I Like Beer
Johnny Cash has always been my favorite musician. My earliest musical memory is being seven years old, driving on North Avenue, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to […]
Arizona
Desert Park-Windgate Pass-Gateway Loop
With a short week due to being in Las Vegas last week, and Mission Viejo for Christmas, and working on the subsequent Valley of Fire […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #5 – Xmas Fun!
First, let me say that the SpyTec A118C dashcam is a heaving pile of shit. I have had nothing but problems with my crappy SpyTec […]
Dixie Mountain Loop
With the holidays coming up, I knew I wouldn’t have any time to do a long, out of town, hike, let alone the associated triplog, […]
Granite Mountain Hotshots Memorial State Park
Three and a half years ago, I hiked from Glen Oaks to Hill 6276, overlooking Wilhoit. I was concerned about wildfire as, at the time, […]
Amtrak Sunset Limited / Agua Caliente Rd.
Today was another expedition I’ve had gestating for awhile. (Almost two years, since Stoic and I visited the rock art at the Sundad ghost town.) I […]
Phoenix Asshole Drivers #4
More incidents of Phoenix drivers being assholes, including a left turn across six lanes, another appearance by Sergeant Halftrack and his Winnebago, and running a […]
Smith Brothers Mine
In my constant search for new things to check out, where I won’t have to fight hordes of perfume-reeking, boombox blasting, spandex-stretching weekend warriors, I […]
West Fork of Oak Creek
My cousin Ann was in Arizona for a few days, doing the tourist thing. My wife & I met Ann up in Sedona, where another […]
Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway
Today was the fourth of my biannual South Mountain Freeway / Loop 202 survey hikes, that I started in April, 2015. The basic concept is […]