Colton Crater: It may not look like it, but that is an 800 ft. climb to the right.

Colton Crater

2016-09-29 2

I noticed Colton Crater when I was out here last year, hiking SP Crater. Whereas SP Crater is tall, steep and slippery with volcanic rock […]

North Mountain, Phoenix Mountains Preserve

North Mountain

2016-09-19 0

I don’t normally blog about short, local, maintenance hikes. That would be boring: “Yeah, I hiked up Camelback. Again.” Well, except Camelback is a zoo, […]

No idea what this is, other than beautiful.

Tour de Arizona

2016-08-22 0

We had family in town this week. With one exception, they had never really experienced Arizona. So, we did some Phoenix tourist things that even […]

The #60 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Honda-powered Ligier JS-P2 prototype has the most beautiful paint job I've ever seen. Except it's not paint: It's an applique!

Road America

2016-08-07 0

The IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship was the main event of me & my wife’s trip to Wisconsin. I can’t just go somewhere: I have to […]

One of about a dozen murals in downtown Plymouth.

Plymouth, WI

2016-08-03 0

After walking around the east side of Plymouth yesterday, today I explored the west side. After checking out some train graffiti at the old depot, […]

Memorial bench on bike path along WI-23.

Plymouth, WI

2016-08-02 0

A good way to learn any area is to bike it. You sense more on a bicycle than you do speeding by in a car. […]