Looking southwest from our hotel room: Teal-domed Masjid Darus Sholah (left), 580 ft. Bukit Jenggawah hill (distant middle), and Jember Sport Garden Stadium (right). Mount Bromo is much taller ...

Jember & Rembangan

2025-09-27 0

Saturday (9/27): We arrived at Juanda Airport around 7:00 p.m. A driver and a tour guide picked us up, taking us to the JW Marriott […]

Stunning sunset over the Java Sea, on our Singapore Airlines flight to Surabaya.

Singapore

2025-09-22 0

My wife, Bernie, and I no longer exchange presents. We’re old. We have all we need. But last Christmas, in her card, I left a […]

A half mile of FR 95, on both sides of Bear Canyon, was closed in May, 2019, after flooding wiped out the crossing. I heard there was a bridge there, but I saw no bridge remains, of any kind, upstream of Quien Sabe Draw.

Quien Sabe Draw

2025-09-04 0

Quien Sabe Draw is a small canyon on the Mogollon Rim, between Turkey Pen Ridge and Fred Haught Ridge. Only 2½ miles long, Quien Sabe […]

Looking across Forest Road 4 and Telegraph Canyon, towards Picketpost Mountain.

Roadside Memorials #6

2025-08-24 0

Interstate 8 After exploring the Agua Caliente ghost town, we drove east from Dateland, towards Gila Bend, picking up the frontage road near Theba. (Because stopping […]

At the bottom of Sabino Canyon, looking up at the Aspen Trail #93 view point.

Marshall Peak Loop

2025-07-15 0

This week was our annual summer trip to Mount Lemmon. You could hike up from Tucson, but if you do you are much stronger hiker […]

I love the way the false hellebore / corn lily frames the pine needles.

Sandstone Canyon

2025-07-02 0

Sandstone Canyon is a short canyon that starts at Sandstone Tank, and ends only 2¼ miles later at West Leonard Canyon. Sandstone Canyon is dead […]