Maybe I've been suckered into the "Freedom of the Open Road" syndrome of full time RVers: that nervous affliction that drives them relentlessly onward...   more »

There was another wholesomeness that I have long appreciated. In the Southwest "history" and museums glorify gunslingers...   more »

He was half-Indian, had done a lot of serious camping in his day, and had lived many years in Alaska in a backwoods cabin. It became a nightly habit to walk down there every night.    more »

It's the kickoff of summer. And if $4 gasoline wasn't stifling business enough in the summer-tourist enclave of Show Low, AZ, there was a freak snowstorm, as well.   more »

Nobody ever accused me of being a tree hugger. But I was doing it now so I could judge the danger of the high winds.   more »

To my sense of touch it was more intensely pleasurable than the riot of desert wildflowers was to my eye, this spring.   more »

When a visual sybarite thinks of Northern Arizona he probably thinks of the Grand Canyon, the Meteor Crater, Petrified Forest, etc. Maybe he should think of clouds.   more »

Here the Mogollon Rim is a misnomer. There is no vertical discontinuity to ogle. The Rim is merely a mathematical concept...   more »

For years it used to frustrate me that I knew nothing of northern Arizona. But when the new world order of Gasoline began, I saw my opportunity to stay in the southwestern states all year.    more »

I have been to the White Mountains of Arizona before, and didn't care for them. But why?    more »

Much to my surprise the quiet of the forest gave way suddenly to a roaring wind at the edge of a cliff, from which you can see so much of western New Mexico.    more »

The old fort had many missions. Originally it was for fighting Apaches. It had served as a POW camp for Germans during WWII.    more »

Naturally I got the old questions about camping, boondocking and the Bogeyman. It is amazing how credulous people are about mere hearsay.   more »

You don't have to be a bicycle enthusiast to enjoy some of it, no more than you have to be a specialist to enjoy an art fair, a rodeo, or a blues festival.   more »

He was proudest of the creek running again even though the winter had been dry; with fewer trees and more grass...   more »