II
Full time RVers are well-traveled compared to the average person. But think how well traveled all this junk is.    more »
View Article  Confederates in the Cactus
..a lad waved the bonnie blue flag with great enthusiasm. Some kind of uniform and badge was right behind him.    more »
View Article  Home on the High Chaparral
Full time RVers are often asked whether they have found 'that perfect place' where they will settle down.    more »
View Article  The Vast Wasteland at a Book Superstore
...a disease that can only be cured by walking outdoors, where I can look off at a distance and think.    more »
View Article  A Peek at Picacho
When you come to an overlooked location like this, surprises are usually on the upside.   more »
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View Article  Picacho Peak
And what a show! Miles of purple sidewalks squeezing the frontage road from both sides.    more »
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View Article  2% Inflation and Full Time RVers
It doesn't matter how unfair this is to people who live on interest. All that matters is that the average working slug be suckered into borrowing and spending money   more »
View Article  Juxtapositions in the Desert Landscape
Brilliance surrounded by normalcy and mundaneness. Rocks share this with human history.   more »
View Article  Geology Grinned
...but on one steep hill side they were so resplendent that I finally had to gasp--though not for the color alone.    more »
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View Article  The Night of the Dark Headlights
For the billions of tax dollars being sucked into the department of "Homeland Defense," why wasn't somebody patrolling a well known smuggling route?    more »